The mechanics a government or institutional buyer needs before reading a word of the work: identifiers, registrations, insurance, terms, and who owns what when it's done. Where we're not yet ready for something, we say so.
For counties & cities · nonprofits · foundations · public programs · colleges & universities · federal buyers
The term that decides most purchases: a process evaluation asks whether your program is running the way it was designed and funded to run. An outcome evaluation asks whether it produced the change it promised. Most funders want one or both, tied to their own measures: tell us which and we scope to it.
Process evaluation (is the program running the way it was designed and funded to run) and outcome evaluation (did it produce the change it promised), tied to your funder's measures. For a state or federal pass-through program, that includes a statutorily required cycle, such as the five-year evaluation IMLS asks of state LSTA programs, or a retrospective and process assessment feeding your next state plan.
Satisfaction, stakeholder, and community surveys: designed, fielded (sent out and the responses collected), and analyzed. Instruments and interviews can be fielded in English or Spanish.
Needs assessments and environmental scans (a structured look at your community's needs and who else already serves them) that ground your next grant application, program accreditation self-study (ACEN, CCNE, NLN CNEA), or state plan in evidence. Our legal basis for handling student records under FERPA's audit and evaluation exception is written and checkable on our governance page.
We clean, analyze, visualize, and narrate the data you already have, whether that is a single spreadsheet or years of records across several programs and sites.
An evaluator on tap across your programs, with first-in-line scheduling.
Every source file behind a figure is retained with its cryptographic hash, so any number in a deliverable can be checked against the exact file it came from. Available as a standalone check on data or reporting you already have, not only inside a full evaluation.
We also deliver measurement and outcome data for a nursing or allied-health program working through an accreditation finding, as a teaming subcontractor to the prime that holds the client relationship.
If you administer a federally funded state program, such as a state library's LSTA five-year plan, we bring the same process-and-outcome evaluation discipline your funder's guidance calls for, a retrospective look at what happened, a process assessment of what is running now, and a framework you can carry into your next plan. What we can show you is the same method, proven on real public-sector figures in our published samples, and a straight answer on how it would apply to your program before you commit to anything.
If you are heading into an accreditation self-study or a program review and need a data partner rather than a prime, we can be named as your subcontractor or teaming partner. We sign your subcontractor agreement, flow down your funder's or prime's terms, and hand your contracting office our W-9, certifications, and insurance status directly. Our legal basis for handling student records under FERPA's audit and evaluation exception is already written and checkable on our governance page, and we would build from that same standard on your program.
If you fund a children's-services program and need to know whether it is working, we bring stakeholder surveys and outcome evaluation tied to your own measures, priced as one fixed number agreed before work starts. Our public demonstration sample is built on real figures from all eleven of Florida's children's-services special districts, so if your agency is one of them, you can check whether yours is in it before you ever talk to us. What you get is a published standard you can read line by line, and a direct answer on cost once we know your program's shape.
If your division runs a needs assessment on a fixed federal clock, tied to a state plan or a block grant application, we bring the same structured look at need and existing service that a statutory cycle requires, built to hold up against a federal reviewer's read. We are registered to sell directly to Florida state agencies through MyFloridaMarketPlace. What we can show you now is the same method, applied to real public records, in our published samples, and a direct answer on how it maps to your specific statute before you commit to a call.
If you are the prime on a proposal and need a small, veteran-owned analytics partner rather than a large firm, we can be named as your subcontractor. We sign your subcontractor agreement, flow down your funder's or prime's terms, and provide our identifiers, certifications, and insurance status directly to your client or contracting office, so you are not negotiating that from scratch. Our published samples and our governance page are the checkable standard we would bring to your team.
Entry engagements start at $5,000. That floor is where our two smallest engagements start: a stakeholder survey (service 02) and a reporting-capacity build (the kind of work in our capacity sample). A full program evaluation (service 01) is larger, separately scoped, and starts higher than the floor. Until coverage binds, engagements involving participant-level data are scoped and quoted now and signed once it binds; reporting-capacity work that does not touch participant-level data can start before then.
Email us the number you cannot exceed and the work you need done, and you'll get a straight yes or no on whether we can do that work under it, before you spend a call.
A short scope call returns one fixed price, agreed in writing before any work begins: not a range, no hourly meter, no invoice you didn't see coming.
Tell us what you need to prove and to whom. We ask the counting questions.
A written scope and a single price. If the scope grows, we re-scope in writing before the added work starts. We don't absorb it silently, and we don't invoice for it silently.
A funder-ready report and a findings briefing, on a timeline set in your written scope. Delivery is principal-led: one analyst, a deliberate two-project work-in-progress cap so quality holds. A signed scope plus deposit books your start date; interest alone does not. A date that is already booked is never displaced by a later retainer: first-in-line applies to work not yet scheduled.
We start with your stakeholders and your funder's requirements.
An evaluation plan you approve: the questions, the measures, the timeline.
Surveys, interviews, and records, analyzed against the plan.
A funder-ready report in plain language, with a findings briefing.
Our capability statement is written for a federal buyer: FAR and VAAR citations, SDVOSB sole source. If you're a county, city, or state buyer, those identifiers aren't yours. Here's the full set, grouped by who's buying.
This is the checklist a program manager or procurement office runs before reading a word of anyone's work. We'd rather you see the honest state of each item now than find a gap after you've committed to us.
We carry no insurance today: no general liability, no professional liability/E&O, no commercial auto, no cyber, no workers' comp, and no Florida workers'-comp exemption has been filed, because with no employees there is no coverage requirement to be exempt from. If your contract requires a certificate anyway, say so at scoping and we will resolve it before signature. No certificate of insurance can be issued. We are working to place professional liability and cyber coverage: as of 2026-08-25 nothing is bound. A professional liability quote is in hand and coverage binds before any engagement involving participant-level data begins. Our own rule is that we do not sign a client engagement involving participant-level data before coverage is bound. Ask us for the current status and you'll get the plain answer.
On file with Hillsborough County since 2026-06-26. A Florida Substitute W-9 was submitted 2026-08-18 and was completing IRS verification as of our last check. We can send a standard federal W-9 to any named payer directly.
In place of client references: published work samples you can read and check yourself (see Samples), every figure in them traceable to its own source. We will not offer you a reference we cannot stand behind, and we will not put anyone's name forward without that person's permission.
No standalone, client-ready scope-and-acceptance document exists yet. What does exist, still in draft and not yet attorney-reviewed: a standard that a deliverable failing its written scope doesn't invoice its milestone, a defined deliverable list, and a milestone schedule. Final acceptance language is set in your written scope.
Every engagement runs on one fixed price, agreed in writing before work starts, with no hourly meter. A deposit at signing books your start date; the balance is invoiced at delivery. Exact deposit percentage and invoicing terms are still being finalized company-wide. Tell us what your agency's terms require and we will confirm in writing what we can meet, before you commit to anything.
Data: at close, you choose: your data is returned or destroyed at your written direction, and we confirm in writing when it's done. Deliverables: our intent, still to be finalized in your written scope and not yet attorney-reviewed, is that you own the deliverables outright on full payment. You get the outputs, not our internal methods.
We haven't signed a client to a contract of any kind yet, so we have no standing position on this. Tell us what your agency requires: if you have a standard professional services agreement, we'll work from your paper; if you don't, we'll put our proposed terms in writing for your and your counsel's review, drawn up for your engagement rather than handed to you as boilerplate.
These are not held in advance by anyone; they are completed against the solicitation or contract that requires them, and we complete them on that clock. E-Verify enrollment is a same-day step we take when a contract requires it. The FS 287.135 scrutinized-companies affidavit and the FS 287.133 public-entity-crime sworn statement are signed and submitted with the bid they belong to, which is the only way they can be submitted. Level 2 background screening cannot be self-initiated at all: only the initiating agency can request it, so it follows an award rather than preceding one. Separately, we have already answered Florida's foreign-gift screening question (FS 286.101) as part of MFMP registration, a different and narrower statute.
Our published reports are machine-checked in code before shipping: document language and title metadata, a text alternative on every chart generated from that chart's own data, header-tagged data tables, and no skipped heading levels. Honest scope: these are mechanical checks we run ourselves. They are not a formal Section 508 or PDF/UA certification, and no independent validator runs against our output. Fuller accessibility remediation can be scoped on request. For an engagement serving people with disabilities directly, such as a Vocational Rehabilitation needs assessment, formal Section 508 or PDF/UA certification can be scoped as a named deliverable rather than an add-on.
See Identifiers & registrations above: Hillsborough County, Florida MFMP, and North Carolina eVP are done. No other county, city, or school-district portal yet.
The direct purchase paths above are how you buy today, and at this engagement size they are usually the shorter route. RSC holds no piggyback vehicle: no GSA Schedule, no state term contract, no NASPO ValuePoint, no Sourcewell, no OMNIA, no BPA, no IDIQ. Unlike the filings above, this is not something we can produce on request, so if your buying rules require riding an existing vehicle, say so early and we will tell you plainly whether a teaming route works or whether we are the wrong firm for that purchase.
Some of what follows is already how we operate on every engagement. Some of it lives in an engagement-letter draft that hasn't been reviewed by an attorney yet and is not a contract RSC has adopted. Each is labeled.
US-only, RSC-controlled systems. Identifiable participant data stays on a local machine we control, never in a third-party cloud, and is never submitted to any third-party AI service. Disk encryption at rest is not in place on that machine today, and we don't call it a control until it is. No subcontractor touches your data without your written consent naming that subcontractor. You're notified within 72 hours of any discovered unauthorized access. We conform to your funder's stricter standard, or we decline the engagement.
Our written rule for sensitive data: minimum-necessary fields, named-user access, small-cell suppression at n under 10 in anything leaving the organization, and destruction of working copies within 60 days of close. This is the rule we contract to. No real client dataset has been received, suppressed, or destroyed under it yet.
"RSC maintains a standing evaluator-independence rule: on any funded dollar we serve one side only, as the funder's evaluator or as the grantee's analytics partner, never both on the same money. Conflicts are screened at intake, disclosed in writing, and logged. Our fees are fixed and payable win or lose; we accept no contingent fees and no percentage of any award." We perform as an independent third party: we don't deliver, manage, or advise on the operation of the program we're evaluating, and hold no interest in any particular result.
If the scope grows, we re-scope in writing, with a new fee agreed before the added work starts. We don't absorb scope growth silently, and we don't invoice for it silently.
A 30-day clarification window at no charge after delivery. Verified factual errors in a delivered finding are corrected at no charge for 12 months after delivery. Remedies are limited to the terms of your signed engagement letter. If a deliverable genuinely falls short of the standard we promised, we redo the work at no cost or credit the full fee toward your next engagement, your choice.
We name a client, or describe an engagement publicly, only with that client's written permission, and permission is never a condition of anything else in the agreement.
We don't give legal advice, don't rule on whether a funder's own requirement is lawful, and don't certify compliance with FERPA, HIPAA, or 42 CFR Part 2. Where a funder's definition is in dispute, we state the conflict and its effect; the ruling belongs to the funder.
None are used unless your scope needs live-interviewer telephone fielding, which we don't self-perform. If that's needed, it's a named subcontractor, disclosed to you in advance, priced as a direct pass-through cost with no markup. Practically: a countywide, live-interviewer phone survey isn't something we can field solo today, so tell us early if that's part of what you need. If you are the prime and want to name RSC as your subcontractor, we sign your subcontractor agreement and flow down your funder's terms; see Direct purchase paths above for how that works.
Liability limits and governing law/venue are still being finalized with counsel. If you require a specific liability cap or governing law, raise it early in scoping. Our continuity plan for if the principal can't continue work is also still being finalized and has no named contact yet; ask for current status.
Our methodology is modeled on the analytic discipline of the Intelligence Community's ICD 203: never "compliant with" or "certified to." Our evaluation design is modeled on the federal program-evaluation standards in OMB M-20-12 and our survey design on OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 2. Neither is a claim of certification or audited conformance.
Email me directly. You get an answer from the analyst, not a form queue, including a straight answer on any item above that still says "not yet."