$25B+ of verifiable past performance — and a methodology that maps to RFP § 4.4 line by line.

Multi-year senior workforce-management and strategic-planning engagement for USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service International Services. The HSG/Rumik team authored the agency-wide Ideal Workforce Composition Study (multi-year strategic plan recommending FSO scaling from 38 to 70 across five regions, with stage-gated implementation through 2025), the 5-year IS Succession Management Plan (mission-critical post identification, time-in-class analysis, mandatory-retirement modeling, language-training pathway design), and country-level office-placement justifications including the Ho Chi Minh City Office Justification (city-level economic analysis anchored to bilateral trade flows, sector dynamics, and concrete staffing recommendations — a direct shape-analog to St. Petersburg's 2014 Grow Smarter refresh). Position-classification work covers overseas operations in Mexico, Panama, and Guatemala. All executed-PPQ ratings: Exceptional. Three sample work products on file at the proposal-companion portal.

• All executed-PPQ ratings: Exceptional (Sheetal Patel, Rumik)
• Three federal-grade work samples on file: Ho Chi Minh City Office Justification (city-level economic analysis), Ideal Workforce Composition Study (multi-year strategic plan, 234 paragraphs / 50 tables), Succession Management Plan (5-year, 635 paragraphs / 44 tables)
• Multi-year strategic-planning architecture directly analogous to St. Petersburg 2014 Grow Smarter refresh — agency-wide vision, regional structure, post-by-post staffing, stage-gated implementation
• Stakeholder discovery + structured-interview protocols + synthesis methodology — same disciplines required by RFP § 4.4
• Multi-country coverage (Mexico, Panama, Guatemala) demonstrates federal multi-jurisdictional engagement at scale

Mr. Latner's post-USDA principal practice — formalized as the Comprehensive Industry Strategic Plan (CISP) and Results-Oriented Management (ROM) methodology — converting "activity-based" market-development organizations into "strategy-based" target-industry strategies with quantitative performance measures linked to USDA Unified Export Strategy (UES) funding optimization. Six named client engagements: U.S. Livestock Genetics Export (USLGE) and American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) — comprehensive market assessments and target-market prioritization; Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC) — operational roadmaps, ROM frameworks, and federal-grant compliance protocols for Native American agricultural-producer market development; Leather Industries of America (LIA) and U.S. Hide, Skin and Leather Association (USHSLA) — pre-merger strategic alignment of two distinct trade associations into a unified industry strategic plan, consolidating fragmented supply-chain narratives into a single cohesive economic strategy and laying the groundwork for the formation of the Leather and Hide Council of America (LHCA); LHCA — Real Leather. Stay Different. (RLSD) global communications and branding framework, plus the U.S. Origin Kite Mark certification system using environmental footprinting, LCA data, and traceability metrics. The LIA / USHSLA → LHCA work is direct cluster-formation past performance.

• CISP / ROM methodology — formalized framework for converting "activity-based" → "strategy-based" target-industry organizations with quantitative performance linkage
• USLGE + AFIA: comprehensive market assessments + target-market prioritization frameworks (firm-led target-industry analysis)
• LIA + USHSLA → LHCA cluster consolidation: pre-merger strategic alignment + unified strategic plan (literal industry-cluster formation case)
• LHCA Real Leather. Stay Different. + U.S. Origin Kite Mark — global communications + ESG / sustainability certification framework
• IAC: federal-grant-compliance ROM framework for Native American agricultural producers (public-sector capacity-building)
• Multi-engagement portfolio across the past decade — substantially in-window (2014 origin, primarily 2016–present)

As Cortland Chief Economist and voting Investment-Committee member (2017–2023), Mr. Dillman built the firm's market-research capability essentially from the ground up — a Stata-based system integrating proprietary data with public economic and multifamily data, applying vector autoregression (VAR) for macro–real-estate dynamics, regime-switching models for cyclical inflection points, logistic regression for probabilistic event modeling, and machine-learning methods including boosting and neural networks. The system produced regularly-updated, scenario-conditioned submarket-level time-series forecasts for rent growth, vacancy, cap rates, unit values, and IRRs that fed directly into underwriting templates and Investment-Committee materials. He additionally developed Cortland's "Stage Zero" property-level proforma engine — a meaningful methodological advance over standard backward-looking comp-set practice — and a submarket-selection scoring algorithm integrating replacement-cost, supply-pipeline, vacancy-trajectory, and rent-momentum inputs. His research directly underpinned $700M+ in equity raised from institutional and HNW investors for Cortland's $1.25B acquisition of PURE Multifamily, a publicly-traded REIT.

• Executed PPQ from Cortland CIO (May 5, 2026): 7 Exceptional + 2 Very Good ratings; "strongly recommend"; verification authorized
• $700M+ equity raised — "Brad's proprietary market forecasts, submarket selection framework, and economic thesis formed the analytical backbone of the investment case presented to capital partners." (Mike Altman, CIO)
• Voting member, Cortland Investment Committee — "active participant in deal-level and portfolio-level capital-allocation decisions." (Mike Altman, CIO)
• Stage Zero property-level proforma engine — "a meaningful methodological advance relative to standard industry underwriting practice." (Mike Altman, CIO)
• Successful market calls during tenure: post-COVID rent surge (counter to prevailing 2020 sentiment); return of real long-term yields after 2022 Fed tightening; 10-year Treasury peak with 2018 midterms

Strategic organizational-design engagement for USDA Foreign Agricultural Service — the federal agency Mr. House served for 38 years, including as Minister-Counselor in Brussels and Beijing. The work covers external-environment assessment, target-mission analysis, and recommendations for resource alignment. The engagement is a direct analog to RFP 26-157's requirement for evaluating the relevance and performance of an existing strategic framework (the 2014 Grow Smarter Initiative) and recommending an updated framework grounded in current data and stakeholder input.

• External-environment assessment + target-mission analysis (direct Grow Smarter Initiative analog)
• Resource-alignment recommendations for federal agency at scale
• Authored and supervised by Mr. House — drawing on 38-year FAS service
• PPQ on file (Sheetal Patel)

As RPM Living Chief Economist, Mr. Dillman developed the firm's economic and multifamily forecasting system and machine-learning models for the propagation of asset-level trends — collection rates, rent-skip propensity, and line-item expenses — across 48,000+ multifamily assets. Asset-level scoring system integrating replacement-cost estimates and local supply-and-vacancy conditions. Diagnosed inefficiencies in existing analytics and data-warehouse processes, leading to personnel and budget changes for the data-architecture foundation. Represented the firm in media (Schwab Network, NPR Marketplace, Multifamily Dive) and at industry speaking engagements.

• 48,000+ multifamily-asset coverage with ML pipeline propagating asset-level trends portfolio-wide
• Asset-level scoring system integrating replacement-cost + supply / vacancy conditions
• Diagnosed data-architecture inefficiencies; led personnel and budget changes for the analytics foundation
• Media and speaking-engagement representation (Schwab Network, NPR Marketplace, Multifamily Dive)

Federal real-estate advisory and post-transaction support for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Enhanced-Use Lease portfolio. HSG contributed to project management, audit-of-construction compliance review, EULIS SharePoint platform development, and Consideration Report preparation. Demonstrates HSG's ability to translate quantitative real-estate and economic data into actionable, decision-ready guidance for federal program leadership.

• $2.64M total contract value across two task orders (FY22 + FY23)
• Federal real-estate advisory: VA EUL portfolio (multi-billion-dollar program scope)
• Project management + audit-of-construction compliance review + platform development + reporting
• PPQ on file (Michael McGuire)