Cybersecurity Services for GovSmart

GovSmart's principal office at 715 Charlton Avenue in Charlottesville, Virginia is more than an address. HUBZone certification requires that the principal office sit inside a designated zone and that at least 35 percent of employees live in one, and the certification has to be renewed every three years. The company has been registered in the System for Award Management since February 2010, selling to federal agencies, state and local government, school districts and higher education

A residency rule and a skills market do not agree with each other. Senior cloud and security engineers live where they live, and every specialist hired outside a zone moves the ratio the wrong way with the next recertification already on the calendar. Certification meanwhile keeps pulling GovSmart into competitions it can win on status, because HUBZone firms carry a 10 percent price evaluation preference in full and open competition and the government aims 3 percent of prime contract dollars in their direction. Winning on status and delivering on depth are separate problems, and only one of them is solved by holding the certificate

CWS handles the second. Engagements are staffed by our engineers under the GovSmart brand and delivered to one standard across the United States and Canada, with French speaking delivery available where Quebec or Canadian federal requirements apply. Corova takes care of scoping, quoting and project tracking, so a school district and a federal civilian agency get the same discipline and the same paper trail. Capacity becomes a subcontracting decision rather than a hiring decision, which is a decision GovSmart can make in the week a solicitation drops instead of the quarter before it