Cybersecurity Services for Nexum

Nexum takes its name from Roman law, where a nexum was the arrangement by which a person pledged their own liberty as security. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hammond, Indiana, the firm is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business verified by the US Small Business Administration. That verification is not decoration on a website. It is a procurement instrument, one that admits Nexum to federal set aside competitions most commercial integrators cannot legally bid, and it turns on who owns the company rather than on how deep the bench goes

Eligibility and capacity are separate problems, and only one of them has been solved. Set aside status rewards ownership structure. Contract performance rewards headcount, and a firm that must stay small enough to qualify is bidding work whose delivery profile it cannot always predict, because a vendor agnostic security and networking practice means the winning architecture might sit on a manufacturer its engineers have configured twice. Managed and monitored services run continuously behind the project work, so the bench is already committed when the next award lands. Declining a bid you are uniquely eligible to win, for want of engineers, is the most expensive decision available to a small business

CWS solves the capacity half without touching the ownership half. We field engineers on Nexum engagements under the Nexum name, as subcontracted delivery rather than headcount, working to one standard across the United States and Canada, in English and in French where Quebec or Canadian federal scope requires it. Corova handles scoping, quoting and project tracking, so a bid can be priced against real delivery numbers before it goes in rather than after the award