Manhattan Strategy Group

What Manhattan Strategy Group does

Manhattan Strategy Group (MSG) is a privately held federal management consulting firm founded in 2001 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with a secondary office in New York. The firm delivers five core service lines to U.S. federal agencies: Training and Technical Assistance (TTA), Research and Evaluation, Marketing and Communications, Technology and Digital Services, and Program Management. MSG primes contracts directly with 14 federal agencies including the Departments of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Treasury, Homeland Security, State, Commerce, and the Interior, as well as the National Science Foundation and U.S. Trade and Development Agency, growing from one prime contract in 2008 to more than 100 prime contracts today.

The firm's technology practice builds and operates compliant cloud and content platforms hosted on AWS GovCloud and Salesforce GovCloud, including Drupal CMS-based clearinghouses for the National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC), the National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS), and the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA), as well as a Salesforce-based data collection platform that routes 500 third-party monitors to conduct 40,000 site visits annually for USDA. MSG holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and CMMI Level 3 certifications relevant to federal IT and security procurements, and operates an internal TTA Academy to standardize service delivery.

MSG generates revenue by winning and executing competitive federal procurements, IDIQ/task order contracts, and BPAs under fixed-price and cost-reimbursable arrangements; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The customer base is exclusively government, anchored by long-running relationships such as a DOL partnership dating to 2010, an $83M DOJ/OJP communications BPA, a five-year JOLTS data collection contract with DOL/BLS awarded in 2026, and a PDG B-5 TA Center contract with HHS/ACF. A Global Development practice extends delivery to more than 30 countries, while CSR activity under MSG Cares supports education and healthcare initiatives in Pakistan.

Name

Manhattan Strategy Group

Legal name

Manhattan Strategy Group LLC

Website

https://manhattanstrategy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Manhattan Strategy Group is a Bethesda-based federal management consulting firm delivering training and technical assistance, research and evaluation, technology platforms, communications, and program management to 14 U.S. federal agencies across education, workforce, health, justice, and global development sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Federal Government Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Management Services (8741), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & IT Advisory (BPAEAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Central Government Policy, Strategy & Performance (incl. OMB-style functions) (BPAIAAAB)

Keywords

• Federal government consulting
• Training and technical assistance
• Research and evaluation
• Government digital services
• Program management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bethesda

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Federal Government Contracts: MSG generates revenue by winning and delivering prime contracts with U.S. federal agencies (DOL, ED, HHS, USDA, DOJ, DOI, DHS, HUD, Treasury, NSF, USTDA, State, Commerce). Revenue is project-based, awarded through competitive procurement or IDIQ contracts, typically multi-year in duration. Starting with just one prime contract in 2008, MSG has since primed over 100 contracts across 14 federal agencies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Manhattan Strategy Group is a federal consulting firm that delivers five integrated service lines to U.S. government agencies: Training & Technical Assistance (TTA), Research & Evaluation, Marketing & Communications, Technology & Digital Services, and Program Management. The firm primes contracts with 14+ federal agencies across education, workforce, health, agriculture, justice, housing, and global development, designing and operating digital platforms, conducting rigorous evaluations, and managing national resource centers and clearinghouses. MSG has delivered over 100 prime contracts since 2008 and operates in more than 30 countries through its global development practice.

Product overview

Manhattan Strategy Group (MSG) is a federal consulting firm offering a portfolio of five core service lines: Training & Technical Assistance, Research & Evaluation, Marketing & Communications, Technology & Digital Services, and Program Management. The firm serves federal agencies including the Departments of Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Justice, Commerce, State, Housing and Urban Development, and the Interior, as well as the National Science Foundation. MSG's technology practice builds and manages digital platforms including the National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) on Drupal/AWS GovCloud, the National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS), the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA), the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse, OJJDP's National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC), and the National Veterans Technical Assistance Center (NVTAC). Additional platforms include the Location Affordability Portal, You for Youth Professional Development Portal, ASPE Model Effective Marginal Tax Rate Calculator, and a Salesforce GovCloud system for USDA. The firm also delivers specialized communications products including the Career Pathways Exchange newsletter and the Justice Today podcast series.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Training & Technical Assistance (TTA) Services
• Research & Evaluation Services
• Marketing & Communications Services
• Technology & Digital Services
• Program Management Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 552+ million campaign impressions for Sarcopenia and Immobility awareness campaign
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• The Citizens Foundation (TCF)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018In 2018, MSG Cares partnered with The Citizens Foundation (TCF) to build a school in Karachi, Pakistan providing free education to approximately 400 students in grades 6–10, with a focus on girls. The school (TCF Manhattan Campus) provides high-quality education to disadvantaged children, with TCF running operations and MSG supporting through its CSR initiative MSG Cares.
• Patients' Aid Foundation (PAF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMSG partnered with the Patients' Aid Foundation (PAF) to build a new nephrology ward at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in Karachi, Pakistan. The facility provides free hemodialysis services to approximately 100 less-privileged patients per month. MSG helped manage design, development, construction, and funding.
• Institute of Behavioral Psychology (IBP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMSG provides consulting services to IBP, a psychology-based multipurpose educational center in Karachi, Pakistan. IBP offers specialized education and vocational training services to enhance the lives of students with cognitive support needs. IBP is the only institute in South Asia offering psychological, educational, and therapeutic services in one centralized location.

Scale indicators18 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• RTI International: Nonprofit research institute delivering federal and global evaluation, health and education research and TTA, comparable to MSG's research/evaluation and global development practice.
• American Institutes for Research (AIR): Behavioral and social science research organization providing TTA, evaluation and education/workforce support to federal agencies, closely aligned with MSG's markets.
• Abt Global (Abt Associates): Federal research, evaluation, and technical-assistance firm serving HHS, ED, DOL and international development clients—directly overlapping MSG's core research/evaluation and TTA work.
• Mathematica: Policy research and evaluation firm delivering rigorous evaluation and data services to federal education, labor and health agencies, mirroring MSG's evaluation and program-support offerings.
• Westat: Research and data-collection firm running large federal surveys and evaluations across health, education and labor—overlapping MSG's data-collection and evaluation contracts.

Emerging players

• MEF Associates: Boutique social-policy research and evaluation firm serving HHS/ACF and DOL programs, a close small-scale analog to MSG's human-services evaluation and TTA niche.

Broad incumbents

• Maximus: Large government program administration and operations contractor for federal and state health and human-services programs, overlapping MSG's program-management and grantee-support work.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: Major federal management, technology and analytics contractor competing for the government digital and advisory work MSG pursues, though vastly larger.
• ICF International: Publicly traded federal consulting and digital-services provider spanning TTA, communications and technology for the same agencies MSG serves, but at far larger scale.
• Guidehouse: Large management and technology consulting firm serving federal government clients across program management and digital modernization, overlapping MSG's broad service portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/manhattan-strategy-group

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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