GPS Strategic Advisors

What GPS Strategic Advisors does

GPS Strategic Advisors (legal entity GPS, LLC) is a privately held management consulting firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with operating presence in DC, Virginia, Kansas, and Florida. The firm provides specialized advisory services to government contracting companies seeking to enter, expand within, or compete more effectively in the federal marketplace. Its core service lines are Strategic Growth and Advisory Services, Business Development and Capture Services, and Proposal Services, supported by specialized modules covering federal market research, GWAC pursuit strategies, and post-award execution support.

The firm does not develop proprietary software or technology products; its value delivery is entirely human-delivered professional services. Its competitive offering rests on a bench of approximately 20 named senior consultants, the majority of whom are former federal Senior Executive Service (SES) officials drawn from USDA, VA, GSA, Treasury, DHS, and other agencies, with collective federal market experience cited at 250+ years (and later at over 500 years). The company reports a track record of 65+ completed client proposals at an approximately 90 percent win rate, translating to roughly $970 million in downstream contract awards value for clients, though this metric reflects client outcomes rather than GPS revenue.

GPS Strategic Advisors generates revenue through professional services engagements with government contracting companies ranging from emerging small businesses to large federal contractors. Distribution is direct and consultative, targeting C-level executives at client firms. The firm has no external funding, no parent company, and no disclosed financial information, operating as a founder-owned practice led by Co-founder and President Barry Grant and Senior Vice President Kent Armstrong. Marketing is limited to a LinkedIn presence and the company website, including a press release section announcing senior hires.

Name

GPS Strategic Advisors

Legal name

GPS, LLC

Website

https://gpscorp.biz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GPS Strategic Advisors is a privately held management consulting firm founded in 2016 that provides strategic growth, business development/capture, and proposal advisory services to government contracting companies in the federal marketplace, leveraging a bench of former SES-level federal executives.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Contracting Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Sector & Policy Consulting (BPAHACAN)

Keywords

• Government contracting consulting
• Federal market advisory
• Capture management services
• Proposal management services
• Strategic growth consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting and Strategic Advisory Services: GPS Strategic Advisors generates revenue through specialized management consulting and strategic growth services provided to government contracting companies. Services include strategic growth and advisory services, business development and capture services, and proposal services. Revenue is derived from professional services engagements with clients ranging from small businesses to large federal contractors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

GPS Strategic Advisors is a professional management consulting firm that provides specialized strategic growth, business development/capture, and proposal services to government contracting companies. The firm helps small, mid-tier, and large businesses enter, expand within, and win contracts in the federal marketplace, leveraging a team of former senior government executives (SES-level) with collective experience across federal agencies including USDA, HHS, DHS, GSA, VA, and Treasury.

Product overview

GPS Strategic Advisors provides specialized management consulting and strategic growth services to government contracting companies. The company operates as a services firm organized around three core service offerings: Strategic Growth and Advisory Services, Business Development and Capture Services, and Proposal Services. These core services are supported by specialized modules including federal market research and intelligence, GWAC pursuit strategies, and post-award execution support. The company leverages over 250 years of collective experience (updated to over 500 years in later sources) to help clients navigate the federal market and win government contracts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategic Growth and Advisory Services Tailored growth and advisory services for government contracting companies, including federal market research, competitive analysis, growth strategy development, account plan development, proposal maturity assessments, and federal GWAC pursuit strategies. Aligned with client short- and long-term growth objectives in the federal marketplace.
• Business Development and Capture Services Comprehensive business development and capture services covering pipeline development, opportunity evaluation, capture management, technical solutioning, price-to-win strategy, and strategic teaming support to increase competitive advantage and win federal contracts.
• Proposal Services End-to-end proposal strategy, development, and execution services including operations management, solutioning, technical writing and editing, customized graphics and desktop publishing, color team reviews, orals coaching, and proposal review and debriefs. Consultants are trained in the Shipley Process.

Quantifiable outcome

• Won $25M single-award BPA for medium-sized management consulting firm; customer received $4.3M in task orders within first six months
• +6 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Shipley Associates: Best-known provider of proposal management methodology (the Shipley Process) and capture/proposal training. GPS consultants are trained in Shipley; the firms compete for similar federal proposal and capture engagements and target the same govcon client base.
• Attain Partners: A consulting and advisory firm serving federal contractors and government agencies with growth strategy, M&A advisory, capture, and proposal services. Closely mirrors GPS in both service mix and federal-market customer focus.
• Keller Benevento (formerly Capture2Proposal): A federal-market capture and proposal services firm. Highly comparable in offering (capture management, proposal development, BD support) and customer profile (small, mid-tier, and large govcon firms).
• Lohfeld Consulting Group: A federal-market capture, proposal, and BD consulting firm serving government contractors. Highly comparable in service scope (capture, proposal, and BD advisory) and target customer base (govcon firms pursuing civilian and DoD work).
• GovNavigators: Specializes in guiding companies into and through the federal marketplace — strategy, BD, capture, proposal. Direct overlap with GPS on growth strategy and federal market entry services for commercial companies entering govcon.

Broad incumbents

• ICF International: A large public-sector consulting firm with deep federal civilian agency work. Overlaps with GPS on federal IT modernization and acquisition support, though ICF operates a much broader portfolio beyond capture/proposal advisory.
• Guidehouse: Major advisory firm with significant federal civilian practice (HHS, USDA-adjacent work). Competes indirectly with GPS by providing end-to-end federal advisory, strategy, and management consulting to large agencies and contractors.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: One of the largest federal consulting firms with deep capture, proposal, and BD functions serving both civilian and DoD agencies. Represents the upper bound of competitive scale against which niche players like GPS must differentiate.

Regional players

• MindPoint Group: A federal IT and cybersecurity consulting firm working across civilian agencies. Comparable in size and federal civilian focus, but differentiated by being an IT delivery contractor rather than a capture/proposal advisory specialist.

Others

• Deltek (GovWin): Provider of federal market intelligence, pipeline, and opportunity data (GovWin). An enabling/adjoining vendor rather than direct competitor — GPS uses similar federal spending/budget intelligence as part of its market research deliverables.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gps-corp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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