Federal-grade pedigree across USDA, HUD, and VA

HSG has served since June 2022 as the senior organizational-design, position-classification, and compensation-and-budget mapping subcontractor supporting USDA APHIS Plant Protection & Quarantine and Action Programs on overseas workforce in Mexico, Panama, and Guatemala. The engagement is HSG's standing active USDA mission-area presence — and it is the closest possible operational analog to the staffing-and-budget transition challenge USDA now faces in absorbing Food for Peace. The FFP transition is not simply a programmatic shift; it requires USDA to design new program-staff positions, classify them at appropriate federal grades, map the staffing structure to a defensible payroll budget, and stand up the supervisory and reporting architecture from scratch. HSG has done precisely this kind of work for USDA, currently, with documented Exceptional performance.

• Organizational design for USDA mission-area programs — directly transferable to FFP staffing architecture
• Position-classification work at federal grade levels — directly transferable to FFP staff classification
• Compensation and budget mapping for overseas USDA workforce — directly transferable to FFP payroll budget formulation
• All performance ratings Exceptional per signed PPQ from Sheetal Patel, President, Rumik Consultancy
• PPQ has 24-month reuse authorization signed 2026-04-07
• Active engagement — current operational fluency inside USDA
• Mexico, Panama, Guatemala overseas workforce coverage (overseas-workforce parallel to FFP field-office structure)

Reference: Sheetal Patel, President, Rumik Consultancy LLC · miki.patel@rumikconsultancy.com · 469-951-1423

HSG provides organizational redesign and operational restructuring support to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service through Rumik Consultancy LLC's USDA BPA — a separate task order from the APHIS engagement. The work directly leverages Maurice House's 38-year career inside USDA FAS as Minister Counselor (Brussels, Beijing) and Deputy Administrator of the FAS Office of Global Analysis. Most relevant past-performance citation on the firm for any FAS-adjacent acquisition.

• Maurice House — senior FAS subject-matter authority on his home agency
• Separate Rumik task order from APHIS — distinct performance citation
• Direct FAS organizational scope — closest analog for the FFP transition

Reference: Available on request

HSG served as Real Estate SME and Project Management Lead under the VA's Lease Contract Administration contract — overseeing post-acceptance management of 58 active VHA leases representing over 2.5 million square feet of medical and administrative space nationwide. Jelani House directed data integrity operations across five VA systems, validated annual operating cost escalations, and managed legal instruments. HSG also designed and implemented an AI-enabled workflow automation system that cut administrative processing time by more than 30 percent — the operational predecessor to the AI-augmented service delivery methodology HSG brings to this contract.

• 58 active VHA leases / 2.5M sq ft of medical and administrative space nationwide
• Data integrity across 5 VA systems (eCMS, G-REX, CAI, iFAMS, FMS)
• Legal instrument management: Novation Agreements, Estoppel Letters, Subordination Agreements
• AI-enabled workflow automation: 30%+ reduction in administrative processing time
• Performance Management Plans, bi-weekly briefings, inspection reports, financial reconciliation summaries

HSG provided expert witness testimony and litigation support to Clark, Love & Hutson in a landmark biotechnology case representing U.S. farmers against a major agricultural firm for damages from the premature commercialization of an unapproved GMO corn product. Maurice House — drawing on his career as Senior Foreign Service Officer and former Agricultural Minister Counselor — served as expert witness on the global GMO regulatory environment, the duty of care owed by biotech firms, and cascading market impacts. Jelani House prepared technical briefs and comparative analyses synthesizing U.S., Chinese, and EU regulatory frameworks with global trade precedents (Starlink, LibertyLink). The case concluded in a settlement of approximately $500 million.

• Maurice House expert witness on global GMO regulatory environment
• Comparative U.S. / China / EU regulatory analysis (Jelani House)
• Direct HSG retainer — corporate past performance, not subcontract
• Case settled at approximately $500M

Emax has served as HUD's Program Financial Advisor (PFA) continuously since 1999 — a 27-year federal-advisory engagement applying Wall Street capital-markets discipline to HUD's loan-sale portfolio. Emax structures, prices, executes, and reconciles federal loan-sale transactions across HVLS, HNVLS, SFLS, MHLS, and HLS product lines, with cumulative sale volume exceeding $7 billion. Audrey McGuire (Emax CEO and former Wall Street investment banker) provides senior firm oversight; HSG has been embedded in the active delivery team since 2023. The engagement is the most direct demonstration possible of the team's ability to apply capital-markets discipline to federal portfolio decisions — the precise capability the administration's bilateral co-investment foreign-aid doctrine requires.

• Emax has held the HUD PFA continuously since 1999 — 27 years of federal-loan-portfolio capital-markets advisory
• Cumulative federal loan-sale volume supported: >$7 billion across HVLS / HNVLS / SFLS / MHLS / HLS
• Wall Street investment-banking discipline applied to federal portfolio decisions — closest operational analog to the deal architecture the America First doctrine requires for FFP bilateral co-investment agreements
• Senior Emax firm leadership (Audrey McGuire) directly engaged
• HSG embedded in delivery team since 2023; documented Exceptional performance

Reference: Michael McGuire, President, Emax · michaelmcguire@emaxllc.com · 212-813-3510

HSG has served continuously since 2023 as senior analytical and project-management subcontractor under Emax Financial & Real Estate Advisory Services, LLC across HUD Office of Asset Sales (PFA program; Emax prime since 1999), Navy NAVFAC (PPV / Real Estate IDIQ), VA OAEM (Enhanced Use Lease Post-Transaction Support), and VHA Lease Administration. All HSG performance ratings on the engagement are documented Exceptional via signed PPQ from Michael McGuire (President) and Emma Gleason at Emax. For the FFP transition contract, Emax shifts roles — from prime customer of HSG to analyst-surge subcontractor under HSG — contributing a talented junior-professional bench scaled around HSG's senior FAS subject-matter experts.

• Continuous 3+ year HSG-Emax federal-advisory partnership
• Performance ratings Exceptional via signed PPQ from Mike McGuire and Emma Gleason
• Multi-agency federal advisory bench: HUD, Navy, VA, VHA
• Role flip on FFP: Emax becomes HSG subcontractor for analyst surge support

Reference: Mike McGuire, President, Emax · michaelmcguire@emaxllc.com · 212-813-3510