Past Performance
Federal-grade pedigree across USDA, HUD, and VA
Two tiers, honestly framed. HSG corporate past performance (HSG LLC as a company) plus key-personnel past performance from prior employers — the convention required by federal source-selection.
Tier A · HSG Corporate
House Strategies Group LLC
HSG corporate past performance
USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
USDA APHIS Plant Protection & Quarantine + Action Programs — Senior HR Consulting Support
HSG has served since June 2022 as a Senior HR Consulting subcontractor supporting USDA APHIS Plant Protection & Quarantine and Action Programs on overseas workforce and position-management efforts in Mexico, Panama, and Guatemala. Scope: position assessments, current-state and GAP analyses, workforce standardization, draft position descriptions in Department of State-ready format, succession planning, and hiring-process recommendations.
- All performance ratings Exceptional per signed PPQ from Sheetal Patel, President, Rumik Consultancy
- PPQ has 24-month reuse authorization signed 2026-04-07
- Direct USDA fluency — current operational engagement inside USDA
- Mexico, Panama, Guatemala overseas workforce coverage
Reference: Sheetal Patel, President, Rumik Consultancy LLC · miki.patel@rumikconsultancy.com · 469-951-1423
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
USDA FAS Organizational Redesign
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 Co-Founder and CEO Maurice House's 38-year career inside USDA FAS as Minister Counselor (Brussels, Beijing) and Deputy Administrator of the FAS Office of Global Analysis.
- Maurice House — Senior FAS subject-matter authority on his home agency
- Separate Rumik task order from APHIS — distinct performance citation
- USDA Department-level reorganization analog directly relevant to RD's FY26 32% FTE cut
Reference: Available on request
VA Office of Construction & Facilities Management; VA Office of Real Property
VA Lease Contract Administration — Real Estate SME & PM Lead
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 (eCMS, G-REX, CAI, iFAMS, FMS), validated annual operating cost escalations, and managed legal instruments including Novation Agreements, Estoppel Letters, and Subordination Agreements. HSG also designed and implemented an AI-enabled workflow automation system that standardized documentation templates and cut administrative processing time by more than 30 percent.
- 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
- Electronic QC tracker flagging discrepancies in rent, SAM registration, and escalation calculations
- Performance Management Plans, bi-weekly briefings, inspection reports, financial reconciliation summaries
Clark, Love & Hutson, PLLC (representing U.S. farmers)
Syngenta GMO Corn Class Action — Expert Witness Engagement
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 arising from the premature commercialization of an unapproved GMO corn product. Maurice House — drawing on his background as a former U.S. Agricultural Minister Counselor and Attaché — served as expert witness on the global GMO regulatory environment, the duty of care owed by biotech firms, and the cascading market impacts of negligent product sequencing. Jelani House prepared technical briefs, evidence summaries, 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 + biotech duty of care
- Jelani House: technical briefs, evidence summaries, US/China/EU regulatory comparative analyses
- Trade precedent analysis: Starlink, LibertyLink
- ~$500M settlement outcome
- Direct HSG retainer (not subcontractor) — full engagement control
Tier B · Key Personnel
HSG founders & senior practitioners — prior-employer engagements
Federal source-selection convention: prior-employer experience is cited as key-personnel past performance, not HSG corporate past performance.
Jelani House
Financial-Advisory & Credit Reform Documentation Support
Jelani served HUD OAS for 16 continuous years — first as Senior Project Manager at Novad Management Consulting, LLC (HECM / Secretary-Held loan-servicing scope and adjacent advisory work, ~2014–~2018), then as Associate Director, Public Sector Financial Services at Guidehouse, LLP (OAS Transaction Cycle subcontract under Falcon Capital Advisors, ~2018–2024). Contributions: pre-sale modification subsidy cost analysis under OMB Circulars A-129 and A-11 §185 on dozens of OAS sales (HVLS / HNVLS / SFLS / MHLS / HLS); cohort-level cash-flow inputs to the OMB Credit Subsidy Calculator (CSC) for re-estimate cycles; transaction-level reconciliation between FHA loan-servicing systems and Treasury / General Ledger records under Treasury USSGL Credit Reform Guidance and TFM Part 2 Chapter 4600; audit-ready documentation defending FHA insurance financing account positions before HUD OIG, GAO, and IPA; post-sale Commissioner's Report support packages.
Prior employer: Novad Management Consulting · Guidehouse
Brad Dillman
Federal Loan Pricing — $17B HUD/FHA Single-Family NPL Sales
At DebtX, Brad priced loans for HUD/FHA, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, FHFA, and SBA — including a role pricing the $17 billion HUD/FHA single-family non-performing-loan sale program. He has built and presented model methodology to FHFA and contributed to HUD/SBA loan-pricing model architecture.
Prior employer: DebtX
Maurice House
Asia/Middle East Export Credits Manager — $1.2B USDA Export Credit Portfolio
Maurice managed a $1.2 billion U.S. Government export credit portfolio — analyzing country creditworthiness, executing the USDA Commodity Credit Corporation GSM-102 program, and structuring U.S. agricultural export credit deals at the country level. Direct USDA federal-credit-portfolio operating analog to RD-FO scope.
Prior employer: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
Maurice House
Deputy Administrator, FAS Office of Global Analysis (75 staff)
Led all international agricultural economic analysis for the U.S. Government; supervised 75 economists and analysts; served on the International Grains Council and International Cotton Export Council.
Prior employer: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
Kevin Latner
Three Consecutive USDA FAS MAP/FMD Unified Export Strategy Submissions
Kevin authored or co-authored four consecutive UES submissions: 2011 USGC China + 2012/2013/2014 CCI MAP/FMD. Directly relevant federal-grant-applicant experience on the USDA FAS Departmental side of the budget formulation chain.
Prior employer: USDA FAS · U.S. Grains Council · Cotton Council International