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Micro Purchase Bundles

See below for fixed-price, purchase-card friendly support packages designed for streamlined ordering. Upon request, we will tailor any package to your specific requirements and can provide additional services on an hourly basis. 


These packages provide professional consulting, advisory, and training services. Applicability of the purchase thresholds, Service Contract Labor Standards, and purchase-card rules may vary based on the final scope, place of performance, labor mix, and agency determination.

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Program and Project Management

Project Initiation & Business Case

Project Initiation & Business Case

Project Initiation & Business Case

This consulting package brings structure to the earliest stage of a project by clarifying the business need, defining the decision context, identifying key stakeholders, and organizing the foundational planning documents needed for a successful launch. Thought Partners provides advisory input, facilitated discussion, and editable tools that support informed project approval and early execution.


  • Project charter template with professional consultation on purpose, objectives, assumptions, constraints, and success measures
  • Business case and executive-level ROI summary review with advisory recommendations
  • One stakeholder identification and engagement working session
  • Stakeholder register, power/interest map, and stakeholder engagement plan templates
  • High-level scope definition and budget estimation advisory guidance
  • Initial risk register template with professional consultation
  • Governance and decision-rights working session with editable RACI matrix template
  • Acquisition strategy consultation to support early planning decisions


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000

Project Planning & Framework

Project Initiation & Business Case

Project Initiation & Business Case

 This package gives teams a practical framework for moving from concept to actionable project plan. Through professional planning guidance and editable templates, Thought Partners supports development of the project management plan, work breakdown structure, schedule approach, communications strategy, risk planning, quality considerations, and budget tracking structure.


  • Editable project management plan template with professional consultation
  • Work breakdown structure and WBS dictionary development guidance
  • Project schedule review and planning recommendations
  • Editable resource management plan template
  • Editable communications plan template
  • Editable risk management plan template and risk register refinement guidance
  • Editable quality management plan template
  • Knowledge management consultation and lessons learned template
  • Budget baseline and cost tracking advisory guidance


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000

Project Execution & Performance Management

Project Execution & Performance Management

Project Execution & Performance Management

This advisory package focuses on improving project visibility, decision support, and management discipline during execution. Thought Partners provides templates, coaching, and review guidance for status reporting, meeting management, change control, corrective actions, budget trends, deliverable oversight, and invoice review practices.


  • Meeting management coaching and editable meeting templates
  • Weekly or bi-weekly project status report template
  • Change request and corrective action log template with advisory consultation
  • Budget tracking and forecasting guidance, including variance, earned value, and funding burn-rate considerations
  • Deliverable tracking framework and professional recommendations for managed oversight
  • Invoice review checklist and tracking template with consultation on review practices

    

40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000

Project Closeout & Lessons Learned

Project Execution & Performance Management

Project Execution & Performance Management

This closeout-focused package provides a structured approach for completing project activities, organizing final documentation, and capturing lessons learned. Thought Partners supports closeout planning, performance reporting, documentation archiving, and stakeholder reflection through a facilitated session and practical closeout tools.


  • Project closeout checklist template tailored to the project context
  • Final project performance report template with advisory consultation
  • Documentation archive framework and recommendations
  • One facilitated lessons learned session with key stakeholders
  • Final lessons learned register summarizing themes, risks, recommendations, and improvement opportunities


20 hours for $3,000

40 hours for $6,000




    

Procurement Support Services

Acquisition Planning & Strategy Services

Acquisition Planning & Strategy Services

Acquisition Planning & Strategy Services

This package supports early acquisition readiness by helping teams think through the acquisition approach before procurement documents are finalized. Thought Partners provides strategic consultation, planning templates, market research guidance, small business strategy input, and a practical roadmap for moving an acquisition from need identification toward execution.


  • Acquisition plan review and advisory recommendations
  • Business case and capital planning consultation
  • Draft 30-60-90 day acquisition roadmap
  • Market research planning guidance, including RFI, sources-sought, vendor engagement, or industry day considerations
  • Facilitation support for one strategy-focused industry day session
  • Small business strategy consultation and planning recommendations


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000

Pre-Award Documentation Services

Acquisition Planning & Strategy Services

Acquisition Planning & Strategy Services

This package provides professional review and advisory support for acquisition materials before solicitation release. Thought Partners reviews requirements documents, QASP inputs, evaluation factors, proposal instructions, decision support materials, and solicitation package elements to identify gaps, improve alignment, and strengthen acquisition readiness.


  • Requirements development consultation, including review of SOW, SOO, PWS, and cost estimate inputs
  • QASP guidance and template recommendations
  • Source selection plan consultation
  • Advisory review of evaluation factors and proposal instructions
  • Editable best-value decision support memo template
  • Review of draft and final solicitation package with professional findings and recommendations


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Post-Award & Contract Administration Services

Post-Award & Contract Administration Services

Post-Award & Contract Administration Services

This post-award package equips government teams with practical templates and advisory guidance for stronger contract oversight. Thought Partners provides a contract start-up kit, consultation on kickoff practices, review tools for deliverables and invoices, and decision-support guidance for documentation, modifications, and performance oversight activities.


  • Post-award contract start-up kit with editable templates, including deliverable tracker, invoice review tracker, requirements traceability matrix, quality control review aid, and quality assurance review aid
  • Professional consultation on post-award kickoff 
  • Advisory guidance on contract modification considerations, documentation needs, and decision points


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Closeout & Compliance

Post-Award & Contract Administration Services

Post-Award & Contract Administration Services

This package supports an orderly, well-documented contract closeout process. Thought Partners provides closeout checklists, acceptance evidence guidance, CPARS-related consultation when applicable, administrative closeout templates, and a facilitated retrospective to capture acquisition lessons learned and improvement opportunities.


  • Closeout and compliance checklist template with professional consultation
  • Deliverables validation summary template and acceptance evidence guidance
  • CPARS preparation consultation, if applicable
  • Administrative closeout memo template and documentation guidance
  • One lessons learned and acquisition retrospective session



20 hours for $3,000

40 hours for $6,000

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement Support

Stakeholder Engagement Support

Stakeholder Engagement Support

This package provides structure for gathering input, clarifying perspectives, and documenting stakeholder feedback. Thought Partners supports the planning and facilitation of one engagement session, then provides practical documentation of themes, decisions, action items, and recommended follow-up communication.


  • Stakeholder engagement plan development guidance
  • Agenda for one stakeholder engagement session
  • Facilitation of one structured stakeholder engagement session
  • Meeting summary with key themes, decisions, and action items
  • Recommendations for follow-on stakeholder communication


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Requirements Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement Support

Stakeholder Engagement Support

This review package is designed for teams that need an expert assessment of existing requirements before moving forward. Thought Partners evaluates documentation for clarity, completeness, consistency, traceability, and testability, then provides a findings memorandum with recommended improvements and risk considerations.


  • Review of existing requirements documentation
  • Assessment of clarity, completeness, consistency, and testability
  • Identification of gaps, ambiguities, and potential risks
  • Memorandum of findings with best-practice recommendations
  • Consultation session to walk through recommended improvements


40 hours for $6,000   

80 hours for $12,000

Enhancement Prioritization

Enhancement Prioritization

Enhancement Prioritization

This package brings a structured decision framework to system enhancement planning. Thought Partners reviews the existing enhancement list, applies prioritization criteria, develops recommended sequencing, drafts SOW language for one enhancement, and provides a feasibility memo to support informed government decisions.


  • Review of existing enhancement list
  • Prioritization framework and advisory recommendations
  • Draft SOW language for one system enhancement
  • Review of one related proposal or technical approach
  • Feasibility memorandum with risks, assumptions, and recommended next steps


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Product Backlog Support

Enhancement Prioritization

Enhancement Prioritization

This advisory package strengthens backlog organization, prioritization, and sprint readiness. Thought Partners reviews or helps structure the product backlog, provides refinement guidance for up to three sprints, develops acceptance criteria recommendations, and supports product owner decision-making through focused consultation.


  • Initial product backlog review or development guidance
  • Recommendations for backlog structure, hierarchy, and prioritization
  • Advisory support for backlog refinement for up to three sprints
  • Acceptance criteria guidance for selected backlog items
  • Product owner consultation on sprint readiness and decision-making



40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

IT Management & Oversight

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

  • Develop a quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP)
  • Create a surveillance calendar based on the QASP
  • Assist in reviewing and tracking vendor performance against the QASP for one (1) month.


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Test Plan and Test Results Review

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

  • Review one (1) vendor test plan and develop a memorandum of findings and recommendations 
  • Review (1) vendor test report and provide a memorandum of findings and recommendations to ensure system alignment with contractual requirements
  • Provide user acceptance test coordination for (1) system release


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Deliverable Tracking and Review

Deliverable Tracking and Review

Deliverable Tracking and Review

  • Develop and document a process for deliverable tracking and review
  • Provide one (1) training on the deliverable review process
  • Assist in the review of up to three (3) deliverables


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Product Owner Agile Coaching

Deliverable Tracking and Review

Deliverable Tracking and Review

  • Provide an agile ceremony playbook and consultation on how to participate effectively in sprint planning, daily scrums, reviews, and retrospectives
  • Provide assistance in reviewing (1) sprint plan and monitoring progress
  • Assist in the development of one (1) executive status briefing to communicate project progress, risks, decisions, and value to leadership


40 hours for $6,000

80 hours for $12,000   

Trainings

Contracts Management Training

IT Oversight Training for Program Managers

IT Oversight Training for Program Managers

An interactive, practice-based training to provide best practices for managing the full contract lifecycle, from planning and solicitation/source selection through award, administration, modifications, performance oversight and closeout.


Half-Day (4 hours) $5,000

Full-Day (7 hours) $8,500


Pricing reflects virtual training format. In-person training is available; pricing varies based on location.

IT Oversight Training for Program Managers

IT Oversight Training for Program Managers

IT Oversight Training for Program Managers

This training will provide

program managers and product owners with practical advice and hands-on exercises for monitoring IT projects. Modules include contracting fundamentals, project management best practices, requirements development, stakeholder engagement, deliverable tracking and review, agile delivery, and user acceptance testing.


Half-Day (4 hours) $5,000

Full-Day (7 hours) $8,500


Pricing reflects virtual training format. In-person training is available; pricing varies based on location.

Project Management Training

IT Oversight Training for Program Managers

Project Management Training

A practical project management training aligned with industry standards to equip project managers to plan, execute, monitor & control, and closeout projects using compliant methods for scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality.


Half-Day (4 hours) $5,000

Full-Day (7 hours) $8,500


Pricing reflects virtual training format. In-person training is available; pricing varies based on location.

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