Capability StatementBusiness Consulting Services.
Led by retired Department of War (DoW) government contracting experts, Agile Elite Solutions LLC (AES) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business delivering Business Development, Capture Management, Proposal Management, Sales Management, Program Management, Project Management, and Workforce Staffing Solutions to government and commercial clients, from companies competing for government work to the agencies that award it.
Seven core practices. One accountable team.
AES pairs government-side experience with PMI-aligned delivery, mobilizes fast, and puts its leadership on every engagement, backed by a bench that scales with the work.
We support small, mid-size, and large government contractors, prime and subcontractor teams, federal, state, and local agencies, and commercial industry companies.
To provide our customers with first-class business consulting services across government and commercial industries.
To be the first choice for government and commercial businesses looking to grow, helping them compete, scale, and sustain their business for the long term.
What we deliver.
Business Development
- Industry engagement and relationship building with customers and partners
- Market research and agency targeting
- Pipeline development with defined gate reviews
- Teaming and partner strategy
- Customer call plans and capability briefings
Capture Management
- Opportunity identification and qualification
- Bid or no-bid decision support
- Capture plans with milestones and gate reviews
- Customer, requirement, and incumbent intelligence
- Competitive assessment and black hat analysis
- Win strategy, win themes, and discriminators
- Price-to-win analysis and solution shaping
- Sources sought, RFI, and white paper responses
Proposal Management
- RFP/RFQ responses, kickoff, and schedule
- Compliance matrix and annotated outline from Sections L and M
- Technical, management, past performance, and price volumes
- Writing, editing, and desktop publishing
- Shipley-aligned color team reviews: Blue, Black Hat, Pink, Green, Red, Gold, and White
- Final production and portal submission
Sales Management
- Sales process design from lead through closing the deal
- Revenue forecasting and pipeline metrics
- Account growth and recompete retention
Program Management
- Program planning and integrated master schedules
- Cost, schedule, and performance tracking
- Risk identification and mitigation planning
- Stakeholder engagement and governance
- Contract deliverable tracking
- PMO stand-up and process improvement
Project Management
- Project planning, scope, and milestone management
- Requirements management and change control
- Resource and schedule management
- Quality assurance and acceptance
- Status reporting and issue escalation
- Transition and closeout
Workforce Staffing Solutions
- Talent sourcing and recruiting across all career fields and industries
- Cleared candidate pipeline development
- Contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire placement
- Labor category mapping and staffing plans for proposals
- Onboarding support and retention planning
- Veteran and transitioning service member placement
At a glance.
Where this has already been done.
Business consulting services
Leads capture management, sales management, proposal management, business development, and workforce staffing solutions for cybersecurity opportunities across all government agencies.
Project and program management
Successfully led project and program management for 23 years across global operations supporting over 400,000 personnel and $10 billion in budgets and critical assets.
What you cannot get from a bigger firm.
We have been the customer
Our leadership wrote requirements, used contracts like these, and managed the programs that came out of them. We arrive understanding the mission behind the solicitation, not just the solicitation.
We see both sides of a bid
We run capture and proposals for companies competing for government work, and we deliver programs for the agencies awarding it. Almost no firm our size sits on both sides, and it shows in how fast we understand a requirement.
Leadership you can reach. A bench that scales.
Our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, retired Department of War (DoW) government contracting experts, lead every engagement, backed by a vetted bench of capture, proposal, program, and staffing professionals matched to your requirement.
We say what is not working
You are hiring us to improve an outcome, not to agree. If the requirement, the schedule, or the approach has a problem, you hear it early, while it can still be fixed and before it costs anyone a finding.
Behavior, not just process
A doctorate in educational leadership and a background in industrial-organizational psychology mean we address why a program stalls, not only the schedule that shows it stalled.
We can start now
Small enough to commit and mobilize inside the window a larger firm spends staffing, worldwide, working to PMI-aligned practice and a Shipley-aligned capture and proposal process from day one.
Points of contact.
Chief Master Sergeant, United States Air Force (Ret)
Chris Ricks is the Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Agile Elite Solutions, LLC (AES), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that helps government and commercial organizations grow, compete, and deliver. He is a retired United States Air Force Chief Master Sergeant with 23 years of service, during which he led personnel at senior levels, managed programs and budgets, and oversaw contract activities from the government’s side of the table.
Dr. Daylena Ricks is the Chief Operating Officer of Agile Elite Solutions, LLC (AES), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business serving government and commercial clients. She retired from the United States Air Force after more than 20 years, beginning as a combat photojournalist and finishing as a Public Affairs Manager.
Psy.D. in Educational Leadership
Master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology
Let’s connect. Let’s do business.
Contact us for a free consultation.