Government Services
Sapphire Government Services
Engineering Support • Program Management • Technical Services • Research & Evaluation
A professional service of Stateam LLC · SBA-certified 8(a) small business · Princeton, New Jersey
Why Sapphire
Six differentiators
1
Single Accountable Partner Across Seven Service Lines
Most small businesses force agencies to assemble a constellation of niche subcontractors. Sapphire delivers seven integrated service lines under a single 8(a) prime relationship, eliminating the coordination burden and the contractual seams that produce schedule slip and cost overrun.
2
SBA-Certified 8(a) — Sole-Source Eligibility
Federal agencies can issue sole-source task orders up to the 8(a) competitive threshold without running a full open competition. Sapphire's 8(a) certification is current, documented, and prominently disclosed on every solicitation response.
3
Federal-Grade Documentation Discipline
Our team has carried clinical trial protocols and FDA post-approval safety registries. Documentation discipline is not a marketing claim — it is the operational standard our staff carry into every engagement, whether the deliverable is a basket-trial statistical analysis plan or a PMO weekly executive dashboard.
4
Surge-Capable Across Disciplines
Sapphire's staff and partner network includes PMP-credentialed program managers, certified quality auditors, certified procurement professionals, licensed engineers, and credentialed researchers. We can stand up multi-disciplinary teams within compressed timelines without sacrificing quality screening.
5
Princeton Headquarters — Eastern Corridor Reach
Our Princeton, NJ location places us within a half-day's reach of Washington, DC, New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston program offices. Site visits, kick-off meetings, and on-site quality assurance support can be staffed with minimal travel friction.
6
Aligned with the Best-in-Class Procurement Direction
Federal procurement is consolidating onto Best-in-Class vehicles like OASIS+ and GSA MAS. Sapphire is positioned on, or pursuing, every Best-in-Class vehicle that aligns with our scope.
Capabilities
Service lines
Sapphire delivers seven integrated service lines across the project lifecycle. Each is staffed by credentialed professionals — PMP-certified program managers, licensed engineers, certified quality auditors, and certified procurement professionals — and supported by the firm's central documentation, quality, and compliance functions.
- Technical & Critical Support Services
- Quality Assurance
- Program & Project Management
- Procurement Services
- Technical Staff Augmentation
- Special R&D Services
- Legacy Modernization
Service line 1 · NAICS 541611, 541618, 541990
Technical & Critical Support Services
Sapphire delivers mission-critical technical support across federal program offices, including specialized analytical, advisory, and operational services that keep agency missions on track during high-pressure delivery windows.
- Technical advisory and subject-matter expert support across federal program offices
- Mission-critical surge support during high-pressure delivery windows
- Briefing books, executive read-aheads, and decision-grade memoranda preparation
- Stakeholder engagement, public meeting facilitation, and Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) support
- Inter-agency coordination and working group facilitation
- Crisis response support and continuity-of-operations planning
- Audit and inspector general response support
Service line 2 · NAICS 541618, 541380, 541330
Quality Assurance
Sapphire's certified quality auditors deliver federal-grade quality management programs that meet the documentation expectations of FDA, DoD, and federal infrastructure agencies. Our QA discipline is grounded in clinical-trial-grade audit readiness — a standard most professional services firms cannot match.
- Quality management plan (QMP) development and implementation
- Quality assurance auditing — internal, supplier, and process audits
- ISO 9001 alignment and quality system gap analysis
- Construction quality assurance (CQA) — material testing oversight, inspection coordination, NCR management
- Document control and configuration management
- Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) program management
- Audit response, finding remediation, and root cause analysis
- Lessons-learned capture and quality continuous improvement programs
Service line 3 · NAICS 541611, 541618, 541330
Program & Project Management
Sapphire delivers owner's-representative and program management office (PMO) support for capital projects across federal agency portfolios. Our PMP-credentialed staff deliver structured program controls aligned with PMI standards, with deliverables designed for Board, FAA, FTA, FHWA, and grant-funder review.
- Program management office (PMO) standup, operation, and decommissioning
- Owner's-representative services on capital projects
- Integrated master schedule (IMS) development, maintenance, and critical-path analysis
- Cost estimating, cost analysis, and independent government cost estimate (IGCE) development
- Earned value management (EVMS) — implementation, baseline development, monthly reporting
- Risk register management, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulation
- Change order analysis, claims avoidance support, and dispute resolution support
- Document control and information management system administration
- Stage-gate and phase-gate review facilitation
- Executive reporting, Board-grade dashboards, and public-facing transparency reporting
- Project controls staffing — schedulers, cost engineers, document control specialists
Service line 4 · NAICS 541614, 541611, 541618
Procurement Services
Sapphire delivers public-sector procurement and contract administration support across the full acquisition lifecycle. Our staff are experienced in federal acquisition regulation (FAR), state public-contracting frameworks, and the unique sourcing demands of major capital programs.
- Acquisition planning and full-cycle procurement strategy
- Market research, sources sought drafting, and industry day support
- Solicitation development — RFP, RFQ, IFB, and sole-source justification
- Evaluation criteria design and evaluation panel facilitation
- Cost and price analysis, IGCE development, and proposal evaluation
- Contract administration, modification management, and close-out
- Small business compliance tracking — 8(a), WOSB, HUBZone, SDVOSB monitoring
- Procurement audit readiness and audit response support
- Supply chain analysis and resilience strategies for long-lead infrastructure materials
- Vendor qualification, pre-qualification review, and performance monitoring
Service line 5 · NAICS 541612, 561320, 541618
Technical Staff Augmentation
When agencies need credentialed staff embedded into program offices for defined periods, Sapphire delivers technical staff augmentation under transparent labor categories with documented qualifications. Our staff carry the certifications, security clearances, and discipline expected at federal program-office desks.
- Embedded program management staff (PMP, PgMP credentialed)
- Embedded engineering staff (licensed PE where required)
- Embedded procurement and contract administration staff
- Embedded research and evaluation staff (PhD, MPH, MD where required)
- Embedded data and analytics staff
- Time-and-materials and labor-hour task order delivery
- Cleared personnel placement (Secret/Top Secret as scope requires)
- Position description development and labor category mapping
Service line 6 · NAICS 541715, 541720, 541714
Special R&D Services
Sapphire's research heritage is the firm's deepest discipline. Our team has executed FDA-grade clinical trials, post-approval safety registries, and federally-funded program evaluations involving thousands of respondents across multi-site, multi-wave longitudinal designs.
- Federal program evaluation — quasi-experimental, RCT, and mixed methods
- Adolescent health and Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) intervention evaluation
- Public health surveillance and outcomes research
- Clinical trial design — basket trials, adaptive designs, post-approval safety registries
- Statistical analysis plan (SAP) development and execution
- Quantitative methods — survey research, administrative data analysis, causal inference
- Qualitative research — NVivo, ATLAS.ti, focus group and interview methodology
- Federal data security and human subjects protection (IRB-grade protocols)
- Policy-relevant research products — peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, briefings
Service line 7 · NAICS 541512, 541715, 541990
Legacy Modernization
Sapphire moves agency analytics and business systems off ageing platforms, including COBOL, onto open, supported R and Python, and proves every regenerated output against the original before anything is retired. The work is delivered with Stateam's Parity evidence platform, so each converted program carries its own audit trail.
- Inventory and risk assessment of legacy code, naming each construct that behaves differently on the new platform, by line number
- Conversion to R and Python, with written specifications before any code is written
- Cell-by-cell verification of regenerated outputs against the originals, at zero tolerance by default
- Exact decimal handling for financial COBOL workloads, so money does not change at the cent
- Tamper-evident run records, pinned software environments and container images for multi-year reproducibility
- Validation support (IQ, OQ and PQ) and parallel runs before legacy systems are decommissioned
- Fully offline operation, including on air-gapped networks
Reference
NAICS code coverage
Sapphire holds active SAM.gov registrations across the NAICS codes listed below. Federal contracting officers should verify size standard applicability for the specific code under which a procurement is conducted.
| NAICS | Title | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| 541715 | R&D — Physical, Engineering & Life Sciences (excl. Nano/Biotech) | Primary |
| 541611 | Administrative Management & General Management Consulting | Secondary |
| 541614 | Process, Physical Distribution & Logistics Consulting | Secondary |
| 541618 | Other Management Consulting Services | Secondary |
| 541620 | Environmental Consulting Services | Secondary |
| 541330 | Engineering Services support | Secondary |
| 541720 | R&D in Social Sciences & Humanities | Secondary |
| 541714 | R&D in Biotechnology (excl. Nanobiotechnology) | Secondary |
| 541910 | Marketing Research & Public Opinion Polling | Secondary |
| 541990 | All Other Professional, Scientific & Technical Services | Secondary |
| 541512 | Computer Systems Design Services | Secondary |
| 541380 | Testing Laboratories | Secondary |
| 561210 | Facilities Support Services | Secondary |
| 561320 | Temporary Help Services | Secondary |
| 541612 | Human Resources Consulting Services | Secondary |