US Federal Government
WHAT IS THE A&M FEDERAL PRACTICE?
The team of dedicated federal government experts at Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) boasts a deep understanding of the unique mission and operational challenges that agencies face today and into the future. A&M Federal Practice is equipped to drive strategic improvements that are both effective and sustainable, ensuring that federal agencies are well-positioned to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century.
WHO DO WE SERVE?
A&M Federal integrates mission and domain expertise to drive tangible enhancements across federal government sectors:
- Public Service: Enhancing Efficiency – In the face of evolving societal needs, agencies are tasked with modernizing operations to serve the public more effectively. By embracing innovative technologies and streamlining processes, we are committed to transforming public service delivery, ensuring accessibility and improving satisfaction across all government interactions.
- Defense and Security: Securing Tomorrow – Defense sectors are confronted with sophisticated security challenges originating abroad. To win the competition of today and maintain a strategic advantage to ensure resilience, a nuanced approach to hybrid warfare and technology is essential, with positioning to outmaneuver the adversaries of tomorrow.
- Federal Health: Access to Excellence – To address post-pandemic challenges across America’s public healthcare sector, our focus shifts toward engineering rapid-response and digitally-enabled strategies that enhance affordability and elevate patient experiences in the public sector.
WHAT ARE OUR CLIENTS’ NEEDS?
A&M Federal brings best-in-class commercial practices and tailors them to the realities of governmental operating environments, implementing solutions that are innovative and actionable. Our areas of focus include:
Strategic Cost Optimization: Efficiency Through Insight – Addressing the critical challenges of rising costs, budget constraints and continuing resolutions, A&M is helping federal agencies achieve real, practical cost savings by leveraging leading commercial practices and renegotiating strategies to enable budget reallocation opportunities..
Digital Enablement: Innovating for Impact – Confronting the operating imperative to move to a digital world and executive orders on AI, federal agencies can benefit from strategic deployments of AI copilots and rapid digital services to invest in innovation speed and customer experience.
Future-Ready Transformation: Evolving for Tomorrow – With rapidly evolving missions, organizations face structures and processes no longer suited to achieving today’s priorities. Federal agencies have an opportunity to reimagine and realign their internal operations to boost agility and proactively meet mission demands, preparing for the future.
Hybrid Diligence Hub: Rapid and Thorough – Financial grants, incentives, and loans stimulate investment and carry economic and security risks. Merging capital markets expertise with a structured due diligence approach, A&M has shown the way to accelerate commercialization through strategic networks without compromising depth and quality.
Strategic Cost Optimization: Efficiency Through Insight – Addressing the critical challenges of rising costs, budget constraints and continuing resolutions, A&M is helping federal agencies achieve real, practical cost savings by leveraging leading commercial practices and renegotiating strategies to enable budget reallocation opportunities..
Digital Enablement: Innovating for Impact – Confronting the operating imperative to move to a digital world and executive orders on AI, federal agencies can benefit from strategic deployments of AI copilots and rapid digital services to invest in innovation speed and customer experience.
Future-Ready Transformation: Evolving for Tomorrow – With rapidly evolving missions, organizations face structures and processes no longer suited to achieving today’s priorities. Federal agencies have an opportunity to reimagine and realign their internal operations to boost agility and proactively meet mission demands, preparing for the future.
Hybrid Diligence Hub: Rapid and Thorough – Financial grants, incentives, and loans stimulate investment and carry economic and security risks. Merging capital markets expertise with a structured due diligence approach, A&M has shown the way to accelerate commercialization through strategic networks without compromising depth and quality.
Strategic Sourcing: Value-Driven Procurement – Policy and technological advancements have altered the procurement landscape, presenting efficiency challenges and opportunities that require innovative acquisition strategies to streamline workflow processes and capitalize on strategic sourcing initiatives. A&M merges government procurement expertise with leading commercial practices to deliver real cost savings.
Resilient Infrastructure Development: Building the Future – Rapidly advancing technology has outpaced the capabilities of aging infrastructure. Creating a blueprint to guide investment plans for future infrastructure is essential, mapping a prioritization of investments for critical government facilities, master plans and geographies.
Workforce Renaissance: Reimagining Work and Talent – Facing vacant offices and talent attrition, federal agencies are changing with hybrid workspaces and evolving talent pipelines. By creating flexible, technology-driven environments and prioritizing recruitment and retention, we’re building a more adaptable, engaging and competitive workplace that is prepared to navigate the future of work.
Commercial Acceleration Strategy: Scaling Innovation – Rapidly accelerating technology development for broader application has challenged the government in how to transcend the limitations of minimum viable products (MVPs) to programs of record. Harnessing commercial accelerators, new venture incubation and embedded entrepreneurial initiatives lays the groundwork to scale innovation and de-risk inefficiencies.
Strategic Sourcing: Value-Driven Procurement – Policy and technological advancements have altered the procurement landscape, presenting efficiency challenges and opportunities that require innovative acquisition strategies to streamline workflow processes and capitalize on strategic sourcing initiatives. A&M merges government procurement expertise with leading commercial practices to deliver real cost savings.
Resilient Infrastructure Development: Building the Future – Rapidly advancing technology has outpaced the capabilities of aging infrastructure. Creating a blueprint to guide investment plans for future infrastructure is essential, mapping a prioritization of investments for critical government facilities, master plans and geographies.
Workforce Renaissance: Reimagining Work and Talent – Facing vacant offices and talent attrition, federal agencies are changing with hybrid workspaces and evolving talent pipelines. By creating flexible, technology-driven environments and prioritizing recruitment and retention, we’re building a more adaptable, engaging and competitive workplace that is prepared to navigate the future of work.
Commercial Acceleration Strategy: Scaling Innovation – Rapidly accelerating technology development for broader application has challenged the government in how to transcend the limitations of minimum viable products (MVPs) to programs of record. Harnessing commercial accelerators, new venture incubation and embedded entrepreneurial initiatives lays the groundwork to scale innovation and de-risk inefficiencies.
WHAT SOLUTIONS HAVE BENEFITED OUR CLIENTS?
1. Public Service Client
- Overview: The impact of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), combined with a 28 percent volume reduction between fiscal year (FY) 2006 and FY 2016 and an unfavorable product mix shift, caused a significantly worsened financial condition for USPS. From FY 2007 through FY 2016, USPS’s cumulative net income was negative $63 million; losses were expected to continue into the foreseeable future. A&M performed an assessment of the end-to-end supply chain, network optimization, logistics and processing, and retail operations.
- Outcome: A&M identified 11 recommended initiatives, with implementation guidance to drive $100 million+ of potential savings each year, including more efficient management of transportation spending, improved automation, realignment of staff to workload, expanded self-service kiosks, and carrier route and collection box optimization. The recommended initiatives totaled $2.6 billion in average annual savings, including over $900 million under current legal, regulatory and labor constraints.
2. Defense and Security Client
- Overview: A defense and security client needed to improve collaboration with mission partners, reduce complexity across divisions and increase operational effectiveness in the delivery of advanced technology. To realize these outcomes, A&M was brought on to define, design and implement a new organizational strategy, structure and operating model.
- Outcome: A&M’s proprietary organizational fitness assessment identified opportunities to increase speed-to-value. These included assessing the client’s distributed/remote workforce across multiple locations and partners including academia, industry and research labs to identify areas for increased collaboration and flexibility. A&M addressed these opportunities with benchmarks, surveys and research to develop recommendations for building a customer-centric culture focused on operational excellence. A&M delivered an integrated improvement implementation roadmap with action plans by workstreams to drive collaboration and accountability.
3. Public Service Client
- Overview: A federal credit program offered secured direct loans, loan guarantees and standby lines of credit to borrowers, aiming to develop significant development projects in the transportation sector. Given the complexity of loans in this sector, the client needed to understand the intricacies and challenges associated with restructuring loans issued under the government program, and explore strategic alternatives for investments.
- Outcomes: A&M conducted a review of transportation loans issued under the government loan program that had been restructured in order to develop “lessons learned” for future restructuring situations. Additionally, A&M provided financial advisory services with respect to holdings for a sector that emerged recently from bankruptcy and strategic alternatives to investments in this area.
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INSIGHTS
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