Mentor
Acuity, Inc.
An SBA 8(a) graduate with a twenty-four-year record of federal IT delivery, focused on the national security and public safety mission.
SBA Mentor-Protégé Joint Venture
A small business with an institution behind it.
You should not have to choose between meeting a small-business goal and hiring a team that has done the work before. That is the entire reason these two firms are on one contract.
8(a)
Sole-source and set-aside eligible
Acuity-Reliable LLC
14
Federal agencies with prime contract awards
Acuity, Inc.
7
Concurrent DHS contracts delivered as a subcontractor, plus the Federal Reserve Board
Reliable Cloud Services
CMMI 3
Plus ISO 9001, 20000-1 and 27001
Acuity, Inc.
The two firms
Each parent brings something the other cannot. Between them they have delivered inside more than a dozen federal agencies. Every claim below is attributed to the firm that earned it; the joint venture does not inherit past performance by association.
Protégé · Managing venturer
Reliable Cloud Services LLC
An SBA 8(a) certified Small Disadvantaged Business delivering DevSecOps, continuous ATO and platform engineering inside federal mission environments.
Reliable Cloud Services — delivered inside
- USCISU.S. Citizenship & Immigration ServicesDHS
- HSIHomeland Security InvestigationsDHS
- TSATransportation Security AdministrationDHS
- FRBFederal Reserve Board of GovernorsIndependent
Acuity, Inc. — prime contract awards
- STATEDepartment of State62 awards
- DHSDepartment of Homeland Security24 awards
- DOJDepartment of JusticeCabinet
- TREASDepartment of the TreasuryCabinet
Plus Defense, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, Education, Health & Human Services, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Small Business Administration and GSA — fourteen federal agencies in total.
Prime contract awards, 2005–2025. Source: USASpending.gov, UEI WYZXSVNJ3S87. Excludes work performed as a subcontractor or through Acuity’s other joint ventures, which is not reported under this identifier. Acuity separately states it has served eleven of the fifteen cabinet-level agencies in national security and public safety, a broader count that includes engagements not reported as prime awards under this identifier.
Capabilities
Six practices. The engineers behind them are doing this work inside federal agencies right now, on contracts that started before this venture existed.
01
Federal IT Consulting
Governance that makes delivery an enterprise standard.
02
Cloud
Migration, architecture, FinOps and managed operations.
03
Cybersecurity
Zero trust, continuous ATO and compliance as code.
04
AI / ML
MLOps platforms delivered in a mission environment.
05
Data
Engineering, governance and analytics you can defend.
06
Modernization
Legacy replaced incrementally, architected for reuse.
Delivered
What that has looked like
Two numbers, not a page of adjectives. Both were earned by Reliable Cloud Services and are attributed to it; the joint venture does not inherit past performance by association.
75+
programs aligned to one set of published DevSecOps practices, because technical governance and Team Managed Deployment sat at the organization level rather than inside a single program
USCIS · Reliable Cloud Services
65%
lower running cost, without taking anything away. We matched GPUs and infrastructure to what each AI/ML workload actually needed, so the engineers came out better equipped, not rationed, and the bill fell as a consequence
HSI · Reliable Cloud Services
The seventh practice
The one that is not on anyone else’s list
Six practices is what every firm on your solicitation will list. This is the one we were built around, and it is the reason customers keep us.
Federal programs rarely fail because a team could not build the thing. They fail because two teams built it separately, a third did not know either existed, and the security office found out at the end.
The budget gets spent twice, and nobody writes that down as the reason.
No black box
We do not train your staff, and we are not trying to. We explain: what we are building, why this way and not another, and how other agencies have solved the same thing. Every claim is backed by the provider’s own documentation rather than our opinion, and every phase ends in a working demo, including the tests we ran against it. Security, availability and cost sit in each of those conversations instead of arriving as a review at the end.
The point is not comfort.
Your people can defend the architecture after we roll off — to their leadership, to an auditor, and to whoever holds the contract next.
From ad-hoc delivery to enterprise-scale execution
Most agencies do not have a tooling problem. They have a consistency problem: twelve teams, twelve pipelines, twelve interpretations of what “secure” means, and a security office trying to audit all of it by hand. Often two of those teams are solving the same problem without knowing the other exists.
We specialize in Technical Governance and Team Managed Deployment: establishing repeatable DevSecOps patterns that teams adopt because they are faster than rolling their own, with quality, security and compliance enforced by the pipeline rather than by review meetings.
Where agencies start
- Every team builds its own pipeline
- Security reviewed at the end, by hand
- Compliance evidence assembled for each audit
- Standards written down, unevenly applied
- Onboarding a new team starts from zero
Where governance takes them
- One paved road, adopted because it is faster
- SAST, SCA, DAST and policy enforced in-pipeline
- Compliance evidence produced continuously
- Standards enforced by the platform, not the meeting
- A new team inherits the whole toolchain on day one
Automation is the easy half. Getting twelve teams onto the same paved road is the hard half, and it is what keeps working after we roll off.
Why this venture
Three questions decide whether a small business gets on contract. This one has an answer to each.
Access
Contract paths that already exist
8(a) sole-source and set-aside eligibility, plus subcontracting credit for primes working toward small-business goals.
“How do I buy from you?”
Maturity
Process a prime would recognize
Our mentor holds its appraisals through a dedicated corporate performance office, which is the difference between passing an audit and being ready for one.
“Will you survive an audit?”
Mission
Engineers who have been inside
Seven concurrent DHS contracts across USCIS, HSI and TSA, delivered as a subcontractor to the primes holding them, plus cloud administration, standardization and enablement for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Continuous ATO with automated RMF evidence, container platforms and Kubernetes at enterprise scale, MLOps in production, and governance dashboards covering hundreds of applications, all of it under real ATO pressure.
This venture is how you put that team on contract directly.
“Have you done my job before?”
The quickest way to find out
Describe the work and the date it has to happen by. If this venture is not the right fit, that is the first thing you will hear, and you will hear it quickly.
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