Federal services company

Small enough to answer the phone. Structured to survive an audit.

Harrier Federal is being organised to provide professional and technical services to federal agencies — the operational, administrative and technical work that keeps programmes running, delivered by a company built from the outset to meet the compliance obligations that come with the customer.

Professional and technical servicesAuditable from day oneIn formation

Premise

Why compliance comes before capability.

The reason competent small companies lose federal work is rarely capability.

It is that the accounting system cannot produce what an auditor asks for, the timekeeping does not hold up, or a certification was claimed a little ahead of when it was actually granted.

Harrier Federal is being built the other way round: the record-keeping, the timekeeping discipline and the registrations first, so that the claims made later are ones the file supports.

What the work actually is

A team reviewing documents around a table — **People**Programme support is mostly documentation, coordination, records and the reporting nobody volunteers for.

Stacked paper files and folders — **The file**The file is what an auditor examines. It is the deliverable, whatever the statement of work says.

Network cabling in a communications rack — **Technical services**Technical work that sits alongside a programme rather than inside a major system.

Sequence

Fig. 01Registrations and certifications precede pursuit — not the other way round.

Back office

An auditable back office, from the first invoice.

Timekeeping, cost records and subcontract administration built to be examined, starting before there is anything to examine. Retrofitting an accounting system to an auditor’s question is where small contractors lose money they have already earned.

The first invoice is the one that establishes whether the file will hold.

Fig. 02The chain an auditor walks, and where it usually snaps.

Claims the file supports.

A capability is described as a capability when the company can demonstrate it, and as an intention when it cannot. The same rule applies to certifications: any socioeconomic programme is claimed only once it has actually been awarded, and never in anticipation.

This page is written under that rule. Everything above is an intention, and is labelled as one.

Fig. 03The test applied to every statement the company makes.

Intended service areas

Programme and administrative support

The operational work behind a programme: documentation, coordination, records and reporting.

Technical services

Systems support, data handling and the technical tasks that sit alongside a programme rather than inside a major system.

Facilities and logistics support

Recurring, schedule-driven work where reliability and a clean record matter more than novelty.

Operating rules

How we intend to operate.

Registrations before pursuitRequired federal registrations completed and current before any solicitation is pursued.
An auditable back officeTimekeeping, cost records and subcontract administration built to be examined, from the first invoice.
Certifications claimed only when grantedAny socioeconomic programme is claimed only once it has actually been awarded, and never in anticipation.
Scope honestly statedA capability is described as a capability when the company can demonstrate it, and as an intention when it cannot.

Status

Where the company stands today.

Harrier Federal is in formation. It holds no contracts, no certifications and no federal registrations at this time, and intends to pursue applicable small business programmes only once eligibility is established.

Contact details will be published here once the company is formed.