Platinum is built on the financial governance principles derived from the General Accountability Office (GAO).
Our acquisition and financial management procedures assist in evaluating the soundness of a given business or technical investment. Our Financial Management Program consists of four interdependent components: senior management support, policy management policies and procedures, quantifiable performance metrics, and analyses. Our federally compliant Program and Project Management metrics can be used to progressively measure implementation, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Platinum has consultants with advanced degrees and certifications in a range of subject areas, including:
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Amazon Web Services Professionals (AWS)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Certified Developers for Agile and SCRUM
- Certified Information Systems Security Manager (CISM)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
- Certified Governance of Enterprise Information Technology (CGEIT)
- Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
- Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)
- Certified Internal Auditors (CIAs)
- Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE)
Platinum’s cache of federal acquisitions experience is a pace with every step of the acquisitions process from pre-solicitation activities to contract award. Our seasoned acquisition specialists are well acquainted with the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) and mission-minded through every phase of the process. We offer market research, strategic planning and development of acquisition strategies, policy development, solicitation drafting, source selection support, and contract administration. Our clients trust us to secure the greatest value to their agency/organization and play a critical role in achieving mission-critical goals. Platinum has an acute understanding of budget formulation and agency capability. Our clients trust us with this vital step in securing financial resources and maintaining capacity, accountability, and stakeholder satisfaction. Platinum’s capabilities cover the full spectrum of grants management activities. We offer research and development support for grants environment policy and procedures as well as tracking and reporting in accordance with industry standards and funding source requirements. Platinum conducted feasibility review for the Data Act and USA Spending to support that integration of Federal-wide e-commerce processes for grants awards, payments and accounting. Platinum’s operations and cost analysis services are designed to evaluate the cost, benefit, and risk of different technologies, policies, processes, and complex systems.
Financial compliance is an essential factor in maintaining the accountability citizens expect from government and the private sector alike. Federal regulatory measures provide for responsible stewardship of public funds, but maintaining conscientious compliance can be a challenge. Platinum has ample knowledge of relevant financial requirements and proven experience in consolidating them into comprehensible guidance across the multiple levels of an agency.
Platinum believes in constant innovation. We seek out ways to better predict financial ability and plan for financial management. The rapid pace of technological advancement and the concurrent acceleration of financial complexity has left many financial systems underequipped for today’s financial challenges.
Platinum’s Program Management Support experience spans a wide variety of sectors and levels of government. We utilize tools and managerial processes that adhere to the highest industry standards and produce undeniably positive results for our clients. We have a proven track record of completing projects, on-time, within budget, and at a service level that exceeds expectation.
Platinum understands that Internal Control is essential for ensuring the effectiveness of established processes, the reliability of financial reporting, and the level of compliance with applicable policies and regulations. The benefits of transitioning to shared services include the reduction of a common resource, usually accompanied by a corresponding reduction of cost, and an increase in efficiency due to specialization and standardization.Platinum implements essential GRC principles thought the full-lifecycle of our services in order to lower risk to the agency and increase operational effectiveness.
Each step is designed to lower risk to the agency and increase operational effectiveness. This framework has been used successfully in numerous industries as well as federal agencies.
Platinum’s training devices are commercially-available off-the-shelf training devices available in a stand-alone format or ancillary to other services. They include software programs, teaching machines and devices, simulators such as driving simulators, flight simulators, etc., prepared printed instructional material, medical models and simulators, prepared audio and visual instruction material and multimedia program kits.
Platinum will use our tested Enterprise Value Delivery (EVD) Project Integration Methodology (PIM) consisting of standards-based project, program, and portfolio management principles, templates and accelerators, to rapidly deploy the project management structures necessary to govern project execution and coordinate activities across the tasks. The PIM incorporates key concepts and methods promulgated by the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) International Standard, Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge® (PMBOK® Guide). Each of the functions is supported by ready-to-use templates and tools to drastically reduce deployment time.