Keep your DoD contracts. Walk in knowing the outcome.
CMMC is now a condition of doing business in the Defense Industrial Base, and it punishes improvisation. We take contractors and subcontractors from first scoping through mock assessment, with Certified CMMC Professionals, Certified CMMC Assessors, and a Lead CCA on staff. Your preparation is run by people credentialed to sit on the other side of the table.
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Who this is for
Defense contractors and subcontractors handling Federal Contract Information or Controlled Unclassified Information, at any stage: seeing CMMC clauses in a solicitation for the first time, partway through NIST 800-171 implementation, staring at a negative SPRS score, or holding a scheduled C3PAO assessment date and needing to know, before the assessors arrive, that the answer is yes. Also universities and research organizations with defense-funded work discovering that CUI obligations reach them too.
The problem
CMMC failures are rarely security failures; they are preparation failures. Scope it wrong and you certify more environment than you need to, at real and recurring cost. Document controls thin and things you actually do still score as not met, because in an assessment, undocumented is unimplemented. And unlike most frameworks, key CMMC requirements are not POA&M eligible: certain findings cannot be fixed after the fact, they simply fail. The contractors who struggle are not the careless ones. They are the ones who treated the assessment as a formality and learned the scoring rules on assessment day.
What is included
- Applicability and level determination (Level 1 vs Level 2) based on your contracts and the data you actually touch.
- Scoping and asset categorization, including enclave strategies that shrink the assessment boundary, the remediation bill, and the assessment cost.
- Gap assessment against NIST SP 800-171, with SPRS score calculation, basis of estimate, and submission support.
- System Security Plan and POA&M development that assessors can navigate, mapped to how the requirements are actually scored.
- Remediation across all 14 control families, prioritized by assessment risk and POA&M eligibility.
- C3PAO preparedness: evidence check and review, artifact organization, and interview preparation for your control owners.
- Mock assessments conducted with the rigor, scoring, and interview pressure of the real thing, run by credentialed CMMC assessors.
What you walk away with
- A defensible scope, and where appropriate, an enclave architecture that contains it.
- A current, accurate SPRS score with the documentation to stand behind it.
- An SSP and evidence library organized the way assessors consume them.
- A mock assessment report that tells you, while it is still cheap to fix, exactly what would trend not-met and why.
- An assessment day that confirms the outcome instead of discovering it.
FAQs
Q. Do you perform the actual CMMC certification assessment?
No, and that is deliberate. Certification assessments are conducted by authorized C3PAOs, and a firm that prepares you should not also grade you. We prepare you for the C3PAO: readiness, evidence, and mock assessment, with no conflict of interest.
Q. What do CCP, CCA, and Lead CCA credentials on staff mean for us?
The people reviewing your evidence and running your mock assessment hold the same credentials as the people who will conduct your real one. Your preparation reflects how assessments are actually scored, not a consultant’s guess at it.
Q. We are a small subcontractor. Does CMMC really apply to us?
If your contracts flow down the DFARS clauses and you handle FCI or CUI, yes, regardless of size. The good news: small environments are often the easiest to scope tightly, which keeps both remediation and assessment costs down. A short scoping conversation settles it.
Q. What is an SPRS score and why does it matter now?
SPRS is the DoD database where your NIST 800-171 self-assessment score lives, and primes increasingly check it before awarding work. Many organizations discover their honest score is negative, which is normal for a first calculation and fixable. We calculate it accurately, submit it properly, and build the plan that raises it.