Most firms bidding this study will be one or the other: a local generalist, or a national compensation shop parachuting in. This team is both at once, with a clean line between who is accountable and who does the analysis.
House Strategies Group primes — and the classification-and-compensation experience and the three references the RFI asks for are HSG’s own past performance, not a subcontractor’s. The firm that answers to the Commission is the one that holds the exact credentials the scope requires.
Riley McGuire Partners — a Louisville-based, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business led by a Kentucky-barred attorney — joins as the Kentucky subcontractor: in-state coordination, on-the-ground logistics with the courts and legislature, and veteran-owned participation the Commonwealth values. Local presence, without giving up the specialized practice that does the work.
House Strategies Group’s specialty is public-sector compensation and classification — the same five-objective work this RFI describes. The methodology is led by a Certified Job Evaluator and Fortune-100 compensation analysts, not repurposed from an unrelated discipline.
These findings go to the Appropriations & Revenue committee. Our method is sourced, phased, and auditable — every figure traces to its survey and date, and the cost analysis is framed as options a legislature can actually choose among.
This portal is not a brochure — it is the analysis, running. The Commission can test a compensation philosophy, watch pay ranges move, and read the full response before a contract is signed. Most competitors will hand you a PDF and ask you to imagine it.
No ambiguity about who answers to the Commission. HSG owns the relationship, the schedule, the reporting, and the analysis as prime; RMP supports locally as the Kentucky subcontractor. The structure is simple on purpose — it is how the study stays on time and on message.
A specialized compensation and classification prime holding the qualifying experience and references, a Kentucky veteran-owned subcontractor keeping it local, and a live portal proving the method before you commit.