Acquint / 8(a) Transition Intelligence
You’re graduating from 8(a).
Here’s what happens to your revenue.
60% of 8(a) graduates lose their federal contract base within 10 years. Acquint identifies exactly which contracts expire when and who you’re competing against — while you still have time to act.
Instant analysis
Enter your UEI to see your cliff analysis (from FPDS award data)
The numbers
The cliff
What your revenue looks like on graduation day
The companies that survive did one thing differently: they started competing in full-and-open 3+ years before graduation. By the time they crossed the cliff, competitive revenue already covered the gap.
Illustrative composite based on FPDS graduation cohort analysis. Individual trajectories vary by NAICS, agency concentration, and competitive pursuit activity.
What you get
Three ways to work with Acquint
One-time
Graduation Risk Diagnostic
Your cliff date. Every expiring set-aside contract. Full-and-open competitor map. Which agencies you could realistically win without a set-aside. Delivered as a 20-page PDF within 5 business days.
- Cliff date calculation from your SAM.gov entry date
- Contract-by-contract expiration timeline
- Competitor map — who wins your NAICS in full-and-open
- Survival score: 0–100 benchmark vs. graduates in your NAICS
- Top 5 recompete opportunities to pursue before graduation
- 20-page PDF + data export
Annual
Transition Intelligence Subscription
Continuous monitoring through your transition window. SAM.gov recompete alerts, teaming partner discovery, capture timelines, and a monthly intelligence brief on your competitive landscape.
- Everything in the Diagnostic, updated monthly
- SAM.gov new-solicitation alerts for your NAICS + incumbents
- Expiring IDV radar — 90/60/30-day warnings
- Teaming partner recommendations ranked by NAICS fit + past performance
- Monthly competitive intelligence brief
- Capture timeline builder for top 10 targets
- Unlimited analyst Q&A (email + Slack)
Success fee
Mentor-Protégé Matchmaking
We match you to large primes actively hunting mentor-protégé agreements in your NAICS. We score every candidate by capability fit, agency footprint overlap, and program history, then broker the introduction.
- Ranked shortlist of 5–10 prime candidates
- Capability fit scoring vs. your FPDS history
- Agency footprint overlap analysis
- Introduction and relationship facilitation
- Agreement term benchmarking from public MP agreements
- No fee until agreement is signed
Why now
The window is shorter than you think
Recompetes take 18–24 months from initial pursuit to contract award. If you start the day you graduate, your first full-and-open win lands 2 years after you lose set-aside eligibility.
The firms that survive graduation start competing 3–4 years before their cliff date. By the time the program ends, they have at least one competitive vehicle, at least one new agency relationship, and institutional knowledge of how to win without a preference.
Today — 4 years out
Full-and-open pursuit runway. Time to lose once and learn.
Today — 2 years out
Narrow window. Need to already have a target vehicle and teaming partner.
Graduation day
Set-aside eligibility ends. Competitive revenue gap opens.
+1 year post-graduation
Agency contracting officers treat you as a large business. Incumbency advantage gone.
Sample output
What your Diagnostic looks like
Below is a sample report for a mid-sized 8(a) IT services firm with 28 months until graduation. Every report is generated from your actual FPDS award history.
Pinnacle Federal Solutions LLC
Risk meter
Cliff exposure
Concentration risk: 78% of your revenue comes from 8(a) set-aside vehicles. When graduation occurs, this revenue base loses its protected status and must compete in full-and-open — often against firms 5–20× your size.
Competitive exposure by expiring contract
Competitors entering when set-asides end
- 1Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- 2SAIC (Science Applications International)
- 3Leidos Holdings Inc.
- 4CACI International Inc.
- 5Peraton Inc.
Full Diagnostic Report
Get your full 20-page Diagnostic Report
Contract-by-contract expiration timeline, full competitor map for each of your NAICS codes, survival score benchmarked against 2021–2026 graduate cohort, and top 5 recompete opportunities to pursue before graduation. Delivered as a 20-page PDF within 5 business days.
Free cliff assessment
Get your free cliff assessment
Enter your email and UEI (if known). We’ll run your FPDS history, identify your expiring set-aside contracts, and send you a one-page cliff summary within 24 hours — no obligation, no sales call unless you want one.