Grindstone serves as your organization's liaison to the federal government, including Congress, the military services, federal agencies and sub-agencies, such as the national laboratories. We can bolster the capabilities of your current government relations team or serve as an out-sourced government affairs office, thereby saving you the substantial expense of leasing office space, paying for equipment, supplies, employee benefits, etc.
Our services include government affairs consulting, sales and marketing, lobbying, climate change consulting and business development. For example:
We keep you apprised of current legislative and regulatory developments that affect your organization's bottom line;
We use our contacts and expertise to ensure that your organization's interests are best represented within the halls of Congress as well as the federal agencies;
We identify new markets within the federal government for your products and services;
We develop and implement strategies to market and sell your products and services to the federal government, the largest customer in the world;
We develop and implement strategies to utilize government programs that benefit your company, from federal appropriations to research and development funding to federal loan guarantees to subsidies and tax incentives;
When applicable, we build commercial teaming arrangements that strengthen your position within the federal market; and
We provide an analysis of how the complex climate change legislation currently moving through the U.S. Congress may affect your business. We will identify whether you are a covered entity under the proposed measures, how you must comply, and, perhaps most importantly, how your organization can prosper from the legislation once enacted.
Moreover, we are available 24 hours a day/7 days a week! Your business runs around the clock and thus so do we.
Finally, you can rest assured that when we are representing your interests, we are operating at the highest levels of integrity, the same standards you apply to your employees.
