QSM provides unparalleled support throughout the product acquisition, installation, and implementation process.
For nearly five decades, QSM has helped organizations bring data-driven discipline to software project estimation, tracking, and benchmarking. Our methodology and tools turn project complexity into measurable, defensible outcomes.
DoD Instruction 5000.02, “Operation of the Defense Acquisition System,” directs program managers to use technical performance measures and metrics to assess program progress, just as the Weapons System Acquisition Reform Act (WSARA) of 2009 addressed problems with unreasonable cost and schedule estimates by increasing emphasis on data measurement and metrics analysis.
QSM has a proud history in the Defense and Intelligence communities, using the science of estimation to deliver high-value support to our customers throughout their unique software acquisition and operations life cycles. In fact, QSM’s pioneering approach to measurement and estimation was born from company founder Larry Putnam Sr.’s work in the U.S. Army in the 1970s.
Today, the use of QSM SLIM® tools is recognized as a proven resource to support software cost estimation best practices by the Defense Acquisition University (DAU), and as a government software acquisition best practice by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Harnessing quantitative tools, metrics, and guidance is proven to help Defense and Intelligence decision-makers find success with cost, schedule, and performance goals.
Let us help you meet DoD requirements and build a path to success for your program.
For acquiring or delivering software and IT solutions.
QSM experts can provide a quantifiable assessment of your software project health
We can help your organization establish a quantitative vendor management process
QSM can provide a credible analysis of your software project costs.
Based on historical data, a quantitative project assessment that explores practical alternatives.
Provide insight to your software defect status against similar projects.
Harness the power of your organization’s software data to gain insights to best manage software development and support cost, schedule, and performance objectives.
Provides decision makers timely, practical alternatives to consider as realistic tradeoffs.
Our estimating and forecasting solutions serve as a GPS to navigate your way past uncertainty throughout a project’s life-cycle.
Realize the goal of more data-driven decisions by leveraging the power of your own performance metrics for realistic and accurate software estimation and development.
A government client hires QSM to perform a software productivity benchmark and learns they are overstaffing their projects. Cutting their team size in half enabled delivery of a higher quality product with twice as much functionality at a savings of $4.3M dollars.
Case Study · Government IT Developer
Large US Federal agency hires QSM to produce the quantitative evidence they need to terminate a bad contract, saving $30M. Institutionalized use of quantitative methods for acquisition and management of software projects saves over $25M.
Case Study · US Federal Government Agency with nearly 50,000 employees
US Federal agency leverages QSM Consulting and SLIM® estimation software to evaluate vendor bid for mission critical project. Analysis showed that the vendor proposal was unattainable; alternative plan reduced software project costs by $600K.
Case Study · US Federal Government Agency
GSA IT-70 Contract # GS-35F-319GA Period: March 24, 2017 — March 23, 2022 GSA Price List
GSA Professional Services Schedule (PSS) (MOBIS) Contract No. GSA GS-00F-140GA Period: March 9, 2017 — March 8, 2022
CIO-SP3 (OMB Authorized Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) as a subcontractor to SeKON
Department of Homeland Security Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge II Unrestricted (DHS Eagle II) as a subcontractor to LMI
Additionally, QSM qualifies as a Small Business under the SBA’s Table of Size Standards (1 Oct 2017) for all its NAICS codes: 611430, 511210, 511199, 519190, 541511, 541618, 541519, 541690, 541611, 541512.
Download QSM Executive Primer Historically, only 20% of software projects are completed successfully and with software becoming critical to nearly every company and industry, having such a high rate of failure is simply unacceptable anymore.
QSM helps Army save millions with software estimation and tracking solutions MCLEAN, VA, January 12, 2016 — Quantitative Software Management, Inc.
The Department of Defense continues its progressive move towards a quantitative data-driven approach in its acquisitions, enabling increased accountability.