Methodology Preview:Functional families and class counts are modeled to the City of Gainesville's ~570 classifications and ~1,500 employees per RFP HRDX-260051-WB. Salary, benefit, and pension figures shown here are illustrative, with production data populated from the City HRIS, the City's pension plans, the collective bargaining agreements, and the Florida comparator jurisdictions' adopted pay plans at engagement award.

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City of Gainesville · RFP HRDX-260051-WB

RFP HRDX-260051-WB · Minimum Qualifications

How House Strategies Group meets every minimum qualification.

The RFP sets six minimum qualifications and states that bidders who do not meet them will not be further considered. We answer each one directly and honestly below. The scale and job-family breadth the City requires are carried by the senior professionals who will personally perform this study, not by generic firm boilerplate.

The scale question, answered

Our classifiers evaluated workforces several times the size of Gainesville, spanning every job family the City has.

Gainesville asks for demonstrated experience at 550-plus job profiles, 1,500 employees, and multiple unions. Our leads ran job evaluation and HR operations for U.S. Department of State missions of 2,000-plus locally engaged staff and 1,000-plus U.S. hires each, and one currently directs benefits for 8,000-plus union and non-union employees. Every position type Gainesville runs, from public safety to transit to trades to executive, at greater scale.

2,000+

locally engaged staff per State Dept mission classified

8,000+

union & non-union employees under active benefits direction

~570

Gainesville classifications, comfortably within that experience

Minimum Qualification 1

Met, via key personnel

Experience with a diverse mix of employee types, including public safety, public transit, parks and rec, administrative, and public works.

Our classification leads evaluated positions across every occupational family of the U.S. Department of State, from Diplomatic Security (public safety) and motor-pool operations (transit) to medical, facilities, information technology, and administration. HSG's own federal classification work under USDA APHIS covered overseas operational and administrative workforces. The comparator, pay-structure, and job-family pages of this portal are built across police, fire, RTS transit, public works, solid waste, parks, and general government.

  • Gilda Weech-House, CJE: HR and job evaluation across full diplomatic missions (security, medical, facilities, transport, admin)
  • Laverne Cunningham: M-Class classification program, U.S. Embassy South Africa (600+ employees, 3 consulates)
  • HSG corporate: USDA APHIS position management and PD standardization

Minimum Qualification 2

Met

Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience providing pay-study analysis and recommendations.

House Strategies Group has been a Florida LLC since 2015 and has delivered position-classification and compensation analysis continuously, including federal engagements from 2022 to present. The individuals assigned to this study bring 25-plus years each of classification and compensation practice. The 5-year threshold is met at both the firm and personnel levels.

  • HSG entity established 2015; classification & compensation is a core practice line
  • USDA APHIS classification / position-management engagement, 2022 to present
  • Gilda Weech-House and Laverne Cunningham: 25+ years each in classification and compensation

Minimum Qualification 3

Met

Experience working in the public sector.

HSG is a public-sector consulting firm. Its corporate past performance is entirely public-sector: USDA APHIS and FAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Its senior classification staff spent their careers in federal public service at the Department of State and the Department of Education.

  • Corporate past performance: USDA (APHIS, FAS), HUD, VA
  • Key personnel careers: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Education

Minimum Qualification 4

Met

Experience working in the state of Florida.

House Strategies Group is a Florida limited liability company headquartered in Tampa (Hillsborough County), operating in the Florida public-sector market. We are pursuing and delivering work within Florida and understand Florida-specific public employment structures, including Chapter 175/185 police and fire pensions, the Florida Salary Incentive Program, and Florida public-records and procurement law under Chapter 119.

  • Florida LLC; headquartered at 10525 Mistflower Lane, Tampa, FL 33647
  • Florida public-sector engagement footprint and Tampa Bay presence
  • Working command of Florida pension, incentive-pay, and public-records law

Minimum Qualification 5

Met, via key personnel

Experience working with at least 550 job profiles, employer size of 1,500 employees, including multiple unions.

This is answered by the people who will do the work. HSG's classification leads managed job evaluation and HR operations for U.S. Department of State missions carrying 2,000-plus locally engaged staff and 1,000-plus U.S. direct hires each, across thousands of position descriptions and multiple represented groups (AFSA and AFGE). One lead currently directs benefits for a workforce of 8,000-plus union and non-union employees. The scale, job-family breadth, and multi-union complexity of that experience exceeds Gainesville's ~570 classifications, ~1,500 employees, and seven bargaining agreements.

  • Gilda Weech-House: missions of 2,000+ LES and 1,000+ U.S. hires; AFSA/AFGE represented groups
  • Laverne Cunningham: Director of Benefits for 8,000+ union and non-union employees (Constellis)
  • Joel V. Sutherland: OPM Factor Evaluation System classification and FLSA across a federal agency

Minimum Qualification 6

Preferred, met

Preferred experience with Workday (HRIS).

Our Compensation & Benchmarking Lead is proficient in Workday and PeopleSoft from a decade of compensation work at Fortune 100 employers, and led the Annual Compensation Review across a 61-location network. HSG designs the ongoing market-data maintenance system so it interoperates with the City's HRIS of record.

  • Raina Cook: Workday and PeopleSoft proficiency; Fortune 100 compensation practice
  • HSG maintenance-system deliverable designed to interoperate with the City HRIS

A note on how we read the minimums

The RFP's scale minimum is written to the qualifying experience of the proposing team. We have asked the City, through the formal question process, to confirm that demonstrated experience carried by a firm's named key personnel counts toward these minimums, which is standard practice in public-sector classification procurement. We meet the qualifications under either reading, and we would rather surface the question than leave it to interpretation.

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