SERVICE OFFERINGS

SONRI supports clients with identifying and assessing potential partnership vehicles for land utilization, identifying funding sources, and developing funding plans and proposals; conducting land transactions and leasing negotiations; and ensuring policy compliance.

Project and Scope Management 

SONRI provides overall project and scope management support through all project lifecycle phases, from initial project development through the final publication and presentation of the study, to ensure Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC)-funded Installation Readiness (IR) studies are completed on time and within budget.  

Solicitation Management 

SONRI supports grantee procurement departments in developing solicitations to seek the unique expert help needed to identify and address infrastructure vulnerabilities in communities that have impact on military readiness and lethality. We help with solicitation drafting, industry day meetings, and provide technical evaluation of solicitation responses for grantee’s use in selecting the most qualified candidates.

Subject Matter Expert Input

SONRI provides subject matter expert input into OLDCC-funded IR studies, primarily focusing on the need for mission assurance for both the military installation and local governments and utilities. 

Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC)

SONRI provides QA/QC oversight of the engineering and planning teams conducting the infrastructure studies funded by OLDCC IR grants. 

SONRI provides grant administration and reporting support to communities who lack the knowledge and capacity required to successfully deliver OLDCC IR studies. 

SONRI’s proprietary IR Grant Partner Cost Tracking and Reporting Tool © 2023 provides deliverable tracking, local match tracking and reporting, individual employee time and activity tracking, financial reporting laid out to match the OLDCC Grants Portal reporting format, and a dashboard that easily allows grantees to understand the financial status of the grant, including local match performance. SONRI’s tool comes as a value-added service to all SONRI client communities or is available to license with training and technical support. 

Energy Readiness

SONRI helps communities and installations cooperate to identify requirements and needs that would promote both mission assurance and community readiness. We develop strategic action and communications plans for the development of specific projects; develop funding strategies and support public finance actions to support project development; and provide partnership brokerage/solicitation support to help communities find the right partners to implement their visions.   

Workforce Housing

SONRI helps communities and installations collaborate to identify the root causes of workforce housing issues. We then work with communities to develop innovative project concepts to overcome those issues, develop funding plans to support those projects, and provide brokerage/solicitation services to bring those projects to market. 

Water/Wastewater

SONRI supports the study of issues and development of proposed solutions through Installation Readiness studies that meet not only community needs but also promote long-term mission viability and growth. We then work with communities to turn those studies into actions through grant writing and other public funding development strategies. 

Blanket IGSAs

SONRI brokered the first Air Force Blanket IGSA, and Meurer Municipal Consulting set the stage for the first Army Blanket IGSA. We provide concept development; economic analysis; agreement negotiation services; staffing and intergovernmental relations advice; and, once the IGSA is in place, broker the development task orders that promote mission capability, save the military money, provide revenue for the local or state government partner, and support economic development through military mission growth. 

SONRI's Bureaucratic Engagement Protocol© helps facilitators and key leaders of stakeholder groups overcome the numerous challenges that can impede productive collaboration. It is a tool for use in professionally facilitated processes that provides a framework in which to hold people responsible and accountable for timely and constructive work, ensure contributions to the working group, and provides for graduated consequences for obstruction, obfuscation, or delay.