Contract Number: CR001409
Contract Date: 08/01/2025 – 06/30/2030
Agreement: Competitive
Renewals: 1 5-year renewal remaining
Award Summary: Click RFP Number Field to view all awarded suppliers
eProcurement: N/A
RFP Number & Name: EI00335~2024RFP / Management & Strategic Consulting Services
Contract Availability: Higher Education; K-12

Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal is a leading global professional services firm dedicated to helping organizations tackle their most complex business issues, maximize stakeholder value, and deliver sustainable change. Privately held since its founding in 1983, clients select them for their deep expertise and proven ability to create and deliver practical solutions to their unique problems. Leveraging A&M’s restructuring heritage, their fact-driven, action-oriented approach empowers organizations to drive transformation and unlock value at every stage of growth. Their worldwide network extends across six continents, with over 12,000 people comprised of experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators, and industry authorities.

With a track record in recovery and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, governance, cost control, and operational excellence services, A&M is the leading partner supporting education clients by generating innovative and effective solutions to complex, mission-critical challenges, delivered with maximum efficiency and empowered by the best in human and technological innovation. Understanding the unique mission and cultural and regulatory context of education, A&M provides fact-based consulting services grounded in delivering objective analyses, actionable recommendations, and tangible improvements. They deploy senior, battle-tested advisors who will roll up their sleeves in support of fundamental decision-making, transformation, and change. 

Contract Differentiators
  • Takes a different approach to deliver lasting results: Hands-on, Experienced Leaders, Sense of Urgency, Bias for Action, Objective and Data-driven – That is the A&M Way. See the A&M Global Services Overview for more info on differentiators and integrated services. 
  • Former education CFOs, COOs, CROs, Principals, and seasoned domain leaders and consultants apply cross-sector insights to deliver tailored, data-driven solutions, transformative results, and sustainable value within the education ecosystem.
  • Delivers a full suite of integrated advisory and consulting services including: strategy, operational excellence, benchmarking, partnerships, student experience and enrollment, economic development, capital planning and executive coaching; corporate financial, tax, risk and audit, business valuation, grant management and compliance; and other value added services like financial crisis management planning, scenario planning and stress testing, implementation of new accounting standards, digital / AI transformation, and ESG. See the E&I Service Area to A&M Service Description Map for more details about in-scope A&M services. 
  • Can embed experts in leadership roles such as interim CEO, CFO, COO, CRO, CIO, CTO or CAIO to drive transformation from within.
  • With 30+ years of strategic consulting experience across early childhood, K–12, and higher education, A&M showcases proven results from engagements with small to mega public and private universities, academic medical centers/university health systems, K-12 districts, state educational agencies and the institutional and philanthropic organizations which support them. See A&M’s Management and Strategy Consulting Case Study Collection for more detail 
  • Offers fixed-fee, performance-based and time & materials pricing models, and a free ½ day working session with the Member’s board or executive team to formulate strategies regarding critical problems or initiatives to help members assess needs and explore tailored solutions.

Sustainability

A&M approaches sustainability as a journey embracing a spirit of continuous improvement. A&M is confident that their focus on the multiple dimensions of sustainability will contribute to a better society and enhance value for both their clients and their firm. (Learn More)

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Using the EBM, each of E&I’s more than 215 competitively solicited contracts have been scored with a Total Economic Benefit™ (TEB) to member institutions.

The TEB of this Alvarez & Marsal contract is in the range of 1.0-2.0%.

ECONOMIC BENEFIT MODEL

Total Economic Benefit of this Contract:

1.0-2.0%

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