FEDERAL · STATE · MUNICIPAL
Government Work That Outlasts The People Who Commissioned It.
Human resources and organizational development for agencies, states, counties, cities and public authorities. A certified Women-Owned Small Business that has performed as prime contractor at the municipal level, as subcontractor to a prime, and directly for twenty federal offices across nine departments and agencies — with outcomes on the public record rather than on our word.
CONTRACT-READY AT A GLANCE
LEGAL NAME
TMS Business Consulting, Inc.
d/b/a TanaMSession.com
SAM UEI
M871GKP65R57
CAGE CODE
07E13
BUSINESS SIZE
Small
Under the SBA size standard for each NAICS listed below.
SBA CERTIFICATIONS
WOSB · EDWOSB
Certified February 2025
PRIMARY NAICS
541612
Human Resources Consulting Services
20
Federal offices, regions and centers we have delivered into, across nine departments and agencies.
~500
Classified positions in the citywide compensation and classification study we ran as prime.
Sub→Prime
Our path at the City of Richmond, in nineteen months
226→127
Days to fill a vacancy in that city, from its own published record.
If you are a contracting officer or program manager.
Everything you need to evaluate us sits on this page in text you can copy: identifiers, certifications, the codes we perform under, past performance by tier of government, and the routes by which we can be put under contract.
If you are a prime looking for a teaming partner.
A subcontract to TMS credits against the small business and women-owned small business goals in your subcontracting plan. We will provide a signed size and status representation before the teaming agreement rather than after it, and we have worked under a prime — including a GSA schedule holder — without needing to be taught how.
CORE COMPETENCIES
What We Are Actually Bought For.
Six things, not a menu. Government buyers are better served by a firm that says plainly what it does than by one that claims everything and specializes in nothing.
Organizational Assessment
How a department or function is actually built, and what it needs instead.
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Confidential employee climate and engagement surveys
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Employee and stakeholder interviews
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Facilitated focus groups
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HR function audits
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Structure and staffing recommendations
Workforce Training & Facilitator Development
Customized to the agency, the mission and the audience level — and where an agency wants the capability in house, we certify its own people to run the material without us.
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Supervisory and managerial development
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Structured interviewing and selection practice
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Managing a multigenerational workforce
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Emotional intelligence and workplace communication
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Train-the-trainer certification, with workbook and facilitator guide
Classification & Compensation
Job architecture and pay structures that can survive a public adoption process.
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Classification specification analysis
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Position description rewrites
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Market and peer benchmarking
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Internal alignment and pay-practice review
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Analysis grouped by bargaining unit
Executive Coaching & Facilitation
One-on-one and group, on an ICF-approved methodology.
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360-degree feedback processes
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Written development plans
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Executive alignment sessions
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Town hall and listening session facilitation
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Leadership readouts
Organizational Development
Multi-year structure that keeps working after the engagement closes.
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Strategic plans with prioritized objectives, owners and targets
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OKR and KPI frameworks
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Council and committee charters and governance
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Policy and handbook development
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Service level agreements with measures
Change Management
Reorganizations, consolidations, leadership transitions and system implementations.
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Change strategy and sequencing
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Stakeholder management
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Staff transition support
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Succession planning
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Annual re-measurement
DIFFERENTIATORS
Why A Contracting Officer Picks A Firm This Size.
Large firms win government work on capacity. A boutique wins it on judgment and on who is actually in the room. Five things we would want you to weigh.
The person named in the proposal is the person who does the work.
Dr. Tana M. Session, JD leads every engagement personally and authors every report. Every federal session behind the past performance on this page was facilitated by her — no subcontracted trainer, no co-facilitator, no substitution between the proposal and the room.
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We build to the legal instrument, not to the slide.
Classifications sit in code. Pay plans are adopted by ordinance or by rule. Recommendations that cannot survive a public meeting, a union, a council and a legal review are not recommendations, they are opinions. In Richmond, the City Council voted to adopt our classification and compensation recommendations for the Council Liaison role in December 2023 and put the change through as legislation the following February. That is the path we draft for.
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Findings are collected so the organization cannot dismiss them.
Confidential surveys administered through a third party, paired with interviews across leadership, staff, budget and finance. Ninety-one percent of a city HR department answered ours. Fifty-eight employees of a roughly ninety-person federal regional office answered the next one, and a further forty registered for focus groups on top of it. Employees answer honestly because the instrument is not run by us or by you.
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We deliver on your platform, under your rules.
Adobe Connect, WebEx, ZoomGov, Microsoft Teams, client-hosted with us as alternate host — whichever your security posture requires, with a rehearsal before delivery. We have coordinated CART captioning through an agency's own reasonable-accommodation point of contact, delivered alongside an agency-supplied sign-language interpreter, issued completion certificates against rosters the client corrected and returned, and put course content through a formal agency civil-rights review before it ran.
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We leave instruments behind, not a report.
Position descriptions, service level agreements with measures, certification charts, facilitator workbooks and benchmarking structures your own staff can operate and update. A federal regional office took one recommendation out of the plan we delivered, stood up a standing twelve-member internal council using the recruitment language we supplied, and wrote to tell us so ten weeks later. In Richmond the sponsors moved on, the administration changed, the department restructured, and the instruments were still running. That is the whole test.
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PAST PERFORMANCE
Who Has Already Bought This.
Organized by tier of government, because that is how the buying differs. Where we were the prime we say so; where we were a subcontractor we say that too, because a contracting officer checks. Contract and order numbers, values, periods of performance, prime contractor details and contracting officer references are supplied on request and with any solicitation response.
Municipal
The deepest organizational work, and the tier where results are on the public record.
City of Richmond, Virginia
SUBCONTRACTOR, THEN PRIME
2022 – 2024 · three engagements
A capital city of roughly 4,000 employees and 226,000 residents, across three engagements and both branches of a Council–Mayor government. We entered in 2022 two tiers below the prime on someone else's contract. We returned in 2023 as a direct subcontractor to a prime. By October 2023 we held the citywide compensation and classification study as prime contractor in our own right, with our own City supplier number and purchase order, and an analytics partner subcontracted beneath us. Nineteen months from the third tier of a subcontract chain to the top of one.
For the administration. An assessment of how the human resources department was actually built — a confidential employee survey at a 91 percent response rate, interviews running from the Mayor and the Chief Administrative Officer down to staff already on their way out, and a review of the department's own prior audits and budget history. It produced a redesigned structure with new division chief roles for talent acquisition, employee relations and benefits; eighteen rewritten position descriptions; an HR service level agreement with performance measures; and a recommended professional certification chart. Then, as prime, a citywide study of approximately 500 uniquely classified positions — a peer pool of 226 cities and counties narrowed by cluster analysis to twenty and then to four neighboring localities, with positions grouped along the City's own eight collective bargaining sets rather than a generic job-family model, and fifty roles identified for adjustment.
For the City Council. A market and compensation analysis of the Council Liaison classification, built from seventeen interviews and job audits covering all nine incumbents, two thirds of the Council and four external stakeholders, with nine peer municipalities profiled in depth and twenty ranked — delivered as a sixty-seven page report with eleven appendices and presented in closed session to the Council's Organizational Development Standing Committee. The Council voted to adopt the recommendations on 27 December 2023, reclassifying the role and moving compensation to the midpoint of the range we recommended, and the change went forward as legislation in February 2024.
The City publishes its own workforce numbers. Open HR audit findings moved from 35 to 6, average days to fill a vacancy from 226 to 127, turnover from 12.2 to 9.4 percent, and the vacancy rate from 16.0 to 12.3 percent — across years in which we were no longer engaged. These figures come from the City's own published record — City Auditor reports, budget documents and materials presented to City Council. The 226-day baseline is from City Auditor report 2021-14, which predates our engagement. Read the full case study →
Office of the Manhattan Borough President
FACILITATED SESSION
2021
A facilitated session delivered for the Office of the Borough President of Manhattan, City of New York, in November 2021.
Federal
Assessment, employee feedback, workforce training, facilitation and facilitator development delivered to agency headquarters, operating divisions, regional offices and field centers across the executive branch. Prime on all of it except where noted.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
PRIME · MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL OFFICE
2021 – 2022
A complete organizational assessment for a federal regional office of roughly ninety employees, quoted alongside two other firms under simplified acquisition procedures and awarded on a firm-fixed-price purchase order. We designed and fielded a custom employee survey that returned 58 responses over a two-week window, with response rates reported to the client twice weekly while it ran. We facilitated four focus groups that a further forty employees registered for, segmented between management and staff. Findings were briefed three separate times — to the regional steering committee, to the management team, and to the entire workforce with a communication plan attached — and close-out delivered a written strategic outline of recommended next steps, structured so the office could select objectives and attach its own strategies, targets and owners.
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Ten weeks later the office wrote to say it had taken one of those recommendations and stood up a standing twelve-member internal council, using the member-recruitment language we had supplied. It then came back to buy the council's own prioritization session and an all-staff workshop that twenty-eight employees signed up for voluntarily, including the region's two most senior officials. This is the federal engagement that covers the full arc from diagnosis to governance to adoption, and it is the closest federal analogue to the municipal work above.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PRIME · ARMSTRONG FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER
2020 – 2021
Three training awards issued through the NASA Shared Services Center — all-inclusive firm-fixed-price, with price reasonableness documented against a prior federal engagement and 508-conformant materials written into the award. Seven sessions delivered: two all-hands courses authorized for the center's 1,400-person workforce, and a five-session facilitator development program that certified a sixteen-person internal cohort, with a participant workbook, a facilitator guide, assigned pre-reading and a completion certificate issued to every member. Three different client-mandated platforms across the engagement — Adobe Connect, WebEx and Microsoft Teams — each with a rehearsal, and NASA-supplied sign-language interpretation and closed-caption support coordinated at the dry run.
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It is also our best evidence of what happens when policy changes mid-delivery. A 2020 change in federal training guidance paused the program after the first facilitator session. NASA cancelled nothing: the funds stayed obligated for nine months, the agency asked us to revise a course description against the new guidance and had the revision back within the hour, and the remaining scope was rebuilt and delivered a year later — with the agency adding a fifth session and additional funding along the way. All three awards were delivered in full and collected in full.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
PRIME · LOS ANGELES FIELD OFFICE
2020 – 2021
A direct prime purchase order from CBP's Border Enforcement Contracting Division, executed within roughly a day of first contact with the contracting officer, covering a management module for a contracted population of 271 Los Angeles Field Office managers. We were the only external vendor on the bill of the agency's own mandatory leadership workshop, sharing the agenda with CBP's Leadership Development Center, its headquarters Privacy and Diversity Office and its Office of Professional Responsibility, opened by the Director of Field Operations. Seven sessions ran between January and April 2021 on CBP-hosted Microsoft Teams, two of them make-up sessions delivered inside the same fixed price so that managers who missed their slot were not left out. Invoiced through Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform and approved for payment six days after submission.
Federal Aviation Administration
PRIME · FIVE BUYING OFFICES
2020 – 2024
Five independent buying offices over four years — headquarters policy, NextGen, the UAS Integration Office, the Office of Airports Southern Region, and the Eastern Service Center, which convened its Central and Western counterparts into shared sessions. More than a dozen sessions in all. Four of the five offices bought more than once; the headquarters office bought in four different calendar years, and NextGen bought three sessions in twelve weeks, one of them for the agency's entire intern cohort. Two of the five offices found us on internal word of mouth alone, with no proposal and no marketing. Not one delivery was cancelled by us.
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Three things here are worth a contracting officer's attention. We issued completion certificates built from participant rosters the client corrected and returned, so the records are agency-validated. When a Deaf analyst requested CART captioning through FAA's own reasonable-accommodation point of contact, we coordinated the captioner into the session, ran a pre-session technical check and opened the room early to assign captions — not for the first time in that agency. And when FAA challenged a course objective against then-current federal training guidance, we returned a compliant revision the same afternoon, and the office put in writing that our package was compliant. Content for one course was cleared through FAA's Office of Civil Rights before it was allowed to run.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
PRIME · REGIONS 1, 9, AND 10
2021 – 2022
Four engagements across three regional offices — Boston, San Francisco and Seattle — bought under four different mechanisms: a vendor form with no solicitation, a sole-source award paid by government purchase card, two SF-182 training authorizations against regional purchase orders, and a formal competitive request for quotation.
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Each region came to us on an unprompted referral from another EPA office, and two of the three said so in their opening email. Region 1 made both sessions mandatory — the first ordered for all supervisors and senior leaders, the second for the entire regional workforce by direction of the Deputy Regional Administrator — and the region's training officer recorded that 88 percent of the workforce was connected at peak. Region 9 bought twice. The second time, told that a solicitation was unavoidable, it ran a competitive RFQ requiring a pre-award consultation with the branch manager, a minimum session length, 508-compliant course material available on request to employees with vision impairment, and a stated cancellation policy. We met each requirement and were awarded at the price we quoted.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
PRIME · FOUR OPERATING DIVISIONS
2020 – 2024
The Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — four operating divisions with no common buyer, no shared vehicle and no agency-level relationship between them, bought under four entirely different mechanisms: an SF-182 processed through the Program Support Center and paid by Treasury electronic funds transfer, a letter of intent, a certified and obligated action paid by ACH, and purchase orders. One field office referred us to a sister office unprompted a month after delivery. One paid in full thirteen days before the first session against an approved SF-182.
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The most recent work is the most representative. Two leadership sessions for CDC's Office of Safety, Security and Asset Management in July and August 2024 — Future of Work: Key People Skills for Leadership Success, and Unbiased Leadership: Navigating Managerial Bias in Performance Management — delivered with closed captioning at the office's requirement, with rosters collected and completion certificates issued for both.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
PRIME · YUMA AREA OFFICE, THEN THE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE
2020 – 2021
The Yuma Area Office built two of our sessions into its own Professional Leadership Development program for its Area Manager and fourteen supervisors. Twenty-one months later the same client, by then at Reclamation's Commissioner's Office in Washington, brought us back for the agency-wide administrative professionals program, where the session drew more than a hundred attendees. Both purchases were made by the program office and paid in full before delivery, at a per-session rate more than a third higher the second time.
National Labor Relations Board
SUBCONTRACTOR TO A GSA SCHEDULE HOLDER
2021
The NLRB's Office of Employee Development contracted a four-course training program through a prime holding a GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The prime task-ordered us for two of the four courses, and we delivered the first to a headquarters audience of roughly sixty-five in June 2021, holding our own intellectual property position through the prime's standard agreement. We hold no NLRB contract number and no performance rating for this work; the contracting relationship was with the prime, and we say so rather than let it read as an agency contract. We include it because it is the cleanest evidence on this page of how we operate underneath a schedule holder.
Federal Executive Boards
PRIME · ATLANTA AND GREATER LOS ANGELES
2020 – 2021
Open-enrollment leadership sessions for the interagency boards that convened federal leaders across their regions — one a nationwide virtual session that filled its thousand-seat capacity and ran a waitlist, another restricted to agency leaders at five seats per agency with a waitlist behind it. The Atlanta board's coordinator attended the Los Angeles session as a participant before buying, then paid in full in advance, against his own stated policy of paying after delivery. Federal Executive Boards were dissolved in March 2025. We list this because it is real past performance, not because a reference can still be reached.
State
Competitively awarded and currently available to order against.
State of Oregon, Department of Administrative Services
STATEWIDE PRICE AGREEMENT
Notice to proceed May 2025 · through May 2027
Awarded through competitive solicitation on OregonBuys. This is a standing vehicle rather than a completed engagement, which is why it sits in its own tier and not among the work above. What it means in practice is that an eligible Oregon purchaser can order against it, within the agreement's scope of work, without running a separate procurement. The agreement number is supplied on request. See How To Put Us Under Contract for who may order.
Past performance above is presented by scope and period. Contract and order numbers, values, periods of performance, contracting officer references and prime contractor details are supplied on request and with any solicitation response or sources sought reply. Past performance evaluations are addressed within solicitation responses rather than released on request. Most of the federal work above was bought below the reporting threshold, under purchase orders, SF-182 training authorizations and government purchase card, so it will not all appear in federal award data.
[TMS] produced an outstanding, national-caliber report for the City of Richmond.
Managing Partner, Southeastern Institute of Research
Prime contractor on the City of Richmond HR organizational assessment · July 2022
PROCUREMENT PATHS
How To Put Us Under Contract.
A small firm is only useful to you if it is easy to buy. These are the routes available today, so you can take this to your contracting shop rather than reconstruct it yourself.
SET-ASIDE · FEDERAL
Women-Owned Small Business set-aside
SBA designates NAICS 541611, 541612, 541618, 541720 and 611430 as industries in which women-owned small businesses are substantially underrepresented. A contracting officer may restrict an acquisition in those codes to WOSB competition. TMS is SBA-certified and appears in SBA's certification records.
PROGRAM
SBA Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program · 13 CFR part 127
APPLIES TO
541611 · 541612 · 541618 · 541720 · 611430
VERIFY
SAM.gov and SBA Small Business Search
SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION · FEDERAL
Open market, at or below the SAT
Acquisitions above the micro-purchase threshold and at or below the simplified acquisition threshold are reserved for small business unless the contracting officer determines that offers are not expected from two or more responsible small businesses. Most of our federal work to date has been bought this way — a single training, a facilitated session, an employee feedback study — without a schedule or a vehicle in between.
MICRO-PURCHASE
$15,000
SAT
$350,000
IN PRACTICE
Purchase card below the micro-purchase threshold; quotes from a short vendor list above it
FEDERAL · SF182
Training Authorization
For a single course or a short series, many agencies buy training on an SF-182 rather than through a contract action. We have been bought this way by EPA regional offices and by an HHS operating division through the Program Support Center, and we know the sequence: the agency issues the form, one per class per order, and the invoice follows delivery carrying the trainee reference, order number, course name and training dates your finance office needs.
ISSUED BY
The agency, not the vendor
PAYMENT
After delivery — federal training is not prepaid
WE ARE SET UP FOR
SF-3881 ACH enrollment, SAM.gov banking data, and agency invoice portals including IPP
SOLE-SOURCE · FEDERAL
WOSB sole-source award
In a substantially underrepresented NAICS, a contracting officer may award without competition where there is no reasonable expectation that two or more WOSBs will submit offers, the concern is responsible, and the price is fair and reasonable. The determination is yours to make, not ours to claim.
CEILING
$5.5M including options (services), effective 1 October 2025
PROGRAM
SBA WOSB sole-source authority
NOTE
Requires a contracting officer determination on all four conditions
RECURRING NEED· FEDERAL
Agency Blanket Purchase Agreement
Where an agency expects repeat training, facilitation or coaching across offices, a BPA established directly with TMS under simplified acquisition procedures removes the setup for each order. Competition and set-aside obligations still apply per call. No schedule contract is required to establish one.
ESTABLISHED UNDER
Simplified acquisition procedures
PER-ORDER LIMIT
The simplified acquisition threshold, higher for commercial services
BEST FOR
Multi-office training programs — the pattern five FAA offices and four HHS divisions each rebuilt from scratch
STATE & LOCAL · AWARDED
State of Oregon statewide price agreement
Competitively awarded by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Eligible Oregon purchasers may order directly against it, within the agreement's scope of work, without running a separate solicitation. Purchasers outside Oregon cannot buy from this agreement; for those, the federal and open-market paths above, or a direct municipal solicitation, are the routes.
AGREEMENT NO.
Supplied on request
AWARDED BODY
Oregon Department of Administrative Services
PERIOD
Notice to proceed May 2025 through May 2027
THROUGH A PRIME · ANY TIER
Subcontract under an existing prime
If the requirement already sits under a prime's contract, the fastest route is often a subcontract rather than a new award. We have done it three ways: two tiers below the prime on a city contract, as a direct subcontractor to a prime on a second city engagement, and as a subcontractor to a GSA schedule holder on a federal training task order. On our own largest prime contract we subcontracted an analytics partner beneath us, so we have run the arrangement from both sides. Details for primes are in the next section.
COUNTS TOWARD
PLAN THRESHOLD
AVAILABLE
Small business and women-owned small business goals in your subcontracting plan
Required above $900,000, effective 1 October 2025
Federal, state and municipal primes
Thresholds above are current as of 31 August 2026 and are reviewed twice yearly. We have deliberately not printed FAR section numbers: the Federal Acquisition Regulation is mid-overhaul, agencies are operating on class deviations, and the codified numbering has not caught up with them. Your contracting shop holds the current authority. This page holds the routes.
FOR PRIME CONTRACTORS
For Primes Carrying A Subcontracting Plan.
You have goals to hit and a report to file. We have tried to put everything you need for both on one page, in the words your plan actually uses.
What a subcontract to TMS counts toward.
A subcontract to TMS credits against these categories in your subcontracting plan:
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Small business concern — small under the SBA size standard for each NAICS listed on this page
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Women-owned small business concern — SBA-certified WOSB and EDWOSB, February 2025
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Subcontracting reports now file through SAM.gov; the standalone eSRS platform was retired in February 2026.
Structures we will work under.
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Subcontractor on a prime's task or delivery order
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Contractor team arrangement
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Named key personnel in your proposal, with a letter of commitment
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Joint venture, where the scope warrants it​
What we are realistic about.
TMS is a boutique. Dr. Session leads and authors the work, supported by specialist partners for third-party survey administration and analysis. We are the right subcontractor for a defined human capital, assessment, classification or training scope. We are not a body shop and will tell you so before you build us into a bid.
Teaming contact.
Dr. Tana M. Session, JD
President & Principal Consultant
tana@tanamsession.com
Size and status representation.
A prime may accept a written representation of size and socioeconomic status from a subcontractor, and may not require a SAM registration for that purpose. We will provide a signed size and status representation letter on request, ahead of a teaming agreement rather than after it, so your procurement file is complete from the start.
What we have already done underneath a prime.
Two tiers below the prime on a city organizational assessment, delivering into the prime's own document templates. A direct subcontract to a prime on a second city engagement, on the prime's letterhead, under a City purchase order. And a task order from a GSA schedule holder for two courses of a four-course federal training program, where we held our intellectual property position through the prime's standard agreement without holding up the delivery.
Turnaround.
Capability statement, size and status representation, résumés and past performance write-ups within two business days of request. Priced technical input to a proposal, typically within five.
Flowdown clauses.
We accept and execute the standard flowdowns, including the contractor non-discrimination certification clause added to federal solicitations in April 2026, which reaches subcontracts at every tier above the micro-purchase threshold. Send the clause list with the teaming agreement and we will confirm in writing rather than at award.
CERTIFICATIONS & REGISTRATIONS
Certifications, And What Each One Actually Does.
Badges without a certifying body and a date are decoration. Here is every certification TMS holds, who issued it, and what it is good for — including the ones that carry no federal set-aside weight, which we would rather say than have you find out.
SMALL BUSINESS AND MINORITY BUSINESS CERTIFICATIONS
CERTIFICATION
CERTIFYING BODY
STATUS
WHAT IT IS GOOD FOR
WOSB
Women-Owned Small Business
U.S. Small Business Administration
Certified
February 2025
Federal WOSB set-asides and sole-source awards in designated NAICS. TMS separately meets the FAR 2.101 definition of a women-owned small business concern, which is what a prime credits against its WOSB subcontracting goal under FAR 52.219-9.
EDWOSB
Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business
U.S. Small Business Administration
Certified
February 2025
Eligibility for EDWOSB set-asides in NAICS SBA designates as underrepresented. TMS's core codes are designated substantially underrepresented, so the operative federal authority for us is the WOSB set-aside above.
WBE
Women Business Enterprise
The Supplier Clearinghouse, pursuant to CPUC General Order 156
Active
California utility supplier diversity programs and corporate supplier diversity reporting. Carries no federal set-aside eligibility.
MBE
Minority Business Enterprise
The Supplier Clearinghouse, pursuant to CPUC General Order 156
Active
State, municipal and corporate supplier diversity programs. Carries no federal set-aside eligibility.
Small Business
Self-certified in SAM.gov against SBA size standards
Current
Small business set-asides and the small business reserve at or below the simplified acquisition threshold.
SMALL BUSINESS AND MINORITY BUSINESS CERTIFICATIONS
NAICS
DESCRIPTION
STATUS
541612 PRIMARY
Human Resources Consulting Services
HR function assessment, classification and compensation studies, policy and handbook development, performance management design.
541611
Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
Organizational assessment and redesign, strategic planning, OKR and KPI frameworks, change management.
541618
Other Management Consulting Services
Workforce planning, succession planning, committee governance design.
541720
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Employee engagement and climate survey design, administration and year-over-year analysis.
611430
Professional and Management Development Training
Supervisory and executive training, facilitation, executive coaching, curriculum development.
921190
Other General Government Support
Agency-wide human capital support and facilitation not captured by the codes above.
WOSB set-aside and sole-source authority applies to 541611, 541612, 541618, 541720 and 611430, which SBA designates as industries in which women-owned small businesses are substantially underrepresented. 921190 is not an SBA-designated WOSB industry; work under that code is available through full and open competition, small business set-asides, or subcontract.
Professional Credentials
Dr. Tana M. Session, JD holds the PHR, GPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications and has completed an ICF-approved executive performance coaching program. Thirty years in human resources, including ten as the top HR executive for domestic and international organizations.
Contractor Representations
We track the certifications and representations that now attach to federal contracts and subcontracts above the micro-purchase threshold, including the non-discrimination certification clause added to solicitations in April 2026 and its flowdown at every tier. Every program we design is open to every employee in the client organization. We will execute the representations, and if your counsel wants that in writing before award rather than at it, ask.
Verify Us
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SAM.gov — entity registration, UEI M871GKP65R57
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SBA Small Business Search — WOSB and EDWOSB certification record
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The Supplier Clearinghouse — WBE and MBE status
DELIVERABLES
What Arrives, And In What Condition.
Government deliverables have obligations attached that commercial ones do not. We would rather set the expectation here than negotiate it at delivery.
Accessible by default.
Participant guides, slide decks, job aids, reports and recorded sessions are prepared for Section 508 conformance — reading order, alternative text, color contrast and captioning — measured against WCAG 2.0 Level AA for Section 508, and WCAG 2.1 Level AA where a state or local entity's ADA Title II obligations apply. An Accessibility Conformance Report is available on request.
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This is not a new promise. 508-conformant materials were a condition of a NASA award we delivered against and a requirement in an EPA request for quotation we won. We have coordinated CART captioning through an agency's own reasonable-accommodation point of contact, delivered alongside an agency-supplied sign-language interpreter, and provided closed captioning where a CDC office required it.
Confidentiality of respondents.
Surveys are administered anonymously through a third party. We do not release verbatims, individual scores, or anything that would identify an employee who answered a confidential question — to the agency, to a prime, or to anyone else. Where a demographic group is small enough that a chart would identify its members, we report it in narrative rather than graphically. That is the basis on which people tell us the truth.
Written for the public record.
Findings are written on the assumption that an auditor, a council, a union and a reporter will read them. That constraint shapes the drafting from the first page rather than being applied to it afterwards. It is also why the Richmond work survived a change of mayor, a change of chief administrative officer and a departmental restructuring without being reopened.
Records your file can use.
Attendance rosters returned to the client for correction and issued back as validated records, completion certificates per participant, session takeaway documents and curated resources, and an invoice carrying the course name, training dates and order reference your finance office needs. Where your security posture requires your platform, we deliver on it — and rehearse on it first.
INFO
Company Data
Everything a market research entry, a vendor portal or a supplier diversity form asks for, in text you can copy.
LEGAL NAME
TMS Business Consulting, Inc.
d/b/a TanaMSession.com
ENTITY TYPE
Corporation
Founded 2014
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
WOSB · EDWOSB
SBA certified, February 2025
POINT OF CONTACT
Dr. Tana M. Session, JD
President & Principal Consultant
SAM UEI
M871GKP65R57
Verify at SAM.gov
HEADQUARTERS
Los Angeles, California
Delivering nationally, virtual and on site
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
WBE · MBE
The Supplier Clearinghouse, CPUC G.O. 156
CAGE CODE
07E13
Verify at SAM.gov
BUSINESS SIZE
Small
Under the SBA size standard for each NAICS listed.
NAICS CODES
541612
Also 541611, 541618, 541720, 611430, 921190
Solicitation responses, sources sought replies, RFI submissions and teaming inquiries all route to Dr. Session directly. There is no business development layer to get through.