When CohnReznick and Unanet team up to publish GAUGE, people across the GovCon industry pay attention. Why? Because it’s not conjecture. It’s trusted, hard-earned insight from over 1,200 of your peers.
In an environment where every hour and resource matters, the 2025 GAUGE Report is your strategic advantage. And it’s free – because we believe better data makes for a stronger industry.
The Pulse of GovCon
Market Dynamics: Gain an understanding of the current trends and future outlooks in the GovCon sector – including DOGE and Exec Orders
Compliance Concerns: Learn about the latest compliance issues including CMMC and how to address them effectively.
Organizational Challenges: Identify the key challenges firms face and explore strategies to overcome them.
Benchmarks to Guide Growth
Discover how firms of all sizes and types are growing and facing these challenging times across a variety of KPIs
G – Government compliance: Business systems, efficiency, and audits
A – Accounting: Margins, indirect costs, and DSO
U – Utilization: Resource management maturity, project management, and roles
G – Growth: Win rates, proposals, resources, and challenges
E – Efficiency: Wrap rates, fringe, and the impact of resource management
Impact of PMO and Resource Management Maturity
Firms with PMO also average 10 more proposals per year than those without
Having a PMO also correlates with 13% higher chance of predicted growth next year
Firms with PMOs are 4.5x more likely to have “very mature” PM practices
3.5x more likely to have “very mature” RM practices
Gauge 2025 Key Findings
Optimism in GovCon
65%
of firms are optimistic about the current GovCon environment.
Financial Challenges
57%
of firms list new revenue resources as their top financial challenge.
Winning Contracts
79%
of firms reported experiencing issues winning new contracts.
BD Resources
48%
of firms still cite resource management as their top project challenge—despite more tools than ever
Meet the Authors
The visionary forces behind The GAUGE
Kim Koster
VP of Product Marketing
Christine Williamson
Partner, Government Contracting Industry
Assess Your Resource Management Maturity with our Maturity Model
This year’s report zeroes in on utilization, among many other relevant topics: the metric separating high-performing GovCons from those at risk. Assess your own Resource Management Maturity here.
