CRA International, Inc.

CRA International, Inc., headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, is a for-profit global consulting firm that operates as a prime contractor delivering expert witness services, litigation support, and economic analysis to civilian federal agencies on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. The firm does not compete under SBA designations; all 346 awards in the source are prime contracts with zero subcontractor engagement across the portfolio. CRA International operates exclusively in the expert witness and regulatory consulting domain, providing testimony, forensic accounting, economic and financial analysis, and advisory services to support federal litigation, enforcement, and regulatory functions.

CRA International's customer base concentrates heavily on civilian agencies with enforcement and regulatory missions. The top five customers by award count — the Securities and Exchange Commission (74 awards, $21.9 million potential value), the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (72 awards, $27.5 million potential value), the Federal Trade Commission (39 awards, $62.1 million potential value), the Department of Justice Civil Division (32 awards, $11.2 million potential value), and the Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration (13 awards) — account for 66% of awards. Concentration by dollar value diverges: the FTC dominates potential value ($62.1 million across 39 awards), followed by IRS ($27.5 million across 72 awards) and the SEC ($21.9 million across 74 awards). This reflects the FTC's use of larger, multi-year definitive contracts with CRA International, whereas the IRS and SEC issue more numerous but smaller individual engagement awards. Recent representative work includes a $15.4 million FTC expert support services contract awarded January 2023 (time and materials, through March 2028), a $2.9 million IRS Phase II expert witness contract awarded August 2025 (labor-hours pricing, Dallas, TX), and a $1.89 million SEC expert witness services contract awarded June 2023 (time and materials, through May 2028). CRA International also holds two single-award IDCs with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — one valued at $800,000 (awarded April 2024, through March 2027) and one valued at $2 million — to provide expert witness and technical testimony supporting energy regulation and infrastructure authorization work.

Activity declined modestly over the past five years, from 15 awards in 2022 to 8 awards in 2026. Sixteen awards (combined potential value $25.9 million) reach completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure in that window. Across the portfolio, 87% of combined potential value ($159.6 million of $183.6 million) has been obligated, indicating mature contract execution rather than near-term pipeline.

On Service Contract Inventory reporting, CRA International invoiced $33.5 million in federal services revenue across FY2022–FY2025, with peak invoicing of $12 million in FY2023 (8.2 FTEs) and declining activity to $4.5 million in FY2025 (3.6 FTEs) — the decline reflects the tail end of FY2025 in the source data and does not indicate a sustained retrenchment. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ran a median of $588.58/hour, with rates spanning $411.14/hour (10th percentile) through $860.63/hour (90th percentile), consistent with senior litigation-support and economic-expert pricing. CRA International self-performs all deliverables; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average subcontractor-hours share is zero percent, confirming the firm's build-own-team model with no reliance on sub capacity.

The firm's capability concentration is precise: the top NAICS categories are Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (138 awards) and All Other Legal Services (95 awards), while the top PSC is Support–Professional: Expert Witness (266 of 346 awards). This narrow specialization positions CRA International as the incumbent expert witness and regulatory-economics provider to enforcement-focused civilian agencies, with minimal exposure to defense, infrastructure, or commercial markets outside the litigation and regulatory domains.