Stout Risius Ross, LLC

Stout Risius Ross, LLC (doing business as Stout), a for-profit limited liability partnership headquartered in Royal Oak, Michigan, delivers expert witness testimony, litigation consulting, forensic accounting, and financial valuation services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor on full-and-open competition awards with no set-aside designations. Stout operates across thirteen federal agencies through 313 federal contract awards, none of which involve subcontracting, and maintains a subsidiary, Debtx Analytics, Inc., a certified small disadvantaged business.

The Department of Justice dominates Stout's customer base by both volume and value. DOJ's Criminal Division alone accounts for 165 awards (53% of total) worth $39.2 million in combined potential value, followed by U.S. Attorney's Offices with 30 awards valued at $10.3 million and the Civil Division with 76 awards at $1.9 million—together representing 94% of recent awards and 94% of combined potential value. The Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General round out an active customer set concentrated in civilian litigation support, program integrity assessment, and forensic financial analysis. Stout competes purely on full-and-open basis; no awards carry set-aside designations.

Stout's work spans expert witness testimony in complex financial and valuation matters, litigative consulting on federal litigation and criminal prosecution, forensic accounting and program integrity assessments, and business valuation for estate and tax purposes. Representative prime work includes a $789.5 million time-and-materials purchase order from DOJ Criminal Division for expert witness and litigation support services (awarded July 15, 2024, completion July 2026); a $664.8 million time-and-materials purchase order from DOJ Criminal Division for expert witness services (awarded February 10, 2025, completion June 2027); a $549.8 million definitive contract from the Federal Trade Commission for industry expert consultation, analysis, and testimony (awarded August 5, 2024, completion August 2029); and a $499.3 million definitive contract from the Internal Revenue Service for business valuation and expert witness services (awarded August 22, 2025, completion August 2030). Stout also holds a $500,000 single-award IDIQ with HHS OIG (awarded September 18, 2023, completion September 2028) for assessing healthcare beneficiaries' ability to pay for medical services; one delivery order valued at $13,870 has been issued under this vehicle.

Stout's primary NAICS concentrations reflect its service portfolio: All Other Legal Services (151 awards), All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (51 awards), Offices of Physicians—Except Mental Health Specialists (40 awards), and Other Accounting Services (37 awards). The vendor's PSC footprint is dominated by Support—Professional: Expert Witness (199 awards) and Support—Professional: Legal (77 awards).

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years, ranging from 29 to 44 awards annually (2022–2026), with 67 awards (combined potential value $12.1 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing for prime contracts totaled $4.5 million across fiscal years 2022–2025, with FY2022 and FY2023 the most active ($2.3 million and $2.2 million respectively); FY2024 showed zero SCI-reportable invoicing, and FY2025 carried $28 thousand. SCI-derived government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $199.80 per hour to a median of $274.57 per hour and a 90th percentile of $503.14 per hour, reflecting labor-hour and time-and-materials pricing across litigation support and expert valuation services. Stout self-performed all reported labor on SCI-captured prime contracts with zero subcontractor engagement. The vendor's FTE trajectory tracked with invoicing patterns, with 4.2 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 3.8 FTEs in FY2023 and falling to 0.0 FTEs in FY2024–FY2025, consistent with a shift toward labor-hour and time-and-materials task orders rather than firm fixed-price or level-of-effort arrangements visible in the SCI reporting threshold.