Stout Risius Ross, LLC

Stout Risius Ross, LLC, doing business as Stout, provides expert witness testimony, litigation support, forensic accounting, and financial valuation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) through time-and-materials and labor-hour purchase orders. The firm competes exclusively in full-and-open federal procurement with no set-aside designations across all 302 prime awards in the source portfolio.

Stout is a for-profit limited liability partnership headquartered in Royal Oak, Michigan, with a subsidiary, Debtx Analytics, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The parent Stout entity operates primarily under NAICS 541110 (All Other Legal Services) and PSC 7400 (Support — Professional: Expert Witness), delivering specialized financial expertise and expert analysis to support government litigation, investigative, and program-integrity initiatives. The firm has maintained an extensive federal contracting presence since 2005, with a portfolio of over 300 awards concentrated across civilian agencies.

Stout's customer concentration is heavily anchored to the Department of Justice. The DOJ accounts for 261 of 302 awards (94% by count and by potential value) across three components: the Criminal Division (162 awards, $38.6 million combined potential value), US Attorney's Offices (29 awards, $10.2 million), and Civil Division (70 awards, $1.9 million). The IRS (14 awards, $2.4 million), Securities and Exchange Commission (8 awards, $1.8 million), Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and HHS Office of Inspector General round out the active customer set. Stout holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with HHS OIG valued at $500 thousand through September 2028 for assessing healthcare beneficiaries' ability to pay for medical services; the first task order under this vehicle, valued at $13,870, was issued in September 2023. Recent representative work includes a $664,808 time-and-materials purchase order from DOJ Criminal Division for expert witness services (February 2025), a $549,750 definitive contract with the FTC for industry expert consultation and testimony (August 2024), a $445,500 expert-witness definitive contract with the SEC (June 2022), a $399,250 labor-hour contract with the IRS for business valuation of a company for gift-and-estate tax purposes (August 2025), and a $378,347 labor-hour contract with the IRS for expert witness valuation and appraisal of syndicated conservation easements (July 2025).

Activity has remained relatively stable year over year, ranging from 18 to 44 awards annually across the past five years, with 2025 showing 44 awards. Sixty-three awards (combined potential value $11.5 million) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete. The source carries no evidence of Stout operating as a subcontractor or maintaining named subcontractors; all 302 awards list Stout as prime with zero sub-engagement or subcontractor teaming.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue for federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $4.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2024 shows zero invoicing in the SCI dataset, likely reflecting reporting lag or contract timing). The dataset captured 4.2 FTEs in FY2022 and 3.8 FTEs in FY2023; the FY2024 FTE count shows 0.0, consistent with SCI's lag in reporting completions. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $274.57/hr, with junior labor around the 10th percentile at $199.80/hr and senior labor through the 90th percentile at $503.14/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share was 0%, reflecting Stout's reliance on its own staff rather than subcontractors for federal service delivery. All federal contract awards have been made through full and open competition with no small-business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other set-aside designations applied.