National Strategies (NSI) is a U.S. state and local government consulting firm that helps organizations solve problems and create opportunities.

Government Procurement and Sales

NSI helps organizations identify and pre-qualify the best opportunities, optimize their sales, and accelerate their revenue capture. Our firm provides intelligence to a fragmented and highly political market, access to relevant decision makers and influencers, and strategic and tactical sales and business development support. Each of NSI’s engagements is customized and tailored to our clients’ unique needs. This approach has generated over $36 billion in new revenue for our clients. 

National and State Contract Vehicles

NSI helps companies identify and prioritize national, regional and state contract vehicles to pursue. One of the ways that NSI has generated over $36 billion in new revenue on behalf of our clients is maintaining strong relationships with state and local government, and quasi-government (e.g., Healthcare, Higher Education) buying consortiums. NSI supports all efforts by our clients to pursue prioritized contract vehicles, including developing relationships, strategies, and messaging.

Government Relations and Public Affairs

NSI helps organizations with their policy needs through legislative and regulatory activity in any state or local government market across the United States. Our flexible network of on-the-ground legislative and regulatory consultants help our clients track, analyze and triage any problems and opportunities that arise. This includes passing, amending, or defeating legislation and regulations as well as building allies and coalitions and influencing public opinion.

market research and Funding analysis

NSI has an extensive internal research team which has deep experience in analyzing the current and future U.S. state and local government procurement, legislative/regulatory, and political landscape across various industries. This in-depth intelligence and analysis help organizations update their go-to-market or government relations strategy/plan, prioritize markets of focus, revamp their lobbyist program, and guide their current and future sales, business development, marketing and policy efforts.

Government Incentives and Grants

NSI has successfully secured hundreds of millions of dollars of government incentives and grants on behalf of our clients through our extensive process of identifying, pre-qualifying and prioritizing specific government incentives and grants to pursue. Our team of U.S. state and local government experts are able to identify all relevant government incentives and grants, track the dollars available and determine the most efficient way to secure these dollars.

Organizational Assessments

NSI has a proven methodology and strategic approach to create or improve existing U.S. state and local government sales and government relations organizations. The elements of this approach are designed to position an organization for success and include internal and external resource assessments, geographic market assessments, benchmarking versus other similar organizations, landscape analysis, strategic advisory services, and business performance improvement.

NSI has a nationwide bi-partisan network of over 2,500 state and local consultants, covering all 50 states, cities and counties with a population of over 50,000, mid-to-large-size school districts, public higher education, and various public authorities - such as utilities, transit, and airports. These state and local consultants provide our clients with strong on-the-ground relationships, real-time insight, and a unique understanding of the dynamics and inner workings of their local governments and state agencies.

For us, it's all about results.

We believe success in the state and local government arena depends on substance and expertise more so than rolodexes. NSI has developed its core consulting capabilities across eight practice areas with vertical expertise in Technology, Health and Human Services, Energy and Sustainability, Public Safety and Law Enforcement, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education, Financial Services and Smart Cities.