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Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A’s)

Mergers and Acquisitions support was ARDAK’s Original Line of Business. ARDAK’s M&A Analysis has been utilized in several billion dollars worth of mergers & acquisitions.

Jacobs / Ch2M Hill

L3 Technologies / Vertex

Lockheed IS&GS / Leidos

Kodak Remote Sensing / ITT

Raytheon / TI

Raytheon / Hughes

Loral / IBM Federal

Lockheed Martin

Matra / Fairchild

Orbital Sciences

Loral / LTV Missiles

Loral Ford Aerospace

Methodology

Mergers and Acquisitions Methodology

Candidate Search & Screening

Client-stipulated Mergers and Acquisitions Criteria regarding size, location, business base, technology base, profitability, backlog, and program involvement are employed to search entire industry sectors, identifying hundreds of potential clients. Utilizing ARDAK’s Contract Exploitation System (ACES), these are then screened by applying increasingly stringent criteria to identify the superior candidates. An exemplar of an acquisition matrix is shown below:

Candidate Analysis

Acquisition candidates identified by clients or through ARDAK’s Contract Exploitation System (ACES), are analyzed in detail. Business bases are combined with those of prospective acquirers, identifying new programs, customers, and products/services, as well as areas of overlap. The latter are analyzed to determine if they represent synergy, contention, or neutral impact. An exemplar of an initial screening in support of Mergers and Acquisitions is shown below:

DCAA / DCMA Support

Given that the United States Government (USG) continues to be risk adverse towards Cost Reimbursement (Cost Plus) contracts the ability for contractors to clearly articulate Fair and Reasonable Price Determination and Justification has become increasingly challenging. A number of ARDAK’s clients have utilized ARDAK’s Contract Exploitation System (ACES) as an integral component of their Contractor System Purchasing Review (CSPR) process and Price Justification