Examples of Services
Under contracts with government and nonprofit clients, Clarus Group has . . .
Reviewed and reported on a regional school district's financial management and budgeting practices and capacity to sustain improvement
- Conducted a detailed evaluation of the use of construction management at risk in Massachusetts
- Reviewed and provided advice regarding a request for proposals and related documents for a construction management at risk project undertaken by a municipality
- Provided monitoring, quality assurance, and performance audit services in connection with state educational accountability reviews of local school districts
- Developed charter school inspection protocols and report templates for charter school authorizers in two states
- Prepared detailed evaluations of charter school performance, administration, financial condition, board governance, and accountability systems
- Conducted leadership evaluations of underperforming school districts
- Conducted a management review of a public school district relating to allegations of improper fiscal administration and potential fraud
- Performed an organizational assessment for a charter school
- Performed a governance and finance assessment for a charter school
- Advised a public agency on the development and implementation of procurement policies and practices
- Advised a public authority on procurement, planning, design, and construction
- Developed the curriculum for a national program to certify inspector general investigators
- Developed a public management curriculum for certification of public managers
- Delivered testimony on construction management at risk to a legislative oversight committee
- Developed and delivered training programs to public officials and private sector designers and owner's project managers on a wide variety of topics, including . . .
- Best value contracting
- Public construction contracting
- Construction management at risk
- Contract administration
- Massachusetts procurement laws
- Internal controls
- Leading and supervising audits, evaluations, inspections, and reviews
- Government auditing standards
- Fraud awareness and corruption control
- Developed and delivered, in the United States and overseas, training on anticorruption practices for international groups of public administrators, educators, journalists, and representatives of Transparency International from the Baltic states
