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Gatewell Group

Fixed fees. Staged milestones. No hourly meters.

We serve both sides of the covered-hardware market: the US importers, distributors, and project developers who must buy compliant equipment, and the allied-country manufacturers who must prove it. Every engagement is a fixed scope with staged payments: an engagement deposit, a filing milestone, a completeness milestone, and a grant milestone. Published prices are fixed and are not negotiated; the diagnostic computes the exact number within each band.

Buyer-Side AssuranceFee BasisScope
Vendor-bench diligence $15,000 – $50,000 · portfolio For importers, distributors, and project developers: covered-status and origin certainty across a supplier bench, before Customs or your customers ask. Priced per vendor: $5,000 documentary review, $7,500 with independent supplier confirmations. Where the facility itself has to be seen, see Site verification below.
Site verification $25,000 North America / $35,000 overseas · per facility
+$12,000 for each additional facility on the same trip. All-in fixed fees; travel sits inside the fee.
The apex evidence tier. The principal who signs the dossier walks the line, records the process steps, and reconciles what the floor shows against what the documents claim. Attaches to a portfolio, origin-engineering, or attestation engagement. Documents remain the spine of the file; presence is added where the file warrants it.
Detention-Ready Package $14,500 · fixed, 10 business days A full UFLPA Entity List screen of the supplier bench, an origin-evidence gap analysis by SKU, and pre-built rebuttal dossiers for the five suppliers carrying the most volume. Carries a standing 72-hour activation clause for twelve months, so the file is already built if a shipment is held. Half the fee credits against a full portfolio engagement.
Integrator reasonable-inquiry file From $10,000 For security and low-voltage systems integrators: the file behind the representation at FAR 52.204-26, vendor screening against the covered entities the clause names, and the per-item disclosure a “does” answer requires under 52.204-24(e). No dollar threshold appears in FAR 4.2105 or 52.204-25(e), and the substance of the clause flows down into subcontracts for commercial products and commercial services.
Portfolio-wide bench diligence $15,000 – $50,000 · per holding For private equity operating teams: one screening standard applied across the holdings, run as pre-close diligence on a target’s supplier bench or inside a 100-day plan. One relationship, one method, and a comparable evidence file for every company in the book.
Annual attestation & monitoring $15,000 – $46,000+ / yr A standing evidence file with annual re-verification, keyed to the obligations the documents actually impose: quarterly onshoring status reports to the issuing agency, termination dates on granted approvals, updated-vetting conditions, and evidence currency. Tiered by SKU count. Serves as Protocol Level 3 monitoring for certified files.
Re-sourcing of stranded supply Retainer + success Qualified allied-country replacements for suppliers who can no longer ship, vetted for approvability.
The Protocol · Origin EvidenceFee BasisScope
Origin Evidence File assembly $15,000 – $35,000 · per line The complete documentary file per Protocol v1.0: production provenance, deep-trace component origin, corporate chain, software provenance, officer attestation. Level 1 on completion. Where the bill of materials itself must change, see Domestic content engineering below.
Level 2 verification $15,000 – $40,000 Independent examination per Annex F (document authentication, FCC-record reconciliation, direct supplier confirmation), with a registered certificate and conformity mark.
Level 3 monitoring Via attestation program Standing change-control and annual re-verification, delivered through the Annual attestation & monitoring engagement above. Status lapses without it; buyers can check either state in the public registry.
FEOC & §45X material-assistance substantiation $25,000 – $60,000 · per credit line
$15,000 – $30,000 annual refresh. $75,000 – $120,000 multi-line program.
The workpaper behind a material-assistance cost ratio, built per facility or storage technology: supplier certification packs taken under penalties of perjury with EIN and the six-year retention the statute requires, support for the safe-harbor identification statement, and the diligence package a §6418 credit buyer and lender counsel will accept. This is substantiation and documentation of the record. We do not issue entity-status opinions.
Market AccessFee BasisScope
Covered-List Exposure Diagnostic $7,500 – $15,000 · fixed Two weeks. Covered status by product, grandfathering position, viable pathway, and a documented risk-factor assessment against published grant patterns. Half credited against a full engagement. The diagnostic also sets the fixed fee for any engagement that follows.
Conditional Approval · single model $95,000 – $125,000 · staged 40/30/15/15 Ownership and corporate-structure record, supply-chain disclosure, US manufacturing plan, agency correspondence through grant. We accept a limited number of filing engagements each year.
Conditional Approval · product family $150,000 – $300,000 · + per-model additions One evidentiary core carrying multiple models, with staged additions as the line evolves, matching current grant practice.
Condition maintenance after grant $20,000 – $30,000 / yr Offered at grant notification. Quarterly point-of-contact status-report support, the material-change disclosure file, updated-vetting readiness, and milestone evidence against the onshoring plan. The conditions do not end at grant: the onshoring plan is time-bound, the point-of-contact reporting is quarterly, and material changes must be disclosed promptly.
Equipment authorization management $12,000 – $25,000 · labs at actuals
All outside services billed direct to you. No markup.
Post-approval certification through accredited laboratories and TCBs.
Onshoring & ContentFee BasisScope
US onshoring plan $65,000 – $125,000+ Site and EMS-partner selection, incentive mapping, capex phasing. This is the documentary package behind a credible manufacturing plan, and the condition on which granted approvals remain effective. Priced by footprint: existing US operations, greenfield site selection, or phased multi-line programs.
Domestic content engineering $20,000 – $85,000 · per line Bill-of-materials pathway to the domestic-manufacture exit the determinations write into their own definitions (the 48 CFR 25.101(a) floor, 65 percent today, 75 from 2029), with substantial-transformation analysis. CBP binding-ruling addition available.
Standing ComplianceFee BasisScope
Continuous Compliance $3,000 – $6,000 / mo The standing subscription, and the way most files are held current. Includes the annual attestation at the covered tier of up to ten SKUs, a quarterly evidence refresh, Covered List and UFLPA Entity List change alerts scoped to your own supplier bench, and one incident-response activation each year. Protocol Level 3 monitoring is delivered here.
US Responsible Party · Agent for Service $4,000 – $6,000 / yr The US designation foreign filers are required to maintain, provided within the attestation program as part of a maintained evidence file, never a mail drop.

Commercial terms: USD by SWIFT wire, OUR coding. Engagement deposits follow conventional T/T structure. Gross-up provisions where treaty relief is unavailable; US residency certification furnished annually. Qualifying Korean SMEs may route the diagnostic through our voucher-registered partner firm for export-voucher reimbursement.

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