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Gatewell Group
Buyer-Side Assurance Origin Evidence Market Access Onshoring & Content

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 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 direct supplier confirmations, $10,000 with deep-trace evidence.
Annual attestation & monitoring $15,000 – $40,000 / 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.
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 40/30/30 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.
Equipment authorization management $10,000 – $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 $60,000 – $100,000+ Site and EMS-partner selection, incentive mapping, capex phasing — 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 – $60,000 · 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
US Responsible Party · Agent for Service $3,000 – $6,000 / yr The US designation foreign filers are required to maintain, provided within the attestation program as part of a maintained evidence file — not a mail drop.

Commercial terms: USD by SWIFT wire, OUR coding. Engagement deposits follow conventional T/T structure. Published fees are fixed and not subject to negotiation. 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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