Executive Mosaic is honored to announce the addition of Guidehouse CEO Scott McIntyre to the 2025 class of the Wash100 Award, an accolade given annually to the 100 most influential and impactful leaders in the government contracting industry.
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McIntyre has secured the most prestigious award in the GovCon industry for nine consecutive years, reflecting his leadership in driving strategic growth through notable contract wins, innovation and expansion initiatives, and a strong commitment to supporting customers while maintaining high-quality standards.
“Scott has now won the Wash100 Award an astounding nine times, a recognition that cements him as one of the most celebrated leaders in GovCon. As CEO of Guidehouse, Scott has led the firm’s rapid growth, with a recent focus on its health segment, and secured major federal partnerships, including collaborations over the last several months with Google and Hexagon,” said CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award Jim Garrettson.
“Guidehouse is also delivering on a massive US$12 billion Air Force contract, reinforcing its strength in national security. A founding exec who helped carve Guidehouse from PwC’s public sector arm in 2018, Scott has been at the helm since day one—steering the company to new heights year after year,” Garrettson added.
Understanding Clients’ Needs
McIntyre is a huge believer in culture. He thinks Guidehouse’s commitment to “old school” values makes it distinct from other consulting organizations.
This means “being super close to your clients and understanding their needs; having a deep, deep, deep understanding of their industry, industry economics, the architecture of their businesses; and being able to position yourself for things you can actually deliver with impact and not stretch yourself into a value proposition that’s not realistic,” McIntyre said during a fireside chat at a conference held in November.
Significant 2024 Contract Wins
The Guidehouse chief executive’s commitment to a people-first culture and deep leadership experience addressing complex challenges facing customers in both the public sector and regulated commercial markets are demonstrated in major contract awards the management consulting firm has secured.
In April 2024, Guidehouse booked a potential 18-year, US$12 billion single-award contract from the US Air Force to provide systems engineering and integration support for the service’s Minuteman III ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile.
“These deterrent assets are at the vanguard of our nation’s defense, as well as that of NATO and other allies around the world,” McIntyre said of the ICBM Integration Support Contract 2.0. “We are proud of the Air Force’s selection of Guidehouse to be its partner in such a vital mission.”
Other notable contracts in 2024 include a prime position on the Department of Defense’s US$1.8 billion Personnel and Readiness Infrastructure Support Management, or PRISM, contract in support of the DOD Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; a General Services Administration contract to advise on the government’s strategy to acquire carbon pollution-free electricity; and a prime spot on the US$2.2 billion Global Health Comprehensive Technical Assistance for Health Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Management, or Comprehensive TA, contract with the US Agency for International Development.
In October, Guidehouse won a prime role on a Department of Health and Human Services contract to help the Health Resources and Services Administration, or HRSA, modernize the US organ transplant system.
“Guidehouse is honored to partner with HRSA to provide strategic support for this historic and transformative initiative, because we know it’s critical to the continued improvement of organ donation and transplantation services across the US,” McIntyre said of the HRSA contract. “This is so important to so many people and our team is committed to helping increase the efficiency, accountability, and effectiveness of this vital healthcare service. This effort will directly support the mission of saving lives through improved access to organ transplants.”
Partnerships to Drive Federal Government Transformation
In August 2024, Guidehouse entered into partnerships with two companies to drive digital modernization in the federal government to improve efficiency and enhance security in government operations.
The partnership with Google Public Sector seeks to advance systems modernization and cloud-based transformation to help federal agencies address mission-critical challenges.
Guidehouse also partnered with Hexagon to help agencies manage the lifecycle of their assets by delivering enterprise asset management capabilities and implementing advisory and digital offerings to facilitate data-driven decisions.
McIntyre on Healthcare Business
In a video interview with Executive Mosaic, McIntyre shared how the company has built its healthcare segment into a business with over USLYONS-BURT,$1 billion in annual revenue.
During the interview, he told Executive Mosaic Senior Content Specialist Charles Lyons-Burt that healthcare has always been a core focus area for Guidehouse.
The company is “looking to do things that are really important to health systems and that is a lot of transformation, it’s a lot of revenue capture. … In addition to a lot of technology work, it’s also around bending the cost curve. The healthcare costs are continuing to go up … and you know, we all are interested in seeing innovation, both technological innovation as well as non-tech innovation that can bend that cost curve … and looking to automate certain things that make hospitals more efficient is something that’s very important to us and will remain so for the foreseeable future,” McIntyre stated.
Expansion Efforts
With McIntyre at the helm, Guidehouse continues to expand to advance its growth strategy, broaden its footprint and deliver innovative platforms to customers in both public and private sectors.
In November, the global consultancy opened a regional operations hub in San Antonio to deliver advisory, digital, corporate and managed services to clients in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
“Our expansion into San Antonio – an industry hub for cybersecurity, financial services, health and life sciences, intelligence, defense and security – reflects our commitment to supporting clients in this dynamic market,” the CEO said at the time.
“With the region’s commitment to support both government and commercial businesses confronting many of the world’s most complex challenges, we look forward to working in close proximity to our many clients and colleagues, becoming part of the greater San Antonio community, and providing local opportunities for our expanding network of Texas-based employees and trading partners,” McIntyre added.
Company Recognition
Under McIntyre’s leadership, Guidehouse has received numerous accolades for its high-quality standards, excellence, growth, innovation, integrity, diversity and leadership.
In the past year, the consulting services provider won three 2024 Best in KLAS awards for strategy, growth and consolidation; revenue cycle optimization and outsourced coding. The firm also received the 2024 Don Strong Community Partner Award, the Coalition for Integrity’s 2024 Corporate Leadership Award and WBJ’s LGBTQ+ Award. It was named by Fair360 as a Top Noteworthy Company and recognized as a Campus Forward Award winner by RippleMatch for its excellence in early career hiring.
In July 2024, Guidehouse announced that it obtained the ISO 20000 recertification for IT service management.
Commenting on the recertification, McIntyre said, “This significant milestone underscores Guidehouse’s commitment to maintaining the highest standards of quality and IT service management, and continuously improving our processes to better serve our clients.”
In August 2024, Forbes recognized Guidehouse as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms, acknowledging the firm’s efforts in delivering best-in-class advisory, digital and managed services to public sector and commercial organizations worldwide.
“This prestigious recognition is reflective of Guidehouse’s agility, capabilities, and scale in our work with clients to solve some of the world’s most formidable challenges,” McIntyre said. “As a rapidly growing consultancy with a unique technology-enabled delivery model that is backed by the highest standards and a focus on client excellence, we take great pride in being named among the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.”
The following month, Guidehouse was named to the Inc. 5000 annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, recognizing the firm’s fivefold growth to more than US$3 billion and expansion into additional markets while managing a workforce of more than 17,000 professionals across 55 sites worldwide.
The nine-time Wash100 Award recipient welcomed the firm’s addition to the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies.
“Guidehouse’s rapid growth has been fueled by our ability to redefine the ‘sea of sameness’ in consulting and embrace the power of collaboration across the firm to design, deliver, and manage bespoke solutions that help clients outmaneuver today’s most difficult challenges,” said McIntyre.
Executive Mosaic congratulates Scott McIntyre and the entire Guidehouse team for their Wash100 win.Show your support for Scott by casting your vote at Wash100.com.
