What is the best consulting firm for public service work? I’ve been at Accenture for a year now since graduating college. To me, the compensation seems very competitive, and there are a fair number of PS clients, but I don’t know how it compares to other firms. Wondering what else is out there in the way of public service/impact consulting.

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1. McKinsey, BCG
2. Booz, Deloitte, Accenture, Guidehouse and everyone else who does staff augment

The government really doesn’t do much pure strategy work. When the leadership of an organization is hired for their political connections, building a “strategy” is wholly dependent on the whims of the party in power, and subject to inevitable changes in direction every 2-4 years.

Guidehouse is up there. They are exclusively PS.

False (we are 50/50).

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If you're looking at federal, BAH and Deloitte are the biggest players there.

There are so many firms in the public sector. When you look at a single agency they may have multiple consulting firms on a single engagement.

But yes avoid staff augmentation.

You need to define “best” before we can help you.
Comp? Bcg/McK
Big? Acc/D/BAH
Then there’s tons of variation as you specialize within a skill set or client base

18F. It’s a tech consultancy IN the federal government. https://18f.gsa.gov/

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