S. government acquisition teams evaluate commercial capabilities against defined requirements with speed and defensibility. The platform structures the full evaluation lifecycle—from downselect through contract performance—preserving evidence behind every decision while keeping contracting officers in control.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Government acquisition teams face a widening gap between the speed of commercial innovation and the systems built to acquire it. As technology cycles collapse from years to weeks, contracting offices using Commercial Solutions Openings and Other Transaction Authorities can solicit at operational speed, but evaluating hundreds of responses still falls to small teams reviewing by hand—creating a bottleneck that slows every award and leaves each one exposed to protest.
Solution
Kharros provides an AI-assisted source-selection and contract-management platform that turns evaluation from a slow, one-off study into a fast, repeatable, and vendor-neutral product. The platform helps government teams structure source selection, compare contenders against the actual requirement, narrow the field with confidence, and verify that what was promised is what shows up after award. Contracting officers make every decision while the system preserves a complete evidence record, ensuring defensibility across the full contract lifecycle from solicitation through performance. The platform applies consistent standards to every vendor, reducing protest risk and enabling acquisition offices to move at the pace operators need.
Target Audience
Primary customers are U.S. government acquisition offices, including Department of War contracting teams, Space Force units, and defense agencies using Commercial Solutions Openings, Other Transaction Authorities, and similar rapid acquisition mechanisms.
Features
- AI-assisted source selection that structures evaluation against defined requirements and narrows contender fields with confidence
- Proposal evaluation workflows that apply consistent, vendor-neutral standards across all submissions
- Complete evidence preservation for every acquisition decision, supporting defensibility and protest mitigation
- Contract-management capabilities that carry rigorous evaluation from solicitation through delivery and performance verification
- Down-select workflow tested against live field data at Naval Postgraduate School's JIFX 26-4 field experimentation event
- Assessed awardable in the CDAO's Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace for direct use by government customers