Guidehouse

Guidehouse, Inc.

Company type	Private
Traded as	Template:NYSE was Nasdaq: METZ
Industry	Professional services
Headquarters	Tysons, Virginia (Global)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Scott McIntyre (CEO)
Revenue	$3 billion
Owner	Bain Capital (2023–present)
Number of employees	18,000 (2025)
Website	guidehouse.com

Guidehouse, Inc. operates as an international professional services organization delivering advisory, technological, and managed solutions to both commercial enterprises and government agencies. The firm originated from the public sector division of PwC and was acquired by Veritas Capital in 2018. Its main office is situated in Tysons, Virginia.

In December 2023, Bain Capital completed the purchase of Guidehouse for $5 billion.

History

Initially part of PwC’s U.S. public sector operations, Guidehouse was spun off when New York-based private equity firm Veritas Capital purchased it in 2018. Scott McIntyre remained as CEO while Deborah Ricci took on the role of CFO.

Since establishing itself as an independent entity under the Guidehouse name, the company reached an estimated valuation near $7 billion by 2023. Its growth strategy included acquiring firms such as Navigant Consulting Inc for $1.1 billion in 2019 and Grant Thornton LLP’s public sector advisory unit in 2022, following its earlier acquisition of Dovel Technologies.

The acquisition by Bain Capital in December 2023 marked a pivotal point in Guidehouse’s expansion and development of its global footprint.

Navigant Consulting

Founded in 1983 by Richard Metzler as The Metzler Group Inc., Navigant Consulting specialized in management consulting services targeted at energy and regulated sectors. The company went public on NASDAQ in 1996 under the ticker METZ and rebranded to Navigant Consulting, Inc. in 1999 shortly before listing on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2000, William M. Goodyear assumed the positions of chairman and CEO.

In 2005, Navigant was accused of billing Los Angeles County excessively for consulting work related to Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, with contested charges surpassing $206,000. Despite their involvement, the hospital failed to meet federal Medicare requirements in 2006, prompting a comprehensive restructuring effort led by the county.

Julie Howard took over as CEO in 2012. By April 2018, Navigant entered into a joint venture with Baptist Health South Florida to provide revenue cycle management services tailored for healthcare providers. Later that year, Navigant divested its dispute and investigative services division to Ankura Consulting in a transaction valued at $470 million.

Navigant Consulting Acquisitions

Date	Company	Business	Price
1997-08-17	Resource Management International Inc.	Engineering	$82,000,000
1997-08-19	Reed Consulting Group	Energy consulting	n/a
1998-09-02	Peterson Consulting	Information services	$160,000,000
2002-09-24	The Hunter Group	Healthcare consulting	$25,400,000
2004-02-02	Tucker Alan	Business and litigation consulting	$90,000,000
2006-03-24	Precept Programme Management Limited	Dispute advisory and program management consulting	$50,000,000
2007-08-10	HJA Consulting	Hydroelectric performance consulting	n/a
2009-01-12	The Bard Group	Healthcare consulting	n/a
2010-01-11	Summit Blue Consulting	Utilities consulting	n/a
2010-05-17	Daylight Forensic & Advisory	Financial consulting	$40,000,000
2010-10-04	Ethos Partners	Healthcare management consulting	$37,000,000
2012-07-11	Pike Research	Energy technology research	n/a
2012-10-03	Easton Associates	Life sciences consulting	n/a
2014-05-15	Cymetrix Corp.	Healthcare revenue management software and services	$100,000,000
2015-02-24	RevenueMed	Healthcare revenue management	n/a
2016-01-04	McKinnis Consulting Services	Healthcare revenue management	$52,000,000
2016-01-04	Dymedex Consulting	Life sciences consulting	n/a
2016-11-07	Ecofys	Energy and sustainability consulting	n/a
2017-11-02	Quorum Consulting	Life sciences consulting	n/a

Operations

After its acquisition from PwC, Guidehouse named Scott McIntyre as Chief Executive Officer and Deborah Ricci as Chief Financial Officer. The firm provides services to clients at the federal, state, and local levels, including major U.S. government agencies such as the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, and State.

As one of the largest privately held firms in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Guidehouse employed approximately 16,000 people across 53 offices worldwide and generated $3 billion in annual revenue as of 2018. By 2021, to accommodate the increasing demand for its consulting offerings, Guidehouse moved its global headquarters to Tysons, Virginia, while continuing to operate three offices in proximity to Washington, D.C.