CMMC: Build In-House vs. Partner Calculator

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Should You Hire a Compliance Team — or Partner With One?

Standing up CMMC compliance internally means hiring specialists, buying tooling, and pulling your existing staff off revenue work. For most small and mid-size contractors, partnering with an enablement provider gets you there faster and cheaper. This calculator shows the difference.

Path A — Build In-House

Yearly salary for a compliance/security employee ($) Include benefits and overhead. Enter part of the amount if it's a part-time role.

Compliance & security software per year ($) Subscriptions, licenses, and security tools

Hours your current staff spend on compliance per year Time pulled away from their normal work

What that staff time costs per hour ($) Roughly their pay plus overhead, per hour

Months to get ready on your own

Path B — Partner With ADS

Workstations (desktops/laptops)

Servers

Company phones & tablets Devices your business owns and manages

Personal phones & tablets used for work Staff-owned devices that access company data

How often you'd pay Longer commitments lower the monthly rate

Build In-House

First-year total$0

Three-year total$0

Time to get ready0 mo

Partner With ADS

One-time setup (get CMMC-ready)$0

Ongoing ADS support / month$0

First-year total$0

Three-year total$0

Est. time to get ready0 mo

Both the one-time setup and the monthly are estimates scoped from your environment — the monthly is all-inclusive (support, maintenance, backups, and priority response). A real quote is tailored to your specifics.

Compare the Two Paths

Path A — Build In-House. Enter:

Yearly salary for a compliance/security employee (or part of one), including benefits and overhead
Compliance & security software per year — subscriptions, licenses, and tools
Hours your current staff spend on compliance per year × what that time costs per hour
Estimated months to get ready on your own

Path B — Partner With ADS. Enter:

Your device counts — computers, servers, company phones & tablets, and personal phones & tablets used for work

Both the one-time setup to get CMMC-ready (assessment, documentation, and fixing the gaps) and your ongoing all-inclusive managed-services cost — support, maintenance, backups, and priority response built in — are calculated from your environment, so you don't have to guess either one. Pricing assumes monthly billing. Your time-to-readiness is estimated automatically (3–9 months) from the size of your environment.

The calculator returns a side-by-side first-year and three-year total, the estimated ADS monthly, plus time-to-readiness for each path.

Why Partnering Usually Wins

No hiring lag. A specialist hire can take months to find; we start now.
No idle tooling. You're not buying enterprise GRC software to use a fraction of.
Your team stays on mission. Engineers keep building product, not writing policies.
Continuous, not one-and-done. Readiness is maintained between assessments.

Remember: ADS is an enablement partner, not a C3PAO. We get you ready; an independent assessor certifies.

Next Step

Get a scoped estimate for your situation — start with the CMMC Readiness Checklist or explore CMMC Enablement.

Call: 800-863-3854

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We implement and maintain the controls — independent assessors verify them.