The award was one of nine handed out by the ERP vendor to its channel this month S&R, which also carries Deltek Costpoint, provides services to government contractors. Nashville, Tenn.-based Arrative Consulting, a govcon firm, was honored as Partner of the Year with accounting firm BDO winning services partner of the year. The Rising Star award went to The Alliance Groups, whose services included client advisory, staffing, government contracting and executive search. Outsourced Accounting Services Port Charlotte Fla., was the SMB Partner of the Year, while AEC-OPS, took home the honor as Referral Partner of the year. OAS sells Unanet software and provides training and consulting services for the Deltek line.  The services of AEC-Ops included strategic planning, project management and mergers and acquisitions. Unanet handed out two We are a Team. Honors. The one for the GovCon market went to CAVU Advisors Columbia, Md., while the award for architectural, engineering and construction was given to Technik Solutions Group of Lynchburg, Va. Finally, the Technology Partner of the Year award was presented to Knowledge Architecture, which markets Synthesis, an AEC intranet platform which integrates with packages including Deltek, Unanet, Newforma, and OpenAsset.