Presentation Abstract: The first of the American Evaluation Association’s guiding principles calls for evaluators to engage in systematic inquiry to ensure accuracy and credibility of evaluation information produced, to involve clients in discussing evaluation questions and ways they may be answered and to communicate methods and approaches so that others will understand, interpret and critique their work. But how is this principle applied when evaluators are asked to step in at the eleventh hour to conduct an evaluation to meet the requirements of a grant? This paper discussed utilizing a problem solving approach to implement a systematic and meaningful inquiry and establish relevance even when conditions are messy and evaluation is an afterthought.#Prek-12EducationalEvaluation #2012Conference