Avoid Templated Proposal Cover Letter To the Federal Government Companies tend to minimize the impact of writing a meaningful proposal cover letter when bidding on government contracts. As a result, the source selection team does not feel the excitement in wanting to find out more about what you have to… Read more »
Positioning Small Businesses for Federal Government Contracts and SDVOSB Contracting : SDVOSB Certification Requirements, Mistakes to Avoid, and Preventing SDVOSB Fraud Introduction: Small businesses play a crucial role in the economy, driving innovation, creating jobs, and contributing to local communities. For many small businesses, securing federal government contracts can provide… Read more »
The Prompt Payment Act (PPA), as enacted by Congress requires the government to pay invoices by the required due date. As a practical matter, the federal government usually pays invoices within 30 days. However, this does not always happen. As a government contractor, your ability to collect prompt payments from the federal government is essential to… Read more »
As a government contractor, you should quickly become aware of federal government performance based contracts under FAR Part 37. This is critical at the bidding stage as well as understanding your obligations at the performance stage. Responding to government bids creates much confusion for businesses that are not familiar with… Read more »
The government seeks appealing competition when it rates your response to RFP’s. Many small businesses find it difficult to keep up a competitive edge. However, this hurdle can be eliminated by doing some basic things. This article will give you some rfp response tips. Reading the Solicitation from beginning to… Read more »
Proposal Writing Strategies That Also Can Withstand a Bid Protest. As a Federal Government contractor, it is important to understand how the agency evaluates your proposal. If you are fortunate to get the award, you now have to probably withstand a bid protest to GAO or some other forum. The first step… Read more »
Mistakes Made By Large Businesses When deciding how to write a government proposal, large businesses are required to pass on work to smaller businesses. This need is usually set out in the solicitation by requiring a small business subcontracting plan. Typically, large businesses may simply submit a subcontracting plan that does… Read more »
Overcome the Most Costly Hurdles and Mistakes Seen in Government Contracting. Government contractors are winning contracts every day from the government. A cursory review of www.fbo.gov proves this point. Businesses find it hard to break the ceiling into government contracting and are oftentimes reluctant to put for the effort. This is… Read more »
Many commercial businesses are revisiting business initiatives to generate more revenues. When it comes to learning how to get Federal Government contracts, some companies have thought about doing business with the federal government but dismiss the idea simply because they have no government contract training, have heard horror stories about federal… Read more »
Landing government contracts in a nutshell, means that you must abide by a complex set of rules. Doing business with the federal government is substantially different that doing business in the commercial world understanding the gruesome task of marketing to the federal government can be a cumbersome task. Government contractors with… Read more »