Let’s start off with this — I have been blessed to work with wonderful small businesses. That being said, small business contracts can be among the toughest contracts. I think this is due to four areas. 1) New, inexperienced contract specialists are often assigned small business contracts. I hear this on both the civilian andRead… Read more »
This weekend, after living in NYC for seven years, we got an EZ Pass. As we whizzed by a toll line on the RFK bridge that was a good fifteen minutes long, my wife asked “Why didn’t we have one of these before?” I answered, “Because they haven’t built EZ Pass to make it easyRead… Read more »
Authored by Jeff White How well do you know your teaming partners? Do you know what government agencies they’ve worked with? What contracts they’ve held? What actions the government may have taken against them in the past? And are you taking their word for it? You might not recognize the risk you’re taking if you’reRead… Read more »
April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in detail the type of content that goes into compliant,Read… Read more »
In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing processRead… Read more »
SWIPE FEES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hill reports. “Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) has reaped a windfall in contributions from banks and lobbyists since introducing legislation to delay new regulations on debit-card swipe fees.” LIMIT ON ANONYMOUS DONATIONS? Politico reports. “The Obama administration is considering a number of measures to compel disclosure of the kind of anonymousRead… Read more »
Senior Analyst Chris Cotner recaps last week’s state and local executive breakfast in Raleigh, North Carolina. For those in attendance at INPUT’s North Carolina State and Local Executive Breakfast in Raleigh on April 15, 2011, future IT business prospects with state and local governments are certainly improved after the presentations from the CIOs in theRead… Read more »
Under the terms of a sweeping legislative package signed into law yesterday, Virginia will spend nearly $4 billion on transportation infrastructure over the next three years. The money is expected to fund more than 900 projects statewide without raising taxes. Projects are will range from road and bridge improvements to increased rail and transit services.Read… Read more »
Well, I’m enough of a nerd to be excited about this. I knew Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive section on contract law. While you could read all the articles, a fast way to get summaries of it is using Qwiki, which reads aloud Wikipedia articles. The contract law section that Qwiki draws from isn’t perfect,Read… Read more »
If the first hint you have of an upcoming contract award is its listing on FedBizOpps, you’re behind, according to the panel of government contracting experts at the latest GovWin Virtual Roundtable, “Win or Go Home: How to Thrive in the Budget-Crunched, Extra-Competitive Government Contracting Environment.” [Read the rest of my article at GovWin.com.] FiledRead… Read more »