Free Workshop! Native Procurement Technical Assistance Center & The Ketchikan Indian Community Present: Marketing to Agencies & Prime Contractors The Native Procurement Technical Assistance Center (Native PTAC) and Ketchikan Indian Community invite you to attend our FREE business workshop, January 14th, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Southern Southeast Alaska Technical Education Center. Native PTAC is a community resource whose intent is to...

Free Workshop! Native Procurement Technical Assistance Center & Sitka Tribe of Alaska Present: Marketing to Agencies & Prime Contractors The Native Procurement Technical Assistance Center (Native PTAC) and Sitka Tribe invite you to attend our FREE business workshop, January 13th, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi. Native PTAC is a community resource whose intent is to help new and established Individual, Tribal,...

2015 AIR FORCE CONTRACTING SUMMIT The Summit will consist of morning and afternoon general sessions on January 13, 2015, including contracting presentations from senior military contracting officials; the latest details on new contracting opportunities; and a networking lunch with exhibitors. Registration opens at 8:00am. Program begins at 9:00am and ends at 4:00pm. Venue: The Soundside Club, USAF Hurlburt Field, Mary Esther, FL. A special Air...

Join The George Mason University PTAP, Procurement Technical Assistance Center and Jennifer Scahus (Government Contracts Consultant) provide an intense GSA Schedule Hands-On Workshop. The workshop provides attendees with the assistance on the Administrative, the Technical and the Pricing sections of the GSA Schedule. The class will take place at the Mason Enterprise Center Incubator in Leesburg, VA. NOTE: Prerequisite is the GSA Webinar being...

Since 2006, your agency has been working to meet the Guiding Principles. By December 15, 2015 your agency must bring 15% of your building inventory into compliance. The Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program has created a series of 1-hour courses to help you meet compliance. Getting Started and Guiding Principle I - Employ Integrated Assessment, Operation, and Management Principles Guiding Principle II - Optimize Energy Perfo...

Government acquisition processes can only maintain our country's technological superiority by challenging the status quo. The need to lower cost, increase efficiency and open the playing field for non-proprietary technology is driving fundamental changes in the way government buys. Today's contracting officer operates in an environment that is changing at an accelerating pace. Complex technology, enterpreneurial start-ups, and electronic deliv...

Join The George Mason University PTAP, Procurement Technical Assistance Center and Jennifer Schaus (Government Contracts Consultant) for a complimentary webinar on The GSA Schedule, a marketing tool for government contractors. This webinar is a pre-requisite for the GSA Schedule Hands On Workshop January 8, 2015 at The Mason Enterprise Center Incubator in Leesburg. Registration for the Webinar: http://www.novaptac.org/eventcalendar/detail.asp?...

You should only read this if you lead or work for a small business concern and are not opposed to learning about: a segment of government contracting experiencing a multi-year upturn in spending; opportunities requiring less initial investment and level of effort to pursue; procurements where more obligated dollars are competed versus those resulting from a direct award or modification, and; acquisitions where seventy-percent of total reporte...

This 2-day, high-energy and interactive business class focuses on 4 major dimensions of winning new and recompete Federal contracts: (1) Proposal STRENGTHS, (2) Proposal Readiness (proposal thinking and proposal illustrating), (3) Proposal Writing, and (4) Proposal Knowledge Management. We will examine the criticality of articulating and illustrating STRENGTHS (not themes or discriminators) in terms that resonate with Government Source Selecti...

Contrary to a current myth, a GSA Schedule contract is not required by law or regulation to obtain a government contract, but it is an excellent sales tool to obtain government business by means of task or delivery orders. A GSA Schedule is a simplified process of acquiring commonly used commercial supplies and services. But obtaining a schedule contract is neither simple nor easy, and subjects the commercial contractor to numerous laws and re...