Registration for this event is now closed. We are pleased to announce the NSA Acquisition/Industry Partnership Exchange (NAIPE) on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute. NAIPE is not a "How to do Business with NSA" event. This event is formulated to benefit contractors currently working with our Agency and already possessing a deep understanding of our business practices. COMPANIES REPRESENTED MUST BE CURRE...

Did you know that all the best-in-class government-wide vehicles are being recompeted in 2022 and 2023? BD Squared’s Stephanie Mitchell and Brian Friel help you make sense of the booming GWAC landscape, with $20 billion in spending per year and growing. Join us in person on April 19 to learn how you can balance GWACs as a small business, what you should pursue at the vehicle and task-order level, what you should team on and what you shou...

There’s no bigger federal contract opportunity this year than Services MAC, the GSA’s new super IDIQ for professional services with a 20-year period of performance. Services MAC will cover more than 120 NAICS codes and 13 size standards, with eight domains debuting in 2022 and five more slated for 2023. Billions of dollars will flow through the vehicle, which will replace GSA’s OASIS, BMO, HCaTS and other federal contracts. T...

Services MAC and Polaris: Prepping, Teaming and Bidding Are you ready for the decade’s two biggest governmentwide vehicles for small businesses? Polaris and Services MAC are coming. Polaris could be the go-to vehicle for billions in IT services small business task orders, and Services MAC is likely to be the number one source of federal professional services dollars for small businesses. Whether you are SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBzone, 8(a) or jus...

Join us for this webinar that will provide a review of the implications of the European Defence Fund (EDF), Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), and the pending U.K. procurement and industrial cooperation policy changes on intra-European cooperation and external market access. Topics to include: A timeline of events – from ‘Brexit’ to the publication of the U.K. Integrated Review and the commencement of the EDF. The fact...

AFCEA International's Changing Face of Federal Acquisition webinar series is a comprehensive and practical exchange of information providing important ground truth for knowing where to be from an acquisition perspective. This is about traditional contracting practices, streamlined procurements, rapid acquisitions and more! Brought to you by AFCEA's Small Business Committee. It seems like every day there is another notable acquisition within th...

The recompete of one of the most important small business IT services, GWACs, is right in front of us. Polaris will host billions of dollars in federal technology services work throughout the 2020s and into the 2030s. GSA has indicated that they will use a scorecard methodology to decide which companies will be prime contractors on these vehicles for the next decade. BD Squared’s Stephanie Mitchell and Brian Friel, who have supported win...

This webinar is an AFCEA member-exclusive event. AFCEA International's Changing Face of Federal Acquisition webinar series is a comprehensive and practical exchange of information providing important ground truth for knowing where to be from an acquisition perspective. This is about traditional contracting practices, streamlined procurements, rapid acquisitions and more! Brought to you by AFCEA's Small Business Committee. The webinar will run...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. This conference is unclassified and attendees must be from companies actively working/under contract with NSA. NSA Acquisition/Industry Partnership Exchange (NAIPE) is designed to give NSA's industry partners the opportunity to meet with representatives from select Agency organizations to discuss issues they are experiencing while doing busine...

The biggest IT services contract competitions are right around the corner. Both large and small businesses will be vying in December for slots on the CIO-SP4 vehicle, which will likely see at least $50 billion in orders over the coming decade. But winning the vehicles are just a license to hunt--the next step is preparation. BD Squared’s Brian Friel and Cidney Quenzel will give insider tips on how to prep, win, target customers, build te...