5 Things You Should Know About Simplified Acquisition Opportunities Simplified Acquisitions are a type of procurement that allow buyers to make purchases for goods and services in an expedited manner allowing agencies to engage with small businesses with far greater ease and speed. In Fiscal Year 2017, 68 federal agencies, boards and commissions issued and administered contracts and orders valued at nearly $22B, continuing an upward trend in u...

Understand government contractors' OFCCP requirements and the impact of new administration.Predicting what policy changes an administration will make is difficult after a typical first year in office . . . but this past year has been anything but typical. The current administration has already followed through on a number of its promises, which included relieving businesses of burdensome regulations proposed, enacted and enforced during the...

MID-TIER ADVOCACY BUSINESS FOCUSED BREAKFASTThe Tower ClubMonday March 26th 7AM to 9AM Crowdfunding, Size Standards, and Growth Strategies(Agencies, congressional staff invited)HURRY - RESERVE NOW!$49 MTA Member$69 Non-Member(price includes hot breakfast)

This workshop seeks to assist individuals in learning how to respond to a federal request for proposal (RFP). The course addresses all aspects of the proposal development lifecycle to include: pre-proposal actions, RFP dissection, compliance, proper response and management activities, and proposal reviews. Best practices and techniques for proposal development will be presented. This is not a proposal writing course. It is recommended that you...

Come hear from the best RFP Developer and the former Deputy Associate Administrator for GSA on how to read, analyze, and compose a proposal from Ms. Angela Holmes, as well as learning how your proposal will be graded by the buying agent, from Ms. Mirinda Jackson. We will be working through lunch on perfecting your proposal prepartion process, networking, and will be performing a mock proposal analysis. In addition we will have a special guest...

Global Services offers a 3-hour comprehensive post-award training seminar to assist our customers in complying with and maximizing their GSA Schedule. The seminar is designed to provide attendees with all the tools necessary to successfully utilize their GSA Schedule and to understand and fulfill all contractual obligations. The seminar offers an in-depth review of compliance issues, modifications, and overall contract administration. In addit...

Find out how to join 17,000+ companies on the GSA schedules. Topics include the advantages of GSA schedules, ordering methodologies, how to win business with a Schedule, working with contracting officers, schedule maintenance, and teaming.

Joint Alliant and Alliant SB DPA Training 3/14/2018 When: Wednesday, March 14, 2018Time: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard TimeWho Should Attend:All federal users including contracting officers, program office officials, managers, and executive staff are invited to participate in these complimentary webinars to learn how Alliant/Alliant Small Business can support their agency IT project initiatives. Warranted contracting officers must...

The US Navy has significantly simplified and expanded their access to VMware technology through the US Navy ELA/BPA. This contract between VMware and the US Navy will enable IT transformation and support alignment with the Navy IT modernization initiatives. Join VMware and Carahsoft for a complimentary webcast to learn more about the contract details and the IT Purchase Request (ITPR) and ordering process. During this session, the following to...

Requests for Proposals (RFPs) often are confusing, contradictory, or downright unintelligible. The impact on companies responding to such RFPs is substantial: You have to spend a great deal of time and energy trying to decode the RFP, and then adjusting your proposal accordingly. The Q&A process therefore is an important (though often neglected) element of effective proposal management. However, getting the answers, you want is not as stra...