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“DEFENSE OPINION” By NANCY LANGER “Procurement consolidation limits opportunities for smaller players to shore up America’s military industrial base as the world pivots to newer, cheaper forms of asymmetric warfare. It is time to use contract dollars to fuel the creativity and productivity of America’s small business contractors.”…
“SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson “Comparing small business federal government contracting to selling commercial products and services may be useful for those who are considering melding commercial and federal government business or starting an enterprise involving both venues”. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ “WHAT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT…
“SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson “Sculpting a government contracting business opportunity to the point where it becomes a small business set aside procurement.” ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Marketing is one of the greatest challenges for the small business federal government contractor. We have previously discussed the federal…
“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” – By Nick Coppings “How developing your teams human-IQ can transform customer relationships and secure your revenue pipeline. Organizations with high recompete win rates understand that relationship quality is the best leading indicator of winning.” ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “We lost HOW…
“SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson “A contingent hire agreement is one way to approach an experienced employee with the prospect of joining your firm at a later time when the business base is there to permit professional advancement. In many instances under such an agreement the prospective employee agrees to contribute time and effort on a […]
“GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE” By Edward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW‘ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Benefits Enterprise Platform a new Digital GI Bill System and the agency’s large-scale Electronic Health Record Modernization Project have been plagued by cost overruns, delays and oversight issues.” “Efforts to modernize a…
“U.S. VETERANS MAGAZINE” By USVM “Increasingly, employers, policymakers and community organizations recognize the economic and professional potential of military spouses. That growing awareness has helped expand training, funding and business support designed specifically for entrepreneurs who build careers alongside military life.”…
“THE PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT” By Don Bell “For decades, Republicans and Democrats have greenlit a massive surveillance apparatus. What happens when this powerful tool is in the hands of the wrong person?” ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “You are being watched. From Automated License Plate Readers on your street, to…
“SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson “It may seem like a “Chicken and Egg” process – but every business working in the classified venue has to go through the gates discussed in this article and maintain a vigilant program of compliance with associated regulations.“ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “While exploring the federal…
“DEFENSE ONE” By Peter W. Singer “The math of current battlefields remains literally orders of magnitude beyond what our budget plans to spend, our industry plans to build, our acquisitions system is able to contract, and thus what our military will deploy.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “At the lowest…
Small businesses see this type bundling or consolidation as preventing them from receiving contract awards, effectively shutting them out of the market. Jennifer Jones explains the tiered system of approvals required by the FAR to represent small business interests. From the “DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIVERSITY” Article, ‘Contracting Concepts: Bundling and Consolidation’ By Jennifer Jones, Professor of…
