Compliance matrix serves as internal doc to keep proposal team compliant, finds disconnects, navigation and checklist tool, minimizes revisions, reviewer roadmap.

I've got a busy week ahead of me that includes kicking off our new Business Over Breakfast in Reston, VA, hosting a Federal Contractors Roundtable in DC, providing an overview of federal agency fiscal spending via webinar and speaking at the small business procurement conference in Fairfax hosted by Congressman Jim Moran. I've been asked to discuss "Growing Your Small Business with Simplified Acqu

APMP, the international association representing proposal, business development and capture management professionals, announced its new class of 2012 Fellows at the association's Bid & Proposal Con 2012 in Dallas, TX last week. The APMP Fellows Award is the association's highest honor and is designed to provide recognition to individuals who have made significant contributions to new business acq

Brenda Crist identifies Proposal Kick-off Planning Risks and recommended Mitigation Strategies as part of her series on mitigating capture and proposal risks.

Guy Timberlake is the Chief Visionary Officer of The American Small Business Coalition. He recently wrote a much commented on post regarding the growth of Simplified Acquisitions. Here’s the interesting part to me: “The GSA...

Never let it be said I'm not a proponent of the GSA Federal Supply Schedule. Trust me, if I wasn't, my friend Courtney Fairchild (Global Services) would be first in line to have my head. The "schedule" continues to be a useful tool for Government and often a "ticket to the dance" for many contractors, based on their offering and with whom they currently (or intend) do business.

A recent disturbing story about facilities management by the General Services Administration (GSA) in Chattanooga is a template for waste.

By definition, a simplified acquisition is one of the easiest ways for federal agencies to purchase goods and services in support of business and mission operations, and each fiscal year, hundreds of thousands of contract actions worth billions of dollars are issued to companies located around the world.

Brenda Crist identifies Competitive Analysis Risks and recommended Mitigation Strategies as part of her series on mitigating capture and proposal risks.

The issue of subcontracts management is a badly needed topic that has gotten little attention recently, either through proposed legislation, or anywhere else. I attended the Acquisition Excellence 2012 Conference a few weeks...

Posted by: SAP Task Force -- By definition, a simplified acquisition is one of the easiest ways for federal agencies to purchase goods and services in support of business and mission operations, and each fiscal year, hundreds of thousands of contract actions worth billions of dollars are issued to companies located around the world.

This Thursday morning, representatives from nearly one hundred small companies will converge on Columbia, MD to participate in the NSETS Industry Review hosted by our SBINT/CYBER Working Group. This sold out event will provide...

Data. Lots of it, and everywhere. From massive data warehouses to a plethora of flash media, we are surrounded by incredibly huge amounts of data thanks to the consistently decreasing costs of storage. Regardless if it’s the...

To date, the Air Force as a whole has executed nearly 5,000 contract actions for goods and services via simplified acquisition procedures, totaling over $173 million dollars.