May’s Seminar: Escape GovCon’s Terrible Trade-off | NCMA Dulles Corridor
The NCMA Dulles Corridor Chapter seminar this month is all about trade-offs. Is your company continually struggling with losing business due to excessive indirect expenses but at the same time having enough staff to maintain compliance?
Source: May’s Seminar: Escape GovCon’s Terrible Trade-off | NCMA Dulles Corridor
It’s Arrived! FAR Final Rule Addressing “Basic Safeguarding of Contractor Information Systems” | Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade Blog
After nearly four years of planning and comments, DoD, GSA, and NASA issued a final rule today amending the Federal Acquisition Regulations (“FAR”) …
OOPS Preview: Cost & Accounting: Items at the Top of the Ledger | Government Contracts Legal Forum
The past twelve months have seen major developments on cost and pricing issues relevant to the “top of the ledger” – as well as the bottom line. On May 26, 2016, at 11:00 am -12:00 pm, Crowell & Moring attorneys Terry Albertson, Steve McBrady, Rob Burton, and Skye Mathieson will highlight some of the most…
Source: OOPS Preview: Cost & Accounting: Items at the Top of the Ledger | Government Contracts Legal Forum
Doing proposals with other people | PropLibrary
Creating a proposal is easy. Working with other people is hard. Combine the two and you’ve got trouble.
A big part of the problem is that other people have opinions. They have their own ways of doing things. When you’re trying to do your proposal a certain way or say things in a certain way, it often doesn’t work out that way when other people are involved.
How to prepare for a proposal ahead of RFP release | PropLibrary
Sometimes you know you have an opportunity coming up and you want to get a head start on the proposal. Unfortunately, what a lot of people do to prepare for the proposal actually does more harm than good. So here are 3 things people do to prepare for an upcoming proposal that are counterproductive, 3 ways to prepare that can help you win, and 3 that can go either way.
Source: How to prepare for a proposal ahead of RFP release | PropLibrary
SBA Size Protests: File With Contracting Officer, Not OHA | SmallGovCon
SBA size protests must be filed directly with the relevant Contracting Officer; the SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals lacks jurisdiction over size protests.
Source: SBA Size Protests: File With Contracting Officer, Not OHA | SmallGovCon
109 vendors capture $11.5B HCaTS contract | Washington Technology
The General Services Administration and Office of Personnel Management have awarded the $11.5 billion governmentwide Human Capital and Training Solutions contract to 109 companies.
Source: 109 vendors capture $11.5B HCaTS contract | Washington Technology
Validating the quality of your proposals | PropLibrary
Conducting a proposal review with little or no preparation beyond printing the proposal and a copy of the RFP can be worse than not doing any review at all. You shouldn’t conduct every proposal review as if they are all the same. If you focus on having one major proposal review, you are probably making both of these mistakes. Passing proposal reviews should not be about trying the same ineffective approach only harder this time.
Source: Validating the quality of your proposals | PropLibrary
Discovering what it will take to win | PropLibrary
Everything you do, from lead qualification through proposal submission, should be based on what it will take to win.
DCAA Updates its Strategic Plan | PNWC’s Government Contracting Update
DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) recently published an updated strategic plan. The document addresses steps to create an ideal audit environment through 2020.
Source: DCAA Updates its Strategic Plan | PNWC’s Government Contracting Update