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Mastering How to Get Government Contracts

Select GCR

This no-nonsense guide walks you through the contracting process, from initial eligibility to bidding, and ultimately enables your small business to win contracts available every fiscal year. Registering your business with SAM (System for Award Management) is a prerequisite to start bidding for contracts. You’re in the right place!

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Simplifying Public Sector Procurement: Strategies to Increase Sme Participation

The Procurement School

The suggestions apply to all segments of competitive bidding, including the SME segments of Supplier Diversity, Indigenous and Social Procurement. These reactions can lead to strict risk management and purchasing policies with overly complicated bid documents and onerous requirements that are imposing on potential SME bidders.

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Contractors say new Pentagon procurement rule could undermine people with disabilities

Federal News Network

Tom Temin And that $2 million that you mentioned, contract threshold, that is a significant reduction from the requirement for periodic competition now, which is 10 million. And I’m just hoping that in the final rule that we see some move from the proposed rule back to the way that the DoD. Originally had proposed it.

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

A contract notice makes sure everyone knows what’s up for grabs, who’s bidding, and how decisions are made. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. Bid A bid is a proposal that potential suppliers submit in response to a public contract opportunity.

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what is the difference between public and private sector procurement?

The Procurement School

Specific procurement requirements, including the dollar value thresholds beyond which a competitive process must be conducted, are typically embedded in internal policies and come from the various free trade agreements designed to eliminate discrimination based on jurisdiction of origin.

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Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups

Nitrous: Public Procurement

Create a single directory for public sector opportunities Any business that has bid for public tenders knows all too well what an arduous process it can be. Larger organisations have considerably greater resources at their disposal, in many cases sizeable bid management teams, to locate, track and apply for tenders – startups do not.

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Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

the quantity and depth of new information) and whether new information is actionable for key stakeholders such as bidding firms; and (ii) the nature of demand for transparency, that is the existence of data users who are willing and able to act upon the information published. However, the average number of received bids increases by 0.5

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