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Secret Agencies
We are not talking about NSA, CIA or any other spy agencies, we are talking about unknown agencies would drive right past their office and not know they were there. I should know, I …
Sole Source Contracts at 31% according to GAO
According to John Hutton the Director of Director of Acquisition and Sourcing at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal spending for non-competed contracts dropped from 36% to 31% …
3 Steps to doubling Your Profits in 180 days…
Did you know 20% of your clients make up 80% of your profits? These are your “A” list customers. Did you know that 80% of your internal …
Mythbuster: FedBizOps
Myth: Is the best place to find new opportunities really FedBizOps? If you go there right now you will find around 38,400 opportunities. Huge, right? Look closer… those 38,400 are categorized in one of …
85% of federal opportunities have less than 4 competitors…
We recently compiled a federal intelligence report for our utility construction client located on the east coast… Over the past two years $3.9 Billion was spent with contractors on various forms of utility construction for the federal government and ¼ of the opportunities had only ONE response. 85% of the 11657 of the contracts awarded had less than 4 responses. That’s $2.7 B in awards that had less than 4 competitors.

What do a Blood Pressure Kiosk, a Lobster Tank and Coca-Cola have in common? They, along with thousands of other purchases, were all executed by the very same contracting officer in the federal government…
Earlier this month USDA announced a joint effort with the Navy to Encourage the Development and Use of Renewable Energy. This is in addition to the USDA announcement of their collaboration with GSA on a $500 …
Last week was no April fools. In the first 5 days of the month, 368 contracts were awarded in 47 states for a total of $414,815,821.60 – all under ONE construction NAICS classification 236220.
That is one …
Excerpted from Doing Business with the Government Handbook by Dave Lowe
A friend of mine was asking how we can get an idea of what is coming down the pike for opportunities with the federal government, …
Before you do anything, find out where the money is and who is in charge spending it.
isiFederal Intelligence Products tell you who is buying from your competition and how much of your tax dollars are going …
Before you do anything, find out where the money is and who is in charge spending it.
isiFederal Intelligence Products tell you who is buying from your competition and how much of your tax dollars are going …


