There are 138 active postings for federal opportunities in the state of Montana. Some examples include: Notice ID: 1282A721Q4001 Forest Service – 50 Ton Folding Gooseneck Trailer – Offers due Dec 30, 2020 Notice ID: FA4626-21-Q-0001 Malmstrom Air Force Base – Laundry Services – Offers due Jan 7, 2021 Notice ID: 12805B21Q0039 USDA … Read more
Visit the Montana PTAC YouTube channel for a tutorial on how to search for federal opportunities over $25K and set up saved searches that will also notify you of new opportunities. This same subject was previously recorded in May 2020 but has since been re-recorded to include some new information. CLICK HERE to watch the … Read more
Most equipment used for wildland fire suppression in the Northern Rockies are on three-year incident support agreements that are competed and awarded preseason. Solicitations are staggered so that roughly a third of the equipment categories are solicited each year. Equipment that is solicited and awarded preseason by the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, … Read more
The U.S. Air Force (AF) invites small business firms to submit proposals under this Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Firms with the capability to conduct research and development (R&D) in the AF-related topics described in Section 10.1 and to commercialize the results of that R&D are encouraged to … Read more
The following is from the “How To Help – Private Sector” section of https://www.fema.gov/coronavirus/how-to-help, which was last updated on March 27, 2020. Please check that website for the latest, as the following bullet points have been updated several times over the past week. To sell medical supplies or equipment to the federal government, please submit a price quote … Read more
The procurement forecast for the upcoming quarter has already been posted by the State Procurement Bureau at https://spb.mt.gov/Vendor-Resources/Procurement-Forecast. You may want to check back a few times in the coming days and weeks, as some agencies are slow in reporting and the forecast will be updated as those new forecasts come in. The forecast provides … Read more
Many of you know that what drives where federal contracting opportunities are posted is the dollar amount. If opportunities are over $25,000 in value then they are required to be posted on beta.SAM.gov under “contracting opportunities.” But what about opportunities that are less than $25,000? In many/most cases a business would need to contact the … Read more
The State of Montana has posted its procurement forecast for January- March 2020 at https://spb.mt.gov/Portals/221/Procurement%20Forecast/Final%20Report_1.2020.pdf?ver=2020-01-29-170955-970. This forecast includes anticipated state solicitations over $5,000. If you have any questions about how to read this forecast or how to position your company to supply these goods and services to the state, contact your local PTAC office.
When the General Services Administration decommissioned FedBizOpps (www.fbo.gov) in November, one of its most-used features by federal contractors was not immediately available in the new system at beta.SAM.gov: Email notifications of search results from saved searches (known in FedBizOpps as search agents). This feature is now available for “contracting opportunities” searches in beta.SAM.gov. Here are … Read more
I was reviewing minutes from the September 10 meeting of the Board of Madison County Commissioners and saw that they had approved the Cooperative Purchasing Memorandum of Understanding with the Montana Department of Administration. It reminded me that in Montana, local governments, school districts, tribal governments other “local procurement units” are permitted by law to … Read more