Once your company has worked with MT PTAC on the fundamentals required for federal contracting such as registration in SAM or other federal systems, set-aside certifications, market research, etc., you can begin searching for and responding to contracting opportunities. Your PTAC advisor can assist you with this process. The following tips from usa.gov and MT … Read more
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In case you missed our latest newsletter, you can view it here. Be sure to click the button at the top of the newsletter to subscribe. Articles include: 10 Mistakes Federal Contractors Make When Attempting to Register Their Entity in SAM “Your SAM registration is expiring”… or maybe not. Here’s how you can tell! Firm … 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
I’ve been a PTAC counselor for over five years. In that time, I’ve helped a lot of federal contractors register their entities in the System for Award Management (SAM), but I’ve also had the opportunity to review many entity registrations that contractors completed (or attempted to complete) themselves. This is a list of some of the … Read more
This is a follow-up to my earlier posts from December 2019 and February 2020 about the transition from the Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) to the Interagency Resource Ordering Capability (IROC), particularly as it pertains to the ability of wildland fire suppression contractors to set the availability of their resources themselves from an internet-connected … Read more
We’ve written before about companies that prey on smaller federal contractors and charge them hundreds of dollars for things like SAM registrations and renewals that are completely free. PTAC counselors across the country are constantly warning our clients about these companies, but their constant barrage of deceptive and confusing phone calls, emails, text messages, postcards, … Read more
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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 information was released on behalf of the Principal Director, Defense Pricing and Contracting (DPC). The purpose of Class Deviation 2020-00013 is to support affected DoD contractors using available acquisition tools to ensure that DoD remains a healthy, resilient, and responsive total force. Effective immediately, contracting officers are authorized to use Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement … Read more