Today is National PTAC Day

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National PTAC Day #PTACday

Today is National PTAC Day, a collective campaign to celebrate the contracting successes of small businesses that have benefited from training and technical assistance from their local Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTACs).

National PTAC Day unites the ninety-four PTACs and the 48,000 clients they serve by sharing, in real time, small business success stories and the significant economic impact that PTAC clients have created within their communities. This special day is being celebrated with social media campaigns, public relations initiatives, online trainings, in-person events and more. Go to https://www.aptac-us.org/ptacday/ to learn more.

If you’d be willing to share how the Montana PTAC has helped your business, please do so on your favorite social media platform(s), using the hashtag #PTACDay. Thanks for your support.

Does DLA buy what your company sells? Watch the video and find out.

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Small business represents a critical component of the Defense Logistics Agency’s industrial base. Through its five divisions, DLA relies on purchases from industry to reduce risk in its supply chain and improve the ability to provide resilient and secure support to the Warfighter. DLA has about twelve thousand suppliers and eighty percent of them are … Read more

Quarterly News from the Montana PTAC – June 2019

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If you missed our latest newsletter, you can view it here. Topics covered included: A recap of the small business industry day hosted by Northrop Grumman to inform Montana’s small businesses about potential subcontracting opportunities for its contract with the U.S. Air Force to upgrade/replace aging missile systems An article about the bid match service that … Read more

We have a quarterly newsletter!

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The Montana Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) started distributing a quarterly newsletter in December 2018. This newsletter has tips on government contracting and updates from the Montana PTAC. If you’d like to receive this newsletter, you can subscribe here (Clients are not automatically subscribed). If you’d like to catch up on what you’ve missed in … Read more

FARSite going away …again

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For two decades, you could go to one website, the FARSite (maintained by Hill Air Force Base), to search for certain clauses, words or phrases wherever they appeared in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the various FAR supplements. Then, at the beginning of last year, a notice appeared on the site that had acquisition officials in … Read more

Two new commodity codes added to eMACS

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The State of Montana recently added the following commodity codes to the Montana Acquisition & Contracting System (eMACS): 3956 – Professional Services – Concessionaire 5125 – Vehicles – Rental Car/Truck Services If either of these codes apply to your business and you wish to receive bidding opportunity notifications, you should log into your eMACS account … Read more

Montana releases state procurement forecast for first quarter of 2019

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The federal government may be shut down, but state and local governments are still operating and continuing to buy all kinds of goods and services. Here in Montana, the State Procurement Bureau (SPB) just released its quarterly procurement forecast at http://vendorresources.mt.gov/ProcurementForecast. For general tips on how to use this forecast, please read our earlier post. Some … Read more

Quarterly Procurement Forecast Released

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Four times a year, the State Procurement Bureau posts a forecast of anticipated purchases $5,000 and above for the current/upcoming quarter. The latest forecast, for October-December 2018, was just posted at http://vendorresources.mt.gov/ProcurementForecast. We encourage out clients to review these forecasts when they come out to see if the state is planning to procure any goods or services … Read more