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You Won a Contract - Now What? Training Webinar | Part I

Strategic Outreach and Communications 

Training Webinar 

" You Won a Contract - Now What? " 

Part I 

What to expect if you win the contract from notice of award to close out. 

Date: January 4, 2024 

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (EST) 

Location: Powered By Cisco WebEx  


Click here to register >>     https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/weblink 

The webinar is intended for key employees and owners of small businesses pursuing Federal Government Contracts. Whether this is your first contract or subcontract, you are preparing to bid as a prime contractor, or want to improve the management and compliance of your federal awards, this training will assist in identifying what to pay attention to and what to expect from the time you start focusing on the bid or no bid for any contract, to the bid and proposal efforts. 


This training webinar will focus strongly on compliance, managing, accounting and finance and understanding contracting activities within the Federal Government and will demystify some of the concepts and notions often misinterpreted. 


This training is divided into two sessions to accomplish the overall objective to understand everything from cradle to grave.


Part II is scheduled for January 18, 2024    


Agenda:   

Becoming and Government Contractor

  • How the Federal Government Purchase for Good & Services 
  • What is the Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR 
  • Bidding on a Government Contract: Prime vs Subcontracting 
  • Understanding the Request from the Government
    1. RFI vs RFQ 
  • Type of Contracts: Full Fixed Price vs Time & Material vs Cost Plus Fixed Fee 

What is Bid and Proposal 

  • Understanding the B&P Process
  • Analyzing the Proposal:  To Bid or not to Bid
    1. Should we Prime or should we be a Subcontractor?
    2. Do we have the resources to bid?
  • Proposal Planning and Capture Management
  • Bid Compliance:  Section K Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Offerors
  • Anatomy of a Proposal
  • The Technical Proposal
  • Past Performance
  • The Cost Proposal
  • Addendums and Other Requested Information
  • Bid Preparation and Submission 
     

 

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