It is no secret that the best time to peruse the multitude of Government procurement data is whenever you have a strong fresh cup (or gallon) of coffee. …

The Federal Government’s goal is to award at least 5% of all Federal Contracting Dollars to Woman Owned Small Businesses (WOSB and EDWOSB) each year. In 2015, Congress made changes to the WOSB Federal Contracting Program that made it easier for qualified small businesses to participate in the WOSB program…

It is no secret that the last year has been difficult. Juggling covid, kids, and careers has left even the most “together” individuals frazzled. Articles abound with news of how women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. …

In case you missed it, I had a webinar discussion with my friend Dan Rusert at Jamis Software on March 5. We talked about DCAA compliant accounting in the context of growing a federal contracting business. When contractors enter into agreements to provide goods and services to the Government, they must follow government acquisition guidance and regulations. The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) is the agency responsible for ensuring compliance with these regulations.

For a recent article from Yahoo Finance, GovTribe provided some procurement data to help illustrate the impact of the 2019 federal government shutdown. If you are a contractor working with any of the affected agencies, you have likely noticed a reduction in activity over the past month. As you can see in the chart below, the effect is real and dramatic. The total number of opportunity postings is down by nearly two-thirds across the affected agencies. For some, the reduction is extreme. Procurement activity for USDA and Commerce are down 90 percent.

GovTribe has compiled a calendar of small business events and vendor outreach sessions for just about every federal agency — civilian and defense. You can view the google calendar here and sync it to your own calendar. Disclaimer: GovTribe makes no guarantees that this calendar will be perfectly up to…

In addition to our comprehensive, live-updating database of federal prime contract award and spending, GovTribe does real time acquisition and integration of subcontract award data. What is a Subcontract Award? Subcontracts can be complicated, but here is a simple, high-level description for the uninitiated. The outcome of every completed federal procurement process is a prime…

What is an NSN? A National Stock Number (NSN) is a 13-digit numeric code assigned to every “standardized material item of supply” as recognized by the United States Department of Defense (as well as all NATO countries, and some non-NATO countries). …

On October 18, 2018, I had a chat with Brendon Dibella from StreetShares and Kevin Jans from the Contracting Officer Podcast and Skyway Acquisition Solutions to discuss recent trends in federal spending. Specifically, we took a look at disaster response spending trends, in light of another eventful hurricane season…