What you may have missed if you were on Vacation
Hopefully you have been enjoying some time off this summer and if so, you probably missed some important news and stories. Here is a recap of some of the more interesting items you may have missed.
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2. Manage a GSA Contract,
3. Federal Marketing
To understand where your federal income tax money goes, you'd have to read (several times) the 244 pages of the 2014 Budget of the United States Government. Or you could take a look at this chart, which visualizes the budgets for all departments in a uniquely revealing look at our national priorities.
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3. Federal Marketing
GSA launched its new reverse auction platform this month, which it hopes will deliver increased savings for federal agencies on the most commonly purchased office products, equipment and services. The auction site is at reverseauctions.gsa.gov
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4. Selling Using your GSA Contract,
GSA Sales,
3. Federal Marketing
Updated February 27, 2014
Stop Chasing RFPs; Focus on Deal Creation
Any number of emerging government contractors call asking about the best way to find RFPs and which government RFP database/bid identification tool they should subscribe to. They askif they should get on the GSA schedule and what opportunities they might findon eBuy Should they optimize their search agents in FedBizOpps to get more RFP notices. They also ask about the value of subscribing to Deltek’s Input (http://govwin.com/), Onvia (www.onvia.gov) orePipeline (http://epipeline.com/). These are good tools but expensive for many small businesses. EZGovOpps is a good tool that is far less expensive (http://ezgovopps.com/). Some services also include state and local contract opportunities in addition to federal contracts.
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Maximizing Federal Sales,
Federal Inbound Marketing,
3. Federal Marketing
Abstract
This whiteboard session is about selling products and services that are not listed on your GSA Schedule contract.
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2. Manage a GSA Contract,
3. Federal Marketing
GSA has been marketing its GSA Schedules program to state and local governments for several years now and continues to see increased usage by the SLED market (State, Local, Educational).
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3. Federal Marketing
GSA Contractors are receiving notices about recent changes to their CCR record that necessitates a novation. These messages are in error and are a system glitch that GSA is aware of, so you can ignore if you received such an email and have not actually made any changes.
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2. Manage a GSA Contract
Government Contracting Remains Strong per New Study
The Annual Clarity Government Contractor Study being released this week reveals several interesting fact. This study discusses 2012 results and 2013 expectations. Some of the interesting findings include:
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3. Federal Marketing
So you are thinking about getting a GSA contract for your firm, but which schedule do your products or services fall under? The GSA Schedules program covers millions of products and services so it’s no wonder you may be confused. We’ve produced a mindmap infographic that depicts the list of GSA schedules visually. It partitions the schedules into some logical groupings:
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1. GSA Schedule - All about
