Are you ready to increase your win rate, eliminate challenges and distractions, increase your organization’s efficiency at responding to requests for proposals, and stop the cycle of reinventing the wheel? If so, you are not alone! Government contractors tend to …

Uncle Sam only wants to do business with ethical contractors — and not all of the government’s ethics rules are intuitive. In this webinar, government contracts attorneys Shane McCall and Steven Koprince explain the ins and outs of the key …

The U.S. export control and sanctions regulations are extraordinarily complex. Compliance with these laws is an enormous undertaking that requires a person to have extensive expertise, along with time to plan and the determination to see it through to its …

Accounting in Government contracting has its own unique and specialized rules, regulations, standards, problems, and hurdles. Compliant accounting systems that provide meaningful information require solid foundations built on principles, regulations, and industry best practices. Everything in Government contracting – negotiation, …

When you’re having success in federal contracting, you’re investing your profits in more business development and recruiting resources. How do you decide how much you can afford to spend and how fast? It’s a challenge to balance revenue growth with: …

For small businesses and their teammates, few government contracting topics are as confusing as the limitations on subcontracting (LoS) for set-aside and socioeconomic sole-source contracts. And if that isn’t stressful enough, the “LoS” is an area of heavy enforcement: get …

This is a two day event held on May 26 & 27, 2021. 673rd Contracting Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) is hosting the first annual Alaska-Wide Department of Defense (DoD) Virtual Industry Event.  This year’s theme is Partnering for a Successful …

The US Forest Service has restructured its geographic regions moving Alaska into the Forest Service’s Northwest Zone in October, 2020.  This change resulted in a centralized contracting region which means new contracting staff names for businesses involved in Forest Service …

To Bid or Not To Bid? It really is the $64,000 question. You know the feeling in the pit of your stomach when you see that great opportunity; it looks like it was written just for you… and there are less than …

Contractors performing service contracts for the federal government must comply with a set of labor standards dictated by statute and regulations. Principal among these is the requirement to pay employees the certain minimum prevailing wages and fringe benefits dictated by …

For service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and veteran-owned small businesses, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 Kingdomware decision was a game-changer. But five years later, where does the VA stand with implementing Kingdomware’s “veterans first” mandate, and how have the lower courts …

As an accountant presenting financial information to non-accountants, it’s important to take the approach that some of the accounting jargon you typically use around your peers may not be easily received by a non-accountant audience. Show non-accountants that you’re more …

Currently, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is actively working to meet its FY21 Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) goal in Alaska. To assist with this effort, Kathy Kinnett, small business professional for the USACE Alaska District, invites all WOSB …

FEMA supports disaster relief efforts throughout the United States. In this presentation, you will learn: How to volunteer How to avoid fraud and scams Where to register (DUNS and Sam.gov registrations, the disaster registry) The Federal Acquisition Regulation regarding the …

Winning a federal contract is tough work: an offeror has to submit a responsive and innovative bid, all at a fair and reasonable price. But often times, the path to victory starts even before a proposal is submitted. Sometimes, a …

In today’s competitive government contracting market, small business eligibility gives contractors a huge leg up. As more and more contracts are set aside for small, 8(a), HUBZone, veteran-owned and woman-owned companies, eligibility can be the key to success. Small business …

Jackie Robinson-Burnette is the former SBA Associate Administrator of Business Development (AA/BD) overseeing the 8(a) Program. Steven Koprince is a government contracts attorney focused on working with small businesses. Between them, Robinson-Burnette and Koprince have assisted thousands of 8(a) applicants, …

When is the last time that you have updated your SBA profile for the Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS)? You are required to update your SAM profile yearly, but are you updating the DSBS profile at the same time? If …