EPIC TIPS FOR GETTING GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS — FROM A PRO Government contracting veteran Lisa Martin opens up her playbook The U. S. government spends hundreds of billions of dollars each year buying everything from roads to commodes. And yes, that includes professional services. For example, in the government, marketing is called education and outreach. It includes just about every type of promotional service you can think of including, branding, website development, focus groups, advertising, marketing collateral, trade show support and more. Lisa Martin knows because her firm, LeapFrog Solutions, has been winning and fulfilling contracts with the federal government for 20 years. “We 've worked with nine different agencies—both as a prime contractor and subcontractor—and have provided the government with a full gamut of marketing services, said Ms. Martin. “Government contracts can be a great source of revenue for both new and established businesses. But to get those contracts, you have to understand the process and how to navigate it.” With that in mind, Ms. Martin provides these tips for doing business with the government: 1. Learn the government alphabet soup. There are scores of acronyms that are commonly used in government business—GSA, OSDBU, COTR, SDB, etc. Learning the federal lingo will make the process that much easier. 2. Know where to look for opportunities. Start with FedBizOps.gov GSAAdvantage.gov, GSAeLibrary.gsa.gov and SBA.gov/contracting. Chances are
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Although reducing costs and improving services have been cited as the most important reasons services are privatized by agencies, contracting out offers the attractiveness of hiring a contract employee over a public employee. This occurs because of the apparent advantages offered by such options (Dilger et al. 23). Some advantages of hiring a contract employee over a civil servant are as follows:
The United States government is the largest single purchaser of goods and services in the world. Even during times of economic hardship, the US continues to dump billions into the private sector. The federal procurement spending rate of growth has surpassed the rate of U.S. inflation every year, since 2000. With annual federal procurement budgets of more than $400 billion, it is no surprise that the competition for government contracts has increased tremendously. Consequently, more and more companies are trying to get a piece of the action. When these companies adhere to all of the required regulations and statutes, they expect their proposals to be evaluated and the contract awarded in
Government agencies are required to continuously improve the efficiency, quality and meaningful access of its services while streamlining the delivery. In a country with over 350 languages and more than 60 million individuals that speak a language other than English at home, federal agencies must find strategic and innovative ways to ensure all are capable of navigating the complex web of public services, programs and the legal system.
The employees of the government offices are paid by the government hence the reason that I do not believe they are considered a business at the government level.
Review the federal agencies list (it's in the module after this assignment) and find an agency or department applicable to your new business. How could this agency impact your business? Find out as much about the agency as you can. Tell the group about it.
a. The U.S. Federal government features a main legal requirement to purchase supplies as well as services on a competing and effective basis. Nevertheless, the U.S. Government has additionally applied via the procurement procedure particular guidelines to promote socioeconomic goals. Programs happen to be developed to supply elevated contracting possibilities to small-scale, small-disadvantaged, women-owned-and-run small-scale, HUBZone small-scale, veteran-owned small-scale, and service-disabled veteran-owned small-scale companies. Companies should also adhere to ancillary specifications arising beneath numerous laws and also Executive Orders (A/OPE, 2011).
With the growing regional population, Federal, State and Local governments will be hard pressed to expand infrastructure and services. For our operations in Georgia and South Carolina, this expansion presents an amazing opportunity in the government contracting arena as well. Federal, State and Local governments are scrambling to develop roads, schools and utility infrastructure. These efforts will require monumental support and services from the private sector. This is where OFS
Colleen Dillaway is a Sales and Marketing director for Bright House Networks. She has over 15 years of experience managing, public relations, and sales channels. She has crisis-management skills and media relations. She has a history working with ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX news. Dillaway showed the class commercials for Bright House and explained the approaches that were taken to reach different customers. I will apply the concepts Dillaway used and apply them to our textbook. In chapter 13 Public Relations and Marketing is the main focus. Marketing is the process of researching, creating, refining, and promoting a product or service and distributing that product or service to targeted consumers (pg. 402-3). Public relations are the values-driven management of relationships between an organization and the publics that can affect its success (pg.403). Dillaway had to collect research to better understand how to gain and keep customers. In the process of her research she was also able to better advertise Bright House services as well. For example, Dillaway informed the class how Bright House created a commercial to aim directly at Bakersfield customers in doing this the commercial was filmed here. Chapter 13 also defines advertising as controlled media in an attempt to influence the actions of targeted publics. Going back to the Bakersfield commercial, we can see the that the targeted publics was Bakersfield consumers.
Federal agencies are responsible for a large array of missions and goals, to achieve them all they use a variety of approaches which include but are not limited to contracts for acquiring goods and services ADDIN EN.CITE Weitzel20061127(Weitzel and Berns, 2006)1127112717Weitzel, UtzBerns, SjorsCross-Border Takeovers, Corruption, and Related Aspects of GovernanceJournal of International Business StudiesJournal of International Business Studies786-8063762006Palgrave Macmillan Journals00472506http://www.jstor.org/stable/4540384( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_4" o "Weitzel, 2006 #1127" Weitzel and Berns, 2006). It is very important that the agencies do acquire this goods and services in an effective, efficient and accountable way.
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Though business-like mechanisms can create a more efficient and potentially innovated government, government and business should be run differently, since they are inherently different in their conceptual values. Appleby explains some of these differences. He argues that no one can serve the public as it should be served unless he or she has a public-interest attitude with certain special characteristics. In addition, business has much narrower extent, while public officials are more broadly stimulated, with a breadth of view and a public-interest attitude. Government is complex as well as vastly interdependent with many other nonprofit and private organizations. Also, the government is subject to public scrutiny and public outcry. According to Denhardt and Denhardt, government acts, in concert with private and nonprofit groups and organizations, to seek solutions to the problems that communities face. In the process, the role of government is transformed from one of controlling to one of agenda setting, bringing the proper players to the table, facilitating, negotiating, or brokering solutions to public problems—often through coalitions of public, private, and nonprofit agencies. Finally, government is different from business
Big Spaceship is a digital marketing agency and its name is usually associated with numerous awards for its work with big brands such as Coca-Cola, Nike, HBO, and Miramax. However, the company’s size is relatively small compared to its achievements. Using a set of strategies and management skills, Big Spaceship established its uniqueness and superiority within its respective field. Its strategies include rising further than the assignments handed to them, look at the big picture, and a bidding process (Client “Filter”). Its management skills include finding and nurturing talent, creating a
Governmental policies and politics play a critical role in the realization of change in a public agency since the policies are developed and implemented at various levels (Dukeshire & Thurlow, 2002). Since these policies may range from formal regulations and legislation to informal guidelines in an agency, understanding them is important in the achievement of change in a public agency. A Public agency basically functions based on the established policies and politics in the government. Therefore, the accomplishment of the change in a public agency requires an increased understanding of the politics and policies of government.