How to secure contracts from the Federal Government and Prime Contractors

If your company does work with the Federal Government... or wants to... this is a must attend event! Meet leading prime contractors in Colorado as well as government officials and hear how businesses win contracts for work across many industries!

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS:

If you atteneded the Government Procurement Conference and would like copies of the PowerPoints used in the presentation, please enter the password found on the back of your agenda in the program handouts:

PROGRAM DETAILS:

Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Location: The Arvada Center for Arts & Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada
Time: 8-9 Registration/Networking/Exhibit 9:30-4 Program & Lunch
Cost: $55      To pay by check or cash, please call 303.202.2965 or contact Lida Citroën at lcitroen@jeffco.org.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

Trade Fair/Exhibit Hall, Registration & Networking

Doing Business with the Federal Government 101
- schedules
- where to register
- how to get “into the system”

How to Market to the Government
Categories for consideration (8a’s, service-disabled,)
Q&A Session with panelists

Keynote Lunch: Working with the Federal Government

Doing Business with Prime Contractors
Marketing to prime contractors
Wat do they look for? What is their process?
How to form and maintain relationships

Tools & Resources
FedBizOpps, Federal Procurement Data System,
- Next Generation (FPDS-Nex Gen)
- SBA
- Mentor/Protégé Programs

After You Get the Contract... What’s Next?
- Keeping the communication open
- Focusing on repeat business
- Ongoing marketing

SPEAKERS INCLUDE REPRESENTATIVES FROM:
US Department of Commerce
Lockheed Martin
CH2M Hill Companies
Ball Aerospace
GSA
Small Business Administration
USSPACECOM
Department of Energy
Schriever Air Force Base

This program was sponsored by Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace and is offered in partnership with General Services Administration and the Coalition of Jefferson County Business Organizations