Business Development Blog
On Wednesday, June 8, learn about the tools, technology, and industry experts that leading government contractors are leveraging to better position themselves to win major contract vehicles, like Services MAC, as well as how they’re using these modern technologies ...
Proposal Management Best Practices
We have seen it time and again. You’ve executed an outstanding capture effort. You learned everything the customer wants. You’ve assembled a team of all-star companies who have past performance identical in size, scope, and ...
The OST Global Solutions Foundations of Federal Business Development training is a two-day intensive training experience that offers essential skills in professional business development for government contractors selling services and solutions to the Federal ...
The General Services Administration (GSA) on Friday issued a call for feedback on the latest version of the Request for Proposals (RFP) for its new small business IT services contract, Polaris Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). Potential bidders in the ...
OST Global Solutions is very excited to announce that Olessia Smotrova, President/CEO, has been chosen to speak at the National 8(a) Association 2022 Alaska Regional Conference. She will speak on a panel covering best practices for developing competitive rates on ...
OST Global Solutions is the home of the Bid & Proposal Academy. We have codified our best practices in our courses, and we teach these processes and techniques that we use to win at the highest level of Government contracting – from small to large ...
A bid protest that caused the General Services Administration to pause its rollout of Polaris, the agency’s new IT-focused governmentwide acquisition contract, has been dismissed. GSA is reviewing whether additional changes are warranted for the solicitations for ...
One of the major issues we have seen with over and over during our consulting engagements is that many organizations struggle formally moving opportunities from their pipeline into capture, which is discussed more in a video here: https://youtu.be/PAGKNsfGtuA. ...
The State Department is planning to release a Request for Proposal (RFP) within the next five months for a $5 billion blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for IT hardware products.
The opportunity, known as Access, will provide multiple awards with a 5-year base ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a Screening Information Request (SIR) for the Information Technology Innovative Procurement for Strategic Sourcing Procurement (ITIPPS). ITIPPS is a new, multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity ...
The Department of State announced last week they will release a revised draft Request for Proposals (RFP) in the coming weeks for its Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) Evolve contract, an $8-billion IT-Services Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity ...
On March 31, 2022, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued four rules that increase small business size standards for different sectors, including agriculture; education services; professional, scientific, and technical services; and transportation. ...
On Wednesday, April 6 at 1pm ET, join representatives from OST Global Solutions and TechnoMile as they share the latest developments on Polaris — the GSA’s new governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) — and provide expert guidance on how government contractors ...
How will the General Services Administration (GSA) choose awardees for Polaris, the agency’s new IT-based governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC)?
By developing a scorecard proposal like Polaris, GSA has limited the use of narratives, making it less clear ...
The General Services Administration (GSA) has issued final solicitations for Polaris, the agency’s new IT-focused governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC), in both the Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and the Small Business (SB) pools. Proposals in these two ...
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The General Services Administration (GSA) made significant changes to the Polaris Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) draft solicitation and scorecard, including expanding options for teaming arrangements.
GSA ...
The capture managers dilemma is a tight budget and tough competition.
How do you deal with that?
There are several different ways to help the situation.
First is, work on your professional skills, upskilling yourself.
How does that help? You could do a ...
The General Services Administration’s (GSA’s) Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) has finalized its small business acquisition strategy for its new Best-in-Class Multiple Award Contract (BIC MAC) to replace GSA’s One Acquisition Solution for ...