Government Web Sites
The federal government has more than 4,300 web sites, according to a recent GAO report. Fortunately, if you're looking for contract opportunities, you don't have to cover all of those sites.
In order to help companies identify government opportunities and buyers, the government is making a strong effort to reduce the number of locations and to create a more uniform format to simplify the process. The government is looking to establish "gateways" (i.e., web sites with multiple links) to make your search easier. There are several already in existence that are being used more and more to post and find opportunities.
Following is a list of the better ones. Remember that these sites will help you find the opportunities, but once you do, you, not the government, will have to do the work.
- FedBizOpps (Federal Business Opportunities): All government procurement opportunities of $25,000 or more are posted here. Here, government buyers are able to publicize their business opportunities by posting information directly to FedBizOpps via the Internet, and commercial companies looking to do business with the government are able to search, monitor, and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire federal contracting community. (http://www.fbo.gov)
- Small Business Administration (SBA): This site has a wide range of information pertaining to small businesses as well as SBA-Net, a gateway to resources, opportunities, and networking. Most importantly, it has a direct connect to CCR database, which is fast becoming the sole database used by government buyers to locate potential small business contractors.
- Procurement Gateway: This is the Defense Logistics Agency site for all opportunities from its buying offices.
- Federal Acquisition Jumpstation: Although not a place where opportunities are posted, it has most links to the federal sites that small business owners would have an interest in.
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