January 12, 2016 SAM.gov registration is free, and help with SAM is free, too Source: Georgia Tech PTAC, November 11, 2013 Businesses interested in Federal contracting must, as an initial step, register in the Government’s vendor database known as System for … Continued
December 30, 2015 Colorado PTAC is awarded the El Paso County 2015 Economic Development Project of the Year Source: Colorado PTAC, Gary Henry, December 29, 2015 The Colorado Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) received the El Paso County Economic Development … Continued
November 22, 2015 Contracting professionals attend workshops in Washington, D.C. Source: Contracting Academy, Chuck Shadl, November 18, 2015 On Sunday, November 8, 2015, the Academy presented “Counseling Businesses for Government Contracting Success,” a workshop featuring seven case studies based on … Continued
Award honors small business entrepreneurship Source: Quad-City Business Journal, Article published Jul 9, 2015 Brenda Gillman, president of PakSource in Rock Island, has received the 2015 Small Business of the Year Award from the Illinois Procurement Technical Assistance Center at … Continued
Oklahoma Bid Assistance Network’s Findeiss Recognized by SBA’s Oklahoma District APTAC congratulates Oklahoma Bid Assistance Network (OBAN) PTAC’s Larry Findeiss, who was named 2015 Veteran Small Business Champion by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Oklahoma District. Findeiss is active … Continued
University of Houston PTAC Advisor Sutton Recognized by SBA’s Houston District The Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (APTAC) congratulations Deidra Sutton for being named 2015 Minority Small Business Champion by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Houston District. Sutton, … Continued
Growing your business with government contracts If you’ve ever filled out a request for proposal for a government contract, you know those RFPs require some I dotting and T-crossing expertise. Enter PTAC. The Kentucky Procurement Technical Assistance Center was developed … Continued
Omega Container, a small manufacturing company that fabricates shipping and storage containers for military munitions, has been working with the Northwest Louisiana PTAC for nearly 20 years. When – about 10 years ago – the owner suffered a severe stroke … Continued
By Adam Mazmanian for FCW.com May 15, 2015 Open government activists have a long-standing dislike for the DUNS number, the proprietary business identifier used in government procurement. The problem as they see it is that because the Dun & Bradstreet’s … Continued
Advocacy Group Accuses SBA of Misapplying Law on Small Business Set-Asides As it celebrates National Small Business Week, the Small Business Administration is facing renewed accusations that its efforts to reserve work for small contractors have been distorted by accounting … Continued
