FedBizOpps and Commerce Business Daily:
Check out the Government’s Business
Ever wonder how you can find out what business
our government is thinking of doing? Well check out the FedBizOpps
site. This informative website through FedBizOpps and Commerce
Business daily tells you what proposed government procurement
actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and various
procurement details for procurement offices around the country.
In October 2001, the Federal Procurement
Offices were required to use FedBizOpps to make their announcements
about proposed procurement actions and contract awards. However,
they only have to report them to FedBizOpps if the awards or
procurement actions are over $25,000 or if they are likely to be
awarded to any subcontractor. Commerce Business Daily was required
until 2002 to publish the notices, along with those reported to
FedBizOpps under $25,000 which allowed the public to adjust to the
change in procedure.
Another benefit of the FebBizOpps website is
the Alert Service. This service allows you to receive automatic
e-mails about any of your searches on FedBizOpps, and it gets set up
automatically once you subscribe. Every search on FedBizOpps is
customized to the subscriber. The FedBizOpps Alert Service allows
you to get daily e-mails that you can scan quickly and even offers a
personalized URL to create an archive of daily hits and look at full
announcements that interest you.
Once you have subscribed to FedBizOpps, you
also get other privileges like being able to search for procurement
offices around the United States. The COS portion of FedBizOpps
gives you access to COS funding opportunities like grants that
totals over $33 billion dollars. The COS portion of FedBizOpps also
has a Workbench area and an Abstract Management system for peer
review or program planning. This portion of the FedBizOpps site
also allows you to program in alerts that tell you when funding
opportunities are available and giving you a jump on the
competition.
For a small fee, FedBizOpps can keep you and
your business on top of news in the procurement offices around the
country. If you are interested in doing business with the
government in a contracting capacity, then FedBizOpps is a necessity
– not an option. With the Alert Service offered by FedBizOpps, you
can easily keep up with events, opportunities, and grants that can
lead to lucrative business. Signing up with FedBizOpps online is
easy and secure, and plans are based upon the size of your
business.
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