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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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