Responding to Federal Contracting Solicitations

Are you interested in increasing your chances of winning a federal contract? The U.S. government spends a lot of money, and for fiscal year 2017, according to USAspending.gov, the U.S. federal government committed $507 billion in contracts for goods, services, research, and development. That's approximately 13% of the total Fiscal Year 2017 federal budget of $3.98 trillion. During this same year, over sixty percent of federal contracts were competitively awarded. So, why is it that some businesses are awarded opportunities and others are not? Submitting a quality response to a solicitation or request for proposal is critical to winning a government contract. The Wyoming Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) has extensive experience in assisting small businesses prepare successful proposals and this webinar will provide attendees with valuable tools and information. Join this no-cost webinar to learn step-by-step how to decipher a solicitation or request-for-proposal and submit a quality response the first time.

Speaker(s): Rich Lyles is the Manager for the Procurement Technical Assistance Center in the Wyoming Small Business Development Center Network. Previously, he worked as a Government Contracts Advisor and as the Deputy Director of the Procurement Outreach Program in the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development for five years. Rich is a 1991 graduate of UNLV with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and received his MBA from UNLV in 1994. Beginning in college in 1990 Rich first worked in the public sector with the Bureau of Reclamation and after three years worked in the private sector as the CFO and the General Manager for two small government contractors. Brad mix is the Business Opportunity Specialists with the Small Business Administration (SBA) district office in Casper Wyoming.

For those that are unable to attend ‘live” at that time, the program will be recorded and registered attendees will receive a link to the recorded session.

Fee: No Cost