10th Veteran's Conference
| When: September 15, 2010, 8:00am-4:00pm Where: King Center for the Performing Arts Rotunda 3865 N. Wickham Rd., Melbourne FL 32935 Cost: $60 individual registration, $110 for table display. For more information, visit event page or call Sandy Pfrimmer at 321-433-5570.
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Greetings from your Government Contracting Advisory Team (GCAT).
As our local economy is about to face more adjustments in light of the space program related reductions in workforce, it is even more critical Brevard small businesses take advantage of all grants and other assistance programs that are currently available.
Please take a moment to read through the outline below on some resources, grants, and programs your business could use. If your business qualifies for any of these, please take advantage of them!
Good luck and smooth sailing through the changing economy.
Sincerely,
Your GCAT
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Grants Available for Brevard Businesses
| | What Grants and Programs are Available to Brevard Businesses?
By Julie Song, Project Manager
Florida Manufacturing Partnership
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Did you know that as a small business you can receive assistance in the following areas for training of employees (new or incumbent)?
- LEAN: Manufacturing, Office, Healthcare, Government
- ISO9001:2008
- AS9100:2003C
- Kaizen - continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, supporting business processes, and management. The concept has been applied to healthcare, government, and other industries.
- VSM - Value Stream Mapping
The assistance is available through Florida Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Florida MEP). Florida MEP will offer you free consultation to review your training needs. Should you decide to use Florida MEP's resources, Florida MEP will work with you to write and submit a grant request to cover up to 75% of your training expenses.
Below is also a quick outline of some other local organizations that offer grants to Brevard's small businesses. Please make sure to take advantage of them.
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| Government Contracting: Proposal Writing | | Preparing the Proposal Management Plan (PMP)
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Proper planning and scheduling is extremely important for the success of any business endeavor. It is also critical for proposal development activities due to their highly concentrated level of activity that is applied over a constrained short period of time.
The key to proposal planning and scheduling is to prepare a Proposal Management Plan (PMP) for management approval prior to the initiation of the effort, which ensures the cost resources are well applied and increases the proposal team's performance effectiveness. Any proposal team-requested or management-directed changes to the PMP must also be approved by the same individuals that approved the original document.
Any well thought out plan includes the tried, tested, and proven management elements of planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling, and reporting. It should also include a statement of the requirements, an analysis of the requirements, and the detailed process steps that must be performed to ensure the requirements are met. A recommended outline for a typical PMP in summary format is shown in the figure below. Read the rest of the article>> |
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GCAT can help you with:
- Marketing & GSA Schedules (including GSA Contract Administration)
- Accounting services (including assistance with Government cost accounting systems, audit/reviews, and DCAA representation)
- Insurance needs (including Defense Base Act/Foreign Exposures)
- Legal services (such as Intellectual Property Strategies & Contract Negotiation)
- I.T. Services, including DelTek hosting
- Proposal Planning & Development
- International trade strategies and trade compliance solutions, including CTPAT & ITAR
- Quick access to industry veterans and resources
- And much more!
The GCAT Members include:
- Debbie Goode, CPA, Hoyman Dobson
- Lenita Wright, Huckleberry Sibley & Harvey Insurance
- Ed Kinberg, Kinberg & Associates, LLC
- Steve Thomas, Hayworth, Chaney & Thomas, P.A.
- Gary Beckert,GM Beckert & Associates
- D.Travis Proctor and Kevin Smith, Artemis International Technologies
- B. David Krigelman, Krigelman & Associates, Inc.
- Beth Gitlin, Global Passages, LLC
- Kathryn Toomey, OnPoint Solutions Group, Inc.
The individual companies participating in GCAT are not affiliated with each other for any purpose other than providing educational programs for issues related to government contracting. Participating companies do not share fees and, have no obligation to refer client's to companies participating in GCAT and do not assume any responsibility or liability for information provided by any member of GCAT. |
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