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February 2013                                                   Issue 1      

 

Greetings!

  

 You have the power to create your legacy. What shall you choose it to be? While we all may not be able to leave a million-dollar legacy, you can, right now, start building yours by:

Making eye contact during conversation

Listening without rushing in to state your point

Asking permission

Providing a genuine smile

Giving a heartfelt embrace

Practicing the alternate merge concept in traffic

Challenging your mind to come up with a better way

Respecting your colleagues

Mentoring your employees

Raising your children to be responsible

Paying your bills

Allowing joy in your life

Bringing joy and laughter to those around you

When tempted to point a finger, point at yourself first

Help those less fortunate to become self sufficient

Be open to new ideas from those who are different from you

Lead by example

 

This idea of legacy has intrigued me for much of my life. It is not just what is left when we are gone-it is also what IS, while we are here right now. Every day we add a brick to our own legacy wall-by our actions, thoughts and deeds we add new building bricks. Choose yours consciously and wisely.

 

God gave us the ability to experience profound joy and yes, heartbreaking sorrow as well. The joy you create for yourself and others today will give you the strength to get through the sorrow. Here's hoping for a good day for us all, one that adds to our combined legacy of which we can all be proud.

 

Here's to your success!

 

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Gloria Berthold Larkin
President, TargetGov
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Federal Market Identification Strategies and Tactics Class: Feb 28


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*Newsletter Special*

Register for one seat, get a second seat at no cost ---bring a colleague or friend!  

 

 

It is NOT business as usual in the federal market. Businesses that will win contracts in this new market are making the effort to adapt quickly, with expert guidance from  insiders. The second class of the Government Contracting Institute is quickly approaching, andt there are just a few seats left. This is what people are saying about the first class:

 

"This was a great experience and was very helpful in focusing me on gaps in my current business"

"The presenters did a good job and really understood their
areas of expertise and related it to my needs"

"Seminar provided information that truly mattered in today's climate!"

"This is a great resource, well worth the time"

"This course was extremely informative on federal legalities and positioning your company for growth and understanding the market"

"Excellent presentations, materaial and great follow-up discussion"
 

 

This next session is focused on the specifically on what has changed in the business of government contracting processes, identifying your target market, fine tuning the decision making strategies involved in being a prime contractor, a subcontractor, or a teaming partner, using the mentor-prot�g� programs to your benefit, evaluation of opportunities and defining win probabilities including Requests for Information, Requests for Quotes, Requests for Bids, Sole Source Contracts, the bid/no bid decision making process, purchase thresholds, simplified acquisitions and updated legal issues.

 

 

Date: February 28, 2013 from 830am to 400pm

Location: bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park, Baltimore, MD

Cost: $995, includes course materials and lunch

Instructors: Keir Bancroft, Tim O'Connor, Tamara Jack, A. Larry Staudmeister, and Gloria Larkin 

 

To take advantage of the newsletter two seats for one special, simply register yourself for the class and enter in your colleague's name and contact information in the comment section and we'll register them at no additional charge.

  

For more information and to register....  

 

WIPP Procurement - SBA Launches
RFP-EZ 
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The US Small Business Administration, in conjunction with the White House's Presidential Innovation Fellows, has launched the beta version of RFP-EZ, a streamlined process for small business to bid on federal contracts.

RFP-EZ was created by the Presidential Innovation Fellows to:
  • Make it easier for new small businesses to start contracting,
  • Simplify the development of statements of work,
  • Improve agency access to information about small businesses,
  • Enable small businesses to submit proposals electronically,
  • Help officers evaluate proposals more quickly,
  • Improve how information (including prices paid by federal agencies) is captured and stored.

To read more about this program, please click here: What is RFP-EZ?, or visit the RFP-EZ website. 
Participate in the Regulatory Process-from the House Committee on Small Business
 
It's probably no surprise to you that small businesses bear a regulatory cost that is 36% higher than the cost of regulatory compliance for large businesses.
 
Last week, the Committee launched a new online initiative to help small businesses directly participate in the development of federal regulations and improve the outcome. The web resource will highlight proposed regulations that will likely impact small companies and provide instructions on how you can submit comments to the federal agency considering the proposed regulation.  In addition, they'd love to hear from you on their online interactive website "Small Biz Open Mic." If you submit a comment to the Federal Registry, feel free to tell them about your opinion of the proposed regulations, and how it affects your company. 

 


GAO Report on VA Verification Process

The US Government Accountability Office released a report on the VA Verification process. Read how this will effect the Veteran business community. 

 

The full report is available here

There is No Work/Life Balance:
Just Living the Life You Love
Published by: MindBodyGreen

 

Work/Life: How many times have you driven yourself to tears by trying to make that awful phrase work? Have you ever run out of a meeting early determined to "have a life?" Or maybe you ruined a perfectly good evening because your thoughts were still at the office. Perhaps you called your friends at the last minute to pull out of a party because you were excited about your headway on a new project. Where was the balance in any of these, you may ask? It was there, just not in the way you might think.  

Read the rest of the article here...

 

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In This Issue
Federal Market Identification Strategies and Tactics
WIPP Announcement
Participate in the Regulatory Process
GAO report on VA Verification Process
There is No Work/Life Balance

 

What Are People Saying About the TargetGov Experience?

 

 

"...Thank you very much for taking the time to provide the very informative presentation ...  Your Toolkit provided the framework to ensure the highest possibility of success... I intend to check the targetgov.com site regularly for valuable information.
John Kim
SVCM, Inc.

 "Your presentation was one of the best I have attended.  I liked that is was to the point with specific action steps.  No down time during your talk"

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 "You were great!!!  So much buckshot began to come together as one silver bullet."

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"Great session yesterday - six people listening in on the call/webinar (a Sr VP/Proposal folks/Contracting Specialist/Editing/Pricing)  all were very impressed with the presentation..."  L. Jackson

  

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R. Alexander

  

Was impressed with the registration process. Getting the toolkit link was easy. Download was easy.  Dialing in was flawless. Very easy process.  Name withheld as requested

  

Registration was easy, conference was valuable.  I'll definitely attend other ones. 

M. Creager

  

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