11 AM | EST - Dr. Rafael Marrero

The federal government regularly utilizes a process known as "sources sought" to gather information from potential suppliers before formally soliciting bids or proposals for a contract. This preliminary step allows agencies to identify businesses capable of fulfilling their requirements and determine the availability of small businesses, minority-owned enterprises, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, and HUBZone businesses.

1 PM | EST - Dave Lowe

The Federal Procurement Data System is the master repository of federal contract activity and contains millions of contract actions that NEVER hit SAM.gov. Through the FPDS, you can gain up-to-date contract activity in your market so that you mine FPDS.gov to: - Identify hidden agency contract activity - Research competitors - Find buyers in your space - Track contract spending - Position your company for future hidden contracts

11 AM | EST - Greg Pollock , Karen Peltz Strauss & Ryan Bonheyo

This briefing will provide a platform for discussion of current and future technology – primarily DVC - that can facilitate an equitable and improved customer experience for deaf individuals.

1 PM | EST - Todd Crane

Secret and Top-Secret contracts happen every day and Solicitations with DoD/NSA/CIA and other classified requirements provide significant challenges for companies - even when they have TS/SCI level clearance. Bidders may have access to the top level solicitation, but often do not even know that there are additional documents associated with solicitations - including supporting documents that have details that are critical to your technical and pricing proposal.

1 PM | EST - Patrick Tarrant

This briefing will address the importance of eliminating multiple points of failure, especially human, by implementing best practices for specification of self-centering shackle technology. These best practices will help safety engineers, equipment operators and workers mitigate significant safety concerns resulting from misuse of shackles, lack of cable symmetry while meeting OSHA rigging standards put forth in ASME B30.26 and federal standards outlined in RR-C-271H. In addition, this session will address current and future BAA/TAA compliance requirements for procurement on CONUS and OCONUS US federal projects.