This briefing will provide insider insight and discuss key discriminators and best practices that industry must demonstrate to compete and win contracts for integration of responsible AI into the DoD ecosystem. This is important because as AI continues to expand exponentially in the US and abroad, a fundamental tenet for DoD is to implement a responsible AI strategy that enables DoD to adopt the power of AI at speed and scale, while recognizing that other governments will not follow the same “rule set” as the US and its allies.

SAM.gov - or the System for Award Management (SAM) - is the official website by the US government designed to play part in the following vendor processes: - Registration - Qualification - Verification - Awards - Government systems.

Creating and submitting an unsolicited proposal to a federal agency can effectively position your company to contract directly with federal decision makers without a formal solicitation or request for proposal (RFP). The best part of the process for businesses is that the result is a direct contract award with ZERO competitors because you are the one who developed the SOW requirements. The unsolicited proposal process can be used for products, services, innovative technology or a better way for agencies to meet their missions - all based on your expertise and ability to help meet an agency need.

This 2 hour session session will provide a comprehensive review of expiring contracts as well as inside insight from TWO former directors of contracting from HHS responsible for $1.5 billion in annual contracts. Additional insight on contract pursuit, marketing strategies and tactics to help you engage with HHS contracting officers provided in the included report.

The government allows under FAR Part 6.3 for “contracting without providing for full and open competition” and provides authority to the contracting officer to award a sole source contract! This means your company may be able to use a J&A to effectively eliminate the competition for products, patented processes, construction, innovative technology, real estate leasing, BAA compliance, and more. Contracting officers can use J&A for up to $750,000 (simplified acquisition) and up to $75 Million with GS-15 or $100 Million with Senior Procurement Executive (ASAALT) approval.

With insight provided by this USAspending.gov briefing, you will see how federal spending works from top level agency spending right down through locations, prime vendors, sub-contractors and into the contract details. This briefing will also provide insight on how successful contractors use this information and how you can incorporate it into your federal sales strategy. If you are new to the federal market, this briefing will provide insight on how you can use USAspending.gov to find sub-contracting opportunities that never show up on SAM.gov.

This briefing will focus on data EPA and FDA briefing is scheduled for 45-minutes and will include a product overview of how the iAdvantage eStudy platform is utilized to manage EPA and FDA data collection and integrity. eStudy is in use by organizations reporting data to EPA and its use assists scientists, program management, and leadership who require clean, verifiable data collection. This helps address agency challenges with R&D data integrity and provide best practices for effective design protocols to ensure data quality that minimizes data cleansing delays and costs while maintaining strict EPA regulatory compliance and 100% data integrity requirements.

DLA is one of the most active federal agencies with over 3.5 million contract awards annually totaling $39.8 Billion* in FY2022. Marketing to DLA does have its challenges, most of which can be solved by knowing how the DLA operates.