Winning Federal Business the Open Source way showcases the open source tools that the General Service Administration's new 18F group has been developing. These tools help you find great new business opportunities with the United States government, navigate the paperwork requirements and monitor proposal submissions. In the slides we show very early previews of our tools which are free, open source and permissively licensed.
Presentation breakdown:
15 minutes presentation
5 minutes Q&A
Slides by Dave Caraway (david.caraway@gsa.gov)
Business opportunities come on many different sites in many different formats
FedBizOps for alot of larger federal contracts
SBIR and STTR programs have varying sites
Sites that exist are confusing
Finding work, even when it’s posted, takes time. Businesses have to staff up to pursue these opportunities
Logos from fbo.gov, dodsbir.com, DIBBS and sbir.gov
Companies need to belong to many different registries and systems
Deciphering cryptic postings is tough and error-prone
Size standards, set asides, codes, the FAR, who to contact, ...
Image on left from http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/06/10/2bkk/img/28a.jpg
Image on right from http://www.ite.org/meetings/2009TransOps/TO-ITE-508/TO13/TO13-3.jpg
18F builds software for/with/by agencies and advises them on industry best practices. Our team comes from industry and other government agencies, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear.
FBOpen does the tedious work for you. We regularly traverse federal procurement sites, extracting the opportunities and putting them all in one place in simple format that’s easy to consume with web and mobile applications.
https://fbopen.gsa.gov/
FBOpen Widget lets you easily embed functionality into your website. Show the SBHub site.
http://18f.github.io/fbopen-widget/
SBHub is a custom site powered by FBOpen API
http://sbhub.wbi-icc.com/
Service to discover and apply to Small Business Innovation Research opportunities.
Wire frames available at http://sbir-ez-airplane.webflow.com/
Early access endpoint at http://192.168.33.10:9000/api/q?year=2012