Practical guides for federal subcontractors — no fluff, no generic advice.
The Defense Department spends over $400B per year and requires large prime contractors to subcontract to small businesses. Here's how to find the right primes, contact the right offices, and get in the door.
Read article →Federal prime contractors over $750K are required to set goals for small business subs — here's how to find those commitments and use them to get in the door.
Read article →How the government evaluates your track record, why subs struggle to build it, and what to do before it becomes a proposal problem.
Read article →A CAGE code isn't a certification — it's a 5-character identifier the government uses to track your company across every contract, past performance record, and SAM.gov search. Here's how to get one.
Read article →A step-by-step guide for small businesses on how to find prime contractors to team with for federal contracts — using SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and AI-powered BD research.
Read article →A practical explanation of federal teaming agreements — what they cover, when you need one, and the mistakes that kill deals before they start.
Read article →UEI, CAGE, NAICS, socioeconomic categories, PSC codes — what the fields actually mean when you're evaluating a potential teaming partner.
Read article →One page. Four sections. Most cap statements fail in the first fifteen seconds — here's what makes one actually get read.
Read article →541511 vs. 541512, when 518210 matters, the 541715 employee-count loophole, and how primes actually use NAICS codes to find subs.
Read article →How to read award data, what the numbers actually mean, and the API quirks that will skew your research if you don't know about them.
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