Re: Government Contracting

["Rob @ Sirius" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

and the bid process is absurd...150 page RFPs...with just enough info to
make you crazy...well it will make you crazy.

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"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Aug 21, 12:26 pm, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Aug 20, 12:22 pm, "ABLE1" <royboynos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > "Bob La Londe" <onebike...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> > messagenews:j2ojmq$gue$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> > > I've done a few government jobs and sold a few parts to government
>> > > agencies over the years.  For some of the bigger ones they asked me
>> > > to get
>> > > on the government contractor list.  Except for the jobs I was asked
>> > > to get
>> > > on the list so I could bid I never got anything from being on the
>> > > government bid list.  What I did get was SPAMMED.  On the email
>> > > address I
>> > > used on my government information form I still received about 20
>> > > solicitations a day from companies wanting to sell me their services
>> > > to
>> > > help be a government contractor.  At one time I used to get close to
>> > > 100 a
>> > > day.  I also used to get 5-10 calls a day from these same types of
>> > > companies, although that is finally down to 1 or 2 a month.  I have
>> > > not
>> > > had an active listing in years.
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>> > > I have to be honest I am not sure why the list exists.
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>> > ???????????????  Job Creation  ???????????????
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>> >                                    :-)
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>> Getting on the approved GSA vendors list does not mean work just your
>> another resource and since so many are on it  trying to compete for
>> work you need a full time person just to pursue it. rewards can be
>> great if your willing to stick it out and put time into it but it
>> takes considerable effort. your better off doing small community work
>> like i do once or twice a year for small money  then you  do not need
>> to do competitive bidding etc .
>> I have done very well this way with little jobs because they know iam
>> available to handle small stuff.-
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> Absolutely correct.
> There are some companies who have the resources to finance the time it
> takes to be GSA approved. It's sort of a chicken and egg thing. If you
> are of a mind to work in the mire of paper work necessary to be
> approved, a company can make the up front effort to get into the
> system. Once you're in the system and being utilized, the rewards are
> usually pretty good, which allows you to invest more money into doing
> the paper works ..... and so on.
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> I've got one customer in particular who started out in the HVAC
> business and was having trouble even paying his alarm monitoring bill
> for a few years. He somehow got involved with removal of contaminents
> at construction sites. He's since become GSA approved and now has a
> multimillion dollar company that has crews that travel across the
> country doing decontamination of  buildings for federal, city and
> state governments. He did a few smaller local jobs at first but one
> big contract was enough to finance the setup of an office suite with
> lots of employees to do the paper work to bid for more of the bigger
> contracts.
> Sounds good and I'm sure it is good for him. Not something I'd be
> willing to get involved with. Now he sits at a desk and takes trips to
> negotiate or spec jobs.
>
> I like what I do because that's what I started my business wanting to
> do.Prior to that I wanted to be the executive type but after having to
> deal with the people who I had to deal with, I dicovered that I'm not
> a team player. I don't kow tow to people just because they have a
> better paying job than I do. I didn't learn it for awhile but I've
> since discovered that's one of the characteristics of a entrepreneur.
> I've been a suit and it's not anything that I ever want to do again.



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