Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes

April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in detail the type of content that goes into compliant,Read… Read more »

Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time

In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing processRead… Read more »

Good morning – here are my political law links for today

SWIPE FEES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hill reports. “Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) has reaped a windfall in contributions from banks and lobbyists since introducing legislation to delay new regulations on debit-card swipe fees.” LIMIT ON ANONYMOUS DONATIONS? Politico reports. “The Obama administration is considering a number of measures to compel disclosure of the kind of anonymousRead… Read more »

INPUT’s Raleigh State & Local Executive Breakfast Recap: Will North Carolina Privatize State IT?

Senior Analyst Chris Cotner recaps last week’s state and local executive breakfast in Raleigh, North Carolina. For those in attendance at INPUT’s North Carolina State and Local Executive Breakfast in Raleigh on April 15, 2011, future IT business prospects with state and local governments are certainly improved after the presentations from the CIOs in theRead… Read more »

Virginia to invest $4 billion in transporation infrastructure

Under the terms of a sweeping legislative package signed into law yesterday, Virginia will spend nearly $4 billion on transportation infrastructure over the next three years. The money is expected to fund more than 900 projects statewide without raising taxes. Projects are will range from road and bridge improvements to increased rail and transit services.Read… Read more »

Qwiki: New Way to Learn Contract Law

Well, I’m enough of a nerd to be excited about this. I knew Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive section on contract law. While you could read all the articles, a fast way to get summaries of it is using Qwiki, which reads aloud Wikipedia articles. The contract law section that Qwiki draws from isn’t perfect,Read… Read more »

Experts: If It’s on FedBizOpps, It’s Too Late

If the first hint you have of an upcoming contract award is its listing on FedBizOpps, you’re behind, according to the panel of government contracting experts at the latest GovWin Virtual Roundtable, “Win or Go Home: How to Thrive in the Budget-Crunched, Extra-Competitive Government Contracting Environment.” [Read the rest of my article at GovWin.com.] FiledRead… Read more »

Legalizing bribery, plea in Carib News case, cooling off periods, and more in political law links of the day

SETH GODIN ON TRANSPARENCY. Here (where he also discusses legalizing bribery). GUILTY PLEA IN CARIBBEAN TRIP CASE. Roll Call reports. ”The New York newspaper publisher who organized an annual Caribbean conference attended by some members of the Congressional Black Caucus pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to Congress about how the 2007 trip was financed.” TheRead… Read more »

Report reminder, a new NC blog, how to announce for president, and new political law links

Q1 LDA REPORT REMINDER. Courtesy of the Office of the Clerk here. “The first quarter report is due Wednesday, April 20, 2011, covering January 1, 2011 through March 31, 2011.” “GOVERNMENT ETHICS LAW IN NORTH CAROLINA” BLOG. Are you dealing with North Carolina issues or just interested in a new perspective on ethics laws? CheckRead… Read more »

CTOlabs.com Survey Finds Data Deduplication Aids in Managing Data Growth in Federal Agencies

Crucial Point LLC subsidiary CTOlabs.com has just published the results of a study on the impact of data growth in government. To download your copy see: http://www.carahsoft.com/dedupesurvey From the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5243224.htm Data Growth and Virtualization Mandate New Approach to Federal Storage Management Survey Finds Data Deduplication Aids in Managing Data Growth in Federal AgenciesRead… Read more »

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