Charlie Beauchamp, Author at Skyway Acquisition

Don’t Drop the Pre-Holiday RFP

by Charlie Beauchamp | Jun 30, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

As a contracting officer, I remember dropping RFPs on my way out the door for lots of holidays: 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and yes, gulp, even before the Christmas Holiday. In my defense, I was doing what made sense to me (wrap up the work before I leave)....

Contracting Officer Communication – What the FAR Now Allows

by Charlie Beauchamp | Jun 11, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

As a young contracting officer, it was drilled into my head that conversations with contractors were very dangerous. The reason was that any conversation with one contractor could lead to other contractors claiming that the CO was not maintaining a fair and...

What?! That’s in my contract?

by Charlie Beauchamp | May 19, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

“What?! That’s in my contract?” That is not a phrase any contractor wants to say. However, that’s exactly what a small business owner realized after I reviewed his contract a few weeks ago. I sometimes hear that phrase (often with expletives) when contractors reach...

Elevate your Results with Functional GovCon Fitness©

by Charlie Beauchamp | Apr 25, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

What is Functional Physical Fitness Functional Physical Fitness is the ability to safely perform daily physical activities. The idea is to have enough general fitness that we can do more and get injured less. Functional Physical Fitness also includes exercising with...

The FAR is a Rule Book, not a play book.

by Charlie Beauchamp | Apr 10, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

Every sport has a rule book. It’s hard to win if we don’t know the rules. The pro baseball rulebook is less than 200 pages. The pro football rulebook is less than 100 pages…and within both are an endless variety of potential plays. A fitting Sun Tzu quote comes to...

Don’t Drop the Pre-Holiday RFP

Contracting Officer Communication – What the FAR Now Allows

What?! That’s in my contract?

Elevate your Results with Functional GovCon Fitness©

The FAR is a Rule Book, not a play book.

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