Skyway Contracting Officer, Author at Skyway Acquisition

Accounting for the Future

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Dec 5, 2016 | Bids & Proposals, Sales & Marketing

Small businesses often have simple accounting systems that meet their immediate needs but do not accommodate future proposal needs. For example, if you only perform as a services subcontractor and all your subcontracts are time & material or fixed price labor hour...

RFP Questions & Answers

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Nov 28, 2016 | Bids & Proposals

Most Requests for Proposal (RFPs) offer the opportunity for potential bidders to ask questions about the RFP. There is no obligation on the part of the government to answer and often when they do it is so close to the submittal deadline that it creates a scramble to...

Subcontractor “Flow Down” FAR Requirements

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Nov 21, 2016 | Bids & Proposals, Contract Administration, Skyway CO Insight

When prime contractors award subcontracts to other firms to complete portions of the required work, a primary consideration (after price, schedule and quality factors) is the type and number of FAR clauses that get “flowed down” from the prime to the subcontractor. ...

US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Contracting Activities

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Nov 18, 2016 | Skyway CO Insight

The US Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is the primary agency for major construction programs for the Department of Defense (DOD). And, by extension, they are also the Federal Government’s primary construction agency. Ranging from military bases to hydrologic...

Customer Experience – Too Little or Too Much?

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Oct 10, 2016 | Skyway CO Insight

One of the more challenging and frustrating aspects of being a government contracting officer (CO) is the fact that you have to support people, agencies and cultures that may have vastly different perspectives and experiences than you do. I refer specifically to the...

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