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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...

The Thinking Part of the (Job)

by Charlie Beauchamp | Mar 26, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

I enjoy government contracting. The point of a government contract is to meet the mission of the agency through leveraging the resources from the private sector. Contracts do not exist to exist. They exist to meet a mission. To get a job done. Therefore, to get the...

GovCon and Tariffs

by Charlie Beauchamp | Mar 24, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

Tariffs are a tax on goods that enter the country. They are not new. In 1913, the Underwood Tariff Act essentially moved us from using tariffs to raise taxes and instead use federal income tax. This lowered tariffs from 40% to 25%. Currently, federal revenue...

Get Curious before you get Furious (Don’t Curse the Darkness Part IV)

by Charlie Beauchamp | Feb 21, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

This is the next installment of this post: Navigating the Fog of GovCon Ok, confession time. I got sucked into the flow of the river of news yesterday and ending up following one yet another “possible” change in GovCon. I felt like a cat following the laser...

The Reverse Lens (Don’t Curse the Darkness Part III)

by Kevin Jans | Feb 12, 2025 | Contracting Officer Insight

This is the next installment of this post: Navigating the Fog of GovCon GovCon, and government in general, are moving faster lately. It can be hard to clearly communicate our intent when we are moving fast. With all that movement, it’s harder to take the time to...

Elevate your Results with Functional GovCon Fitness©

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

The Thinking Part of the (Job)

GovCon and Tariffs

Get Curious before you get Furious (Don’t Curse the Darkness Part IV)

The Reverse Lens (Don’t Curse the Darkness Part III)

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