How diversified is your contract portfolio?
If you’re like most new entrants into the federal marketplace, you established a GSA Schedule contract to serve as a primary contracting vehicle. As it remains an important contract vehicle for most contractors, many overlook the importance of having a diversified contract portfolio that includes federal, state and local agency opportunities.
To this end, please don’t miss next week’s webinar on the Navy’s SeaPort-e contract. Agency-specific contract vehicles like SeaPort-e are increasing in popularity and are becoming more important to contractors – especially small businesses.
Hope to see you on next week’s webinar!
Sincerely,
Kevin Lancaster
CEO, Winvale
The U.S. Navy’s SeaPort-e contract vehicles awards billions in task orders every year. If you are a vendor, or you are preparing a submission for the SeaPort-e Rolling Admissions for 2015, you’ll want to look towards the SeaPort-e vehicle.
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