Picture this as your team of colleagues: On one hand, you have a promising 27 year old college graduate. They demand both recognition from their peers, as well as long-term challenges appropriate to their career development plan. They require a career plan that will keep a talented and eager young professional excited, accountable, and engaged in their daily responsibilities.

Federal, state, and local governments use GSA's eBuy system to find businesses that offer specific services and products at competitive prices. These federal buyers can request information and prepare RFQs/RFPs for services and products offered through GSA Schedule contracts. Businesses small and large use GSA eBuy to sell products and services to the government. According to GSA, more than $8.34 billion in products and services were processed through eBuy in 2012. Now the GSA is making a push to make eBuy more accessible to small businesses by taking eBuy mobile. According to a GSA representative, “you can learn how to do business with the federal government right from your cell phone” making the site more accessible to small businesses.

The General Services Administration (GSA) has recently begun two proposals to cut contracting costs for professional services. These two bids combine under a master contract vehicle calledOne Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS). One of the plans under OASIS will administer contracts to large businesses, while the other will serve smaller businesses.

A well-designed leadership development program is essential to identifying, attracting, filling, and retaining employee leadership. By using a consistent talent management program at all levels across the organization, future leaders are developed fruitfully. Leadership programs truly shape the success of business processes like hiring strategies, employee development, and career succession planning. Did you know that only 25% of those hired for executive director and other executive functions will stay in their jobs more than five years?

Making sure your employees are trained and up to date on the latest IT developments is a crucial part of ensuring your agency runs at maximum efficiency. With the constant development of new technologies, it can be hard to stay up to date. In addition, educating your employees on the latest technology can be complicated and expensive, leaving underfunded managers with no room to budget proper training for their employees. How can your agency educate employees without burning a hole in your budget?

On August 27th, 2013 a new rule will go into effect that states that any contract given to a small business that has misrepresented their size status will suffer a “presumption of loss” of the full amount of that contract. This rule comes in the wake of a report by NASA auditors which found that approximately one third of the woman owned small businesses that were awarded NASA contracts misrepresented their socioeconomic and small business certifications, and were not in-fact woman owned small businesses. With an increase in scrutiny and fiscal consequences, it is important to be fully transparent when representing the size and socioeconomic status of your business.