Know what federal agencies will build next.
Forecasts, solicitations and grants from every agency, read for what fits your work.
McNary Lock and Dam, Columbia River. CC BY 2.0, Bonneville Power Administration.
A solicitation is two hundred pages and a deadline.
Federal work is posted in one place and explained in many: the notice, the attachments, the forecast that came before it, the grant that pays for it downstream. The requirement that rules you out is usually on page ninety.
Reading them all takes a team most firms do not have.
One notice, read for you.
What it asks for, whether it fits, and the page that says so.
Lock and dam electrical rehabilitation
Army Corps of Engineers district, sources sought.
- Stage
- Sources sought, solicitation planned for the spring
- Scope
- Electrical and controls rehabilitation at two locks, attachment B
- Set-aside
- Small business, NAICS 237990
- Requirements
- Bonding and past performance on similar federal work
- Timing
- Award expected in the fourth quarter
Worth a capability response before the solicitation.
See it in the forecast.
Agency procurement forecasts, sources sought and pre-solicitation notices, read for the work you do, months before the solicitation.
- Agency forecasts and sources sought
- Set-asides and NAICS codes
- Kept current as it moves
Know what a solicitation asks for.
Every notice and attachment read in full: scope, set-aside, bonding, past performance, Buy American and Davis-Bacon terms, and the deadline, each with the page it came from.
- Scope and attachments
- Set-asides and requirements
- Every answer cites its page
Follow federal money to local work.
Grants and loans from EPA, DOT and other agencies pay for much of the local wastewater and transportation work. Capveon follows each award to the project it pays for, and the bid it becomes.
- Grants.gov and USAspending
- State programs funded by federal money
- The local bid it becomes
Questions about federal work
- Which federal sources do you read?
- SAM.gov, agency forecasts, USAspending, Grants.gov and the Federal Register, plus the state programs federal money flows through.
- Which agencies?
- Civil works, military construction, transportation, energy, land and water agencies, among them the Army Corps of Engineers, the Navy and Air Force facilities commands, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Federal Highway Administration.
- Does it read the attachments?
- Yes. The notice and every attachment, so the requirement on page ninety is found on day one.
- What happens on the demo?
- Bring a few notices or agencies you are working. We go through what each one asks for and whether it fits.
Bring the work you’re looking at.
Thirty minutes on your own projects. We go through what each one is, whether it’s yours, and what to do next.