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Federal evaluators score your proposal against published criteria without ever meeting you. Your words on the page are the entire game. Here is the complete…
The federal fiscal year ends September 30 — and agencies are racing to spend remaining FY2026 dollars right now. Q4 is the single best opportunity…
Thousands of new federal contractors pay hundreds — sometimes thousands — of dollars to “renew” their SAM.gov registration to third-party scammers. The registration is free…
Today, Don Acquisition LLC filed a complaint at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims arguing the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul’s sweeping changes are unlawful because they…
Iran struck an oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, sending Brent crude back above $76 and erasing much of June’s inflation…
LOGZONE paid $507,144 for inflating its NIST 800-171 self-assessment. A manager at a Virginia cloud contractor now faces 20 years in prison for hiding failed…
In April 2026, DOJ stood up the National Fraud Enforcement Division — its first unified fraud-prosecution unit dedicated to protecting taxpayer dollars. For federal contractors…
A $10 billion defense industrial investment wave, 30+ expansion announcements, and multiyear munitions buys worth $12.6 billion — the defense production surge is real, and…
June CPI fell 0.4% — the biggest monthly decline since April 2020 — dropping annual inflation to 3.5%. But with energy still up double digits…
SAM, UEI, NAICS, RFP, IDIQ, 8(a) — federal contracting runs on alphabet soup. Here are the 40 government contracting acronyms every new contractor needs, organized…
NAICS codes are the six-digit numbers that determine which federal opportunities match your business, whether you count as ‘small,’ and which set-aside competitions you can…
A $21.3 million settlement, a $240 million rent-a-vet conviction, and whistleblowers walking away with millions — inside the SDVOSB fraud crackdown of 2026, what the…
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