While the federal government remains the world’s fortune one customer, spending over $500 billion purchasing services and products every single year, the market is constantly changing and confounding large and small businesses alike. As one takes stock of the successes and failures in reaching last year’s sales goals and planning for growth in 2020, it... Read More
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CPARS and How They Impact Your Bid
“The greatest predictor of the future is the past.” While the original source of this pithy observation is unknown, it remains true, most especially in government contracting. A company’s past performance rating may be the single greatest determining factor in the next bid’s win or loss. The Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) is one of the most critical, and... Read More
CPARS.gov Now Official Source for Past Performance Information
The U.S. federal government has completed the merger of the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) with the Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS.gov). CPARS now serves as the federal report card system for prime contractors providing services and products to the U.S. federal government. Government decision-makers now use CPARS to review contractors’ performance under... Read More
GSA Awards $43M Contract to Replace DUNS with SAMMI
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced the award of a $41.8 million-dollar five-year contract to Ernst and Young LLP (EY) that will replace the decades-long contract held by Dun & Bradstreet to provide entity validation services, currently known as the Data Universal Number System (DUNS®.) This move will affect every federal agency and... Read More