Month: July 2021

Dynamic Construction Group LLC Awarded $45M for Emergency temporary roof repairs

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Dynamic Construction Group LLC, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was awarded a $45,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for emergency temporary roof repairs. Bids were solicited via the internet with nine received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2028. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha, Nebraska, is the contracting activity (W9128F-21-D-0053).

Dynamic Construction Group, LLC is located in Baton Rouge, LA, United States, and is part of the Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction Industry. Dynamic Construction Group, LLC has 11 total employees across all of its locations and generates $120,272 in sales (USD). (www.dnb.com) 

Vicky Mangano: Italy-based Consultant Helping International Companies Do Business with the US!

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Vicky Mangano shares how she learned about the US procurement and how she helps international companies win contracts as an Italy-based Consultant!

BACKGROUND

Vicky Mangano is a consultant based in Italy through her company Mangano International Development. 

She helps international clients in Europe in terms of doing business with the United States government in Italy.

This includes registering their company to translating English contracts to Italian, among others. 

WORKING AS A CONSULTANT IN ITALY

Mangano started working in a construction company that was doing business with the U.S. government. That’s when she got interested in how the US federal procurement works. 

She then continued in getting more qualifications as an expert in the construction industry while also learning about US federal procurement through research. 

After that, she then decided to become a consultant and started researching about what the U.S. government needs near Sicily.

“This is very important to note that… we cannot be improvised overnight. This is hard work… That’s why, if you use the full, to surround ourselves with people… who give us important lessons.”

With this, she looked for Italian-based or any Europe-based companies that are actually ready to work with the U.S. government.

At the first appointment, she usually analyzes if the company is ready and eligible to bid. If not, she provides more information on how the procurement process works.

Then, if they agreed, she helps in making sure that they get the right codes and documents needed in registering as an international company to the U.S. procurement database. 

After that, she then helps in analyzing their market and their target clients while also looking for possible opportunities.

She even translates some of the English solicitations to Italian just to make sure that her clients understand what that specific agency needs and they’ll be able to provide it. 

ADVICE FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES

1. Research everything about the marketplace. 

When Vicky got interested in doing business with the US government, she also found that there’s not much support about this matter in Sicily, Italy. 

So, she researched further and that’s when she bumped into our GovCon Giant videos on YouTube. 

“We needed to have armored open knowledge… That’s very important because you can’t tell anything to the government in terms of good in service, if you don’t know what the federal agency needs and where. You can’t organize anything. You need to know how the government has organized it.”

2. Find the nearest US client. 

While researching how US federal procurement works, you also need to find the nearest US military installation or any US clients near you and see what you can offer to them. 

Remember, the United States has operations across the globe and it’s impossible that you can’t find one in your region. 

For instance, Vicky used EuroNECO to look for RFQs. She also uses this platform to build her customer profile and learn what their clients need. 

“Find opportunity, provide something, and how to deliver it… And when you have completed these pictures, we can create our customer portfolio and start to do business internationally. that’s what I did and what I’m doing.”

3. Get registered as an international company.

To start working with any US government agencies in your region, you need to register first as an international company. 

However, because you’re an international company, consider that the US government asks different requirements and the process may differ from the normal registration process in US-based companies. 

With this, you can check this video that we have on how to register if you are a foreign company. 

RESOURCES

If you want to learn more on how Vicky Mangano learned about the US procurement and how she helps international companies win contracts as a consultant based in Italy, then check the resources below.

You can also visit the GovCon Giant website or the new GovCon Edu where you learn everything about government contracting!

She does business in 🇮🇹 ITALY 🇮🇹 for the U.S!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUPG26Cbhs

https://govcongiants1.wpengine.com/podcast/2019/09/02/019-2/

SOURCES SOUGHT: Drayage-Germany

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The purpose of this acquisition is to provide local drayage distribution services for Government-owned furniture and domestic appliances. Drayage distribution services include installation and removal of domestic appliances for the Army in Europe Army Family Housing (AFH) and Unaccompanied Personnel Housing (UPH). Drayage-Germany distribution services also include warehouse augmentation in Government warehouses necessary to receive, clean, inventory, and prepare Government-owned furniture and domestic appliances for re-issue. 

  • Original Set Aside:
  • Product Service Code: V112 – TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL/RELOCATION- TRANSPORTATION: MOTOR FREIGHT
  • NAICS Code: 484110 – General Freight Trucking, Local
  • Place of Performance: DEU
  • Updated Response Date: Jul 28, 2021 04:00 pm CEST
  • Original Response Date: Jul 28, 2021 04:00 pm CEST

Aechelon Technology Awarded $24.0M for Image Generation Systems

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Aechelon Technology, Inc. San Francisco, California, has been awarded a $24,069,170, firm-fixed-price, C-type option contract for Image Generation Systems. Image Generators are required to support high fidelity F-35 and F-22 JSE Flight Simulation Visual Display Systems in Joint Simulation Environment. Work will be performed at Edwards Air Force Base and Nellis AFB and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2023, if the option is exercised. This award is the result of a non-competitive, sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $20,252,904 are being obligated at the time of the award. The Air Force Training Center, Edwards AFB, is the contracting activity (FA9302-21-C-0011). (Awarded June 18, 2021)

Aechelon Technology, Inc. is located in San Francisco, CA, United States, and is part of the Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing Industry. Aechelon Technology, Inc. has 150 total employees across all of its locations and generates $26.82 million in sales (USD). (www.dnb.com)

SOURCES SOUGHT: Biometrics at Sea System

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BASS is the primary biometrics at sea collections system for the Coast Guard’s Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations (AMIO) and Enforcement of Laws and Treaties (ELT) providing mobile biometrics collection and analysis capability to operators in the maritime environment and remote areas where the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operates. BASS aids in identifying individuals interdicted at sea and provides decision makers with information to assist in the determination of courses of action in USCG law enforcement interdictions; (e.g. repatriate, arrest, refer for prosecution, etc.), by providing additional identifying information of interdicted persons not available without BASS collection and analysis. Additionally, the capability deters human smuggling networks by improving enforcement of U.S. Immigration Laws and identifying potential terrorist using typical AMIO routes. 

  • Original Set Aside:
  • Product Service Code: DE11 – IT AND TELECOM – MOBILE DEVICE AS A SERVICE
  • NAICS Code: 334118 – Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
  • Place of Performance: Chesapeake , VA 23326, USA

Full details via beta.sam.gov

Advanced Technology Construction Corp. Awarded $240.0M for projects located primarily within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Northwest area of responsibility (AOR)

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Advanced Technology Construction Corp.,* Olympia, Washington (N44255-21-D-2000); Environet Inc.,* Kamuela, Hawaii (N44255-21-D-2001); I. E. Pacific Inc.,* Escondido, California (N44255-21-D-2002); Sea Pac Engineering Inc.,* Los Angeles, California (N44255-21-D-2003); Shape Construction Inc.,* Poulsbo, Washington (N44255-21-D-2004); and Veterans NW Construction,* Seattle, Washington (N44255-21-D-2005), are each awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award construction contract for projects located primarily within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Northwest area of responsibility (AOR). The maximum dollar value including the base period and four option periods for all six contracts combined is $240,000,000.

Advanced Technology Construction Corporation is located in Tacoma, WA, United States and is part of the Nonresidential Building Construction Industry. Advanced Technology Construction Corporation has 26 total employees across all of its locations and generates $25.00 million in sales (USD). (Sales figure is estimated). There are 2 companies in the Advanced Technology Construction Corporation corporate family. (www.dnb.com)

SOURCES SOUGHT: Fort Benning Battalion Headquarters Construction

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The Savannah District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is requesting information regarding the market capabilities of potential contractors that can perform construction of Fort Benning Battalion Headquarters, at Fort Benning, Georgia. This request does not obligate the Government in any way to post a Request for Proposal or award a contract. Information received will be considered for the purpose of market research and determining how to best move forward with the procurement. Applicable NAICS code is 236220 with a size standard of $39.5 Million. Inquiries will only be accepted via email to Contract Specialist, Mr. Lennie K. Mattis at [email protected] or Contracting Officer, Ms. Magdalena Bernard at [email protected] . The request for Information sheet should be completed and submitted no later than 23 July 2021 at 3:00 pm. Eastern. 

  • Original Set Aside:
  • Product Service Code: Y1AZ – CONSTRUCTION OF OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITIES AND SERVICE BUILDINGS
  • NAICS Code: 236220 – Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
  • Place of Performance: Fort Benning , GA 31905, USA

Full details via beta.sam.gov

097: Elizabeth Jimenez – Why small businesses should consider managed service provider when scaling their business

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This week we bring you another managed service provider, Elizabeth Jimenez of NeoSystems. Neosystems is a full service IT integrator, managed security, cloud managed hosting, and managed services accounting, HR and IT.

Elizabeth Jimenez is the Executive Director, Strategic Development for NeoSystems, she is responsible for building and managing strategic relationships with partners, government agencies, industry influencers, and clients, as well as driving NeoSystems’ brand vision, value, and culture.

She is also co-founder of The Cyber Guild, a non-profit, which is focused on transforming cyber groups into a cohesive human-centric organizational fabric, and the Executive Director and Advisory Chair of the Uniting Women in Cyber, an annual conference dedicated to celebrating women in cybersecurity, where she is instrumental in the organization’s annual conference. She has a bachelor of arts degree from Radford University and is a registered practitioner of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program from the Department of Defense.

In this episode, Elizabeth will explain the concept in full detail of why small businesses should consider MSP as a viable option when scaling their business. Listen to our next Giant, Elizabeth Jimenez.

Mastermind Monday: Stop Not Getting Paid in Construction

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Not getting paid in construction? Learn how to secure your rights with Ariela Wagner!

BACKGROUND

Ariela C. Wagner is the President of SunRay Construction Solutions, a documents service company helping suppliers and subcontractors throughout the United States to secure lien rights. 

“It’s okay to make mistakes and to fall down, but it’s not okay to not get back up.”

NOTICE TO OWNER, LIEN, AND BOND CLAIM REFRESHER

Before everything else, sending these notices is really important because this is a way to protect yourself into getting paid. 

Aside from that, it’s a professional thing to do because it lets your customer know that you are serious about getting paid on your terms and not their terms. 

However, consider that the period of time before the deadline of these notices and the names might be different depending on your state or locality, so, check those first. 

Notice to Owner

A notice to owner (NTO) secures your lien and or bond claim rights and must be sent within a specified period of time.

For instance, if you are providing furnishing services in the state of Florida, you only have 40 days to send your NTO.

The best business practice that you should do is to send your NTO as soon as possible. 

Claim of Lien

Claim of lien is a legal claim that you can do on private property. 

In the state of Florida, if you are not paid, you have 90 days to lien a private project that needs to record one.

Also, as long as you have sent your required preliminary notices,  then you can record your lien.

With this in mind, you cannot lien any public projects in the country due to what’s the government called sovereign immunity which means they’re immune to civil suits and you can’t take away their property. 

Consider that in order for you to secure your lien rights, you must send the NTO, as soon as you start the project; then, the claim of lien 90 days from the last day of your project. 

Claim on Bonds

Claims on Bonds, or what Tennessee called a notice of non-payment, is a claim that you can use to get paid by the prime when working with public projects.

This is just a reverse one for the lien which is for the equity interest in the property you’re foreclosing.

What’s a good example for this is working in a VA hospital. You only have 90 days, in the state of Florida, to send this claim from the last day you’re on the project.

If you do not have a direct contract with the general contractor, you should be sending NTO or notice to contractor on public projects.

Consider that in order for you to have bond claim rights, you must send this NTO as soon as you start the project. Then, the claim on bond is 90 days from the last day of your project. 

ADVICE FROM ARIELA WAGNER

1. You can’t ever take back your actions.

The biggest mistake you will never be able to take back  is your negative words and actions to a loved one when you’re stressed. 

You really want to be very cautious when you’re stressed out. Put yourself in a room, if you have to shut the door.

You just need to calm down because it’s just in a millisecond. Don’t be in a rush to say something or make a decision because a mistake can happen in millisecond, and you don’t want that to happen. 

“I can tell you that you’re going to make mistakes, but like I said in the very beginning, ‘You fall seven times, you get up eight.’ But you can’t take back with your loved ones, with your employees, with people who you’ve never met before. You can never take back your words or your actions.”

2. Ask others’ opinions.

You’re going to make mistakes in business, but certainly put together an intelligent plan. 

If you don’t know what you’re doing and you don’t know the answers to something, don’t make the decision on your own. Ask intelligent people to help you. 

“If you ask an idiot their opinion, you’re gonna get an idiot’s response. If you ask an intelligent person their opinion, you’re going to get an intelligent response.”

RESOURCES

If you want to learn more about getting paid in construction by securing your rights, then check our full video with Ariela Wagner.

You can also visit the GovCon Giant website or the new GovCon Edu where you learn everything about government contracting!

Stop Not getting paid in construction??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLSw92tWZg&t=4345s

Weatherhaven Resources Inc. Awarded $200.0M Contract For indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract

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Weatherhaven Resources Inc.,* Blaine, Washington, has been awarded a maximum $200,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under solicitation SPE1C1-18-R-0003 for commercial shelters. This was a competitive acquisition with 15 responses received. This is a one-year base contract with three one-year option periods. Location of performance is Washington, with a June 17, 2022, ordering period end date. Using military services are Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2021 through 2022 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency, Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE1C1-21-D-1475).

Weatherhaven Resources, Inc. is located in Blaine, WA, United States and is part of the Nonresidential Building Construction Industry. It. has 3 total employees across all of its locations and generates $407,765 in sales (USD). (www.dnb.com)