Contracting Officer Podcast 2.0 (samples)
By Kevin Jans, Paul Schauer, Contracting Officer, government Contracting, proposal management, proposal writing, targeting, contract administration, contract management, subcontracting
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THE podcast for those who want to learn about the government market from the contracting officer's perspective. Kevin Jans and Paul Schauer, both former federal contracting officers, explain the rules, processes and the "why" behind government contracts. They know because they've done it.
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513 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 1
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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512 - What is NAF Contracting? (Non-Appropriated Funds)
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May 29, 2025 |
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511 - The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul Overview
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May 23, 2025 |
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510 - What's a Protest Intervention? (w/ Maria Panichelli)
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May 16, 2025 |
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509 - What is a Commercial Solutions Opening?
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May 09, 2025 |
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508 - The 3 GovCon Forces
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May 02, 2025 |
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507 - Sunsetting Regulations
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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506 - How much of the sale is Process vs Relationship? Part 1 of 2
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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505 - What's changing (or not) in GovCon?
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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504 - The FAR is not the Play Book
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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503 - The VETS First Contracting Program
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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502 - Insuring Against Performance Risk in GovCon
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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501 - GovCon and Tariffs
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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500 - The Quincentenary (the 500th Episode)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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499 - Working with the FAR we have... w/Shelley Hall (10 Minute Sample)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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498 - What's an A-76 Competition? (10 Minute Sample)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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497 - GovCon Weight Class (Contractors) (10 Minute Sample)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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496 - The Other Costs of Proposals (10 Minute Sample)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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495 - Contingency Contracting Part 2 - Processes (10 Minute Sample)
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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494 - What is Profit? (10 Minutes Sample)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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493 - Using the F Word... "Fair" (10 Minute Sample)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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492 - What are Liquidated Damages? (10 Minute Sample)
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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491 - Cutting PALT by Finding Examples (w/Mike Weiland from Govly)
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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490 - What "IS NOT" a Good Faith Effort? (10 Minute Sample)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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489 - What "IS" a Good Faith Effort? (10 Minute Sample)
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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488 - Notification of Changes
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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487 - What's an Request for Equitable Adjustment (REA)? (w/ Angela Jacobs)
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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486 - Doing GovCon Market Research
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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484 - Brand Name or Equal - 10 minute Sample Content
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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485 - GovCon Vocab (Proposal vs Tender) - 10 minute sample episode
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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485 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 4 (Proposal vs Tender)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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484 - What is Brand Name or Equal? (w/ Steve Lucianetti)
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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483 - Fixed Price with EPA (Economic Price Adjustment)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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482 - Who is responsible for Contract Quality?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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481 - What goes in a Subcontracting Plan?
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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480 - What are BOS Contracts?
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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479 - What is a Cardinal Change?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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478 - Colors of Contract Changes
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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477 - GovCon Meets LinkedIn (w/Mark Amtower)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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476 - What is a Reverse Auction?
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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475 - What is Section H?
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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474 - Late Proposals
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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473 - Writing Requirements (w/Cesar Lopez)
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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472 - Ethos, Logos, Pathos (From Industry Side)
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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471 - What is a IGCE?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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470 - What are Data Rights? (w/Steve Lucianetti)
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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469 - What are Key Personnel?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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468 - Exemptions to the Service Contract Labor Standards Act - Part 2
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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467 - Exemptions to the Service Contract Labor Standards Act - Part 1
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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466 - Basis for Award
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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465 - Evaluation Criteria and Evaluation Factors
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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464 - What is a Determination and Finding?
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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463 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 3 (Consolidation vs Bundling)
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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462 - Place of Performance Under Service Contracts (w/Shelley Hall)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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461 - Ethos, Logos, Pathos (from Government side)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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460 - Buying "Commercial Services" in GovCon (with Desmond Culler)
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May 31, 2024 |
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459 - What is a Wage Determination?
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May 24, 2024 |
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458 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 2 (Shape vs Influence)
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May 17, 2024 |
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457 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 1 (Amend vs Modify)
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May 10, 2024 |
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456 - Differences between FED and State-Local w/Troy Francis (Part 2)
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May 03, 2024 |
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455 - What is Incremental Funding?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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454 - What is a Capture Manager? (w/Jennifer Namvar)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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453 - Ethos, Logos, Pathos
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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452 - Paths to Competition
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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451 - Acquisition Forms
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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450 - Types of Solicitations
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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449 - What is Severability?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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448 - What is Pre-Acquisition? (part 2)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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447 - Professional Compensation Plans with Joe Luetke
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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446 - What are "Open and Frank" Discussions? (Part 2)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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445 - What are "Open and Frank" Discussions? (Part 1)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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444 - How Does Pricing Affect the Contract? (w/ Heather Teed)
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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443 - What is Pre-Acquisition? (part 1)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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442 - What are Foreign Military Sales?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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441 - Why is this Inherently Governmental?
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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440 - Hiring From the Same Labor Pool
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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439 - Federal vs. State / Local Contracting (w/Tony Francis)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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438 - GovCon Conventions
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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437 - Finding Contract Awards w/Shelley
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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436 - What is Acquisition Planning?
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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435 - Sole Source Awards
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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434 - Agency Protest with Shelley Hall
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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433 - Contract Length
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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432 - Protestor Types
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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*Full Free Episode* 431- Contingency Contracting (Part 1)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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430 - Advisory Multi-Step Process
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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429 - Advisory Downselect with Trevor Wagner
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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428 - Thresholds
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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427 - Consent to Subcontract (Part 2 of 2)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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426 - Oral Proposals Part 2
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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425 – Small Business Dynamic Search Database w/ Shelley Hall
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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424 - Problem Solved
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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*Full Free Episode* 423 – What’s the Problem?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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422 - Oral Proposals
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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421 - Pre vs Post Award Protest
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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420 - What is OASIS+?
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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419 - What is SETA Support?
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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418 – SMBs in GovCon (or Not)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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417 - Notice of Intent to Bid
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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416- Unduly Restrictive Requirements w/ Shelley Hall
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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415 - Consent to Subcontract
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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414 - AI and GovCon
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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413 - What is PPQ?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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412 - What is PALT?
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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411 - What is HTRO?
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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410 - What is a Bridge Contract?
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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409 - Post-Award Pitfalls
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May 26, 2023 |
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*Full Free Episode* 408 - The Debt Ceiling and GovCon
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May 15, 2023 |
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407 - What is an IDIQ Off-Ramp?
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May 14, 2023 |
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406 - What is Best Value?
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May 08, 2023 |
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405 - The Written Debrief
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May 01, 2023 |
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New Episodes of The Contracting Officer Podcast
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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399 - The Three Doers
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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383 - The Process to Relationship Ratio (80-20 Rule Revisited)
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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331 - The GovCon Acquisition Cube
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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318 - Gas Gauge
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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272 - Flossing Your Contracts
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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221 - Path to Fair Opportunity Part 1
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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208 - What is LPTA?
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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118 The 3 Deciders
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Jan 29, 2017 |
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084 The Execution Time Zones
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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004 Why do RFPs take so long?
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Dec 08, 2014 |
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003 What are the Acquisition Time Zones?
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Nov 30, 2014 |
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001 Why We Created the CO Podcast
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Nov 23, 2014 |