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Jim Kleckner
Government Contracting Assistance
2168 Spaulding Ave.
West Dundee, IL 60118
847-426-7003
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 10
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Jun 13, 2006
- Shop Management
- Article
Although the last step in the bidding process is to submit your bid, your final step in working with the government is never to give up and to apply what you learned throughout the process to every government job opportunity.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 7
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Jun 13, 2006
- Shop Management
- Article
Once you're ready to write your proposal, you must know all about the three basic types of solicitations and how to write your proposal based on what type of solicitation you're working with.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 9
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- May 9, 2006
- Shop Management
- Article
Once you have your contract and have delivered product on time and within specifications, it's time to find out how to get paid in a timely fashion.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 8
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Apr 11, 2006
- Shop Management
- Article
Now that you've written your proposal, it's time to submit it to the government. Before you send it off, make sure, one last time, that everything necessary in your bid proposal is there.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 6
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Feb 7, 2006
- Shop Management
- Article
When you price out your bid, you get to be the expert - but that also means a lot of responsibility. Learn what you need to know to price out your bid to the federal government.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 5
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Oct 11, 2005
- Shop Management
- Article
When you want to bid on a government contract, getting the technical data you need, including specifications and drawings, is critical.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 4
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Jun 1, 2005
- Shop Management
- Article
Before we address getting the bid package, read the following. If you believe that you can find one bid – that one special bid – and put all your eggs in that basket, consider this: "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've...
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 3
- By Jim Kleckner and John DiGiacomo
- Mar 1, 2005
- Shop Management
- Article
In Step 2 we discussed finding bid opportunities. Before we dive in, it's important to note that recent statistics show that in 2003 the federal government wrote 10.9 million contracts; 23 percent went to small businesses, meaning small businesses actually got $3 billion more work than they thought they would.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 2
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Feb 1, 2005
- Shop Management
- Article
So you're ready to go after the biggest customer in the world: the U.S. federal government. It's time to go to that "buyer" and "sell" your company and what it can do. But before you sell to anyone, first you need to realize whom you're dealing with. The federal government is not a single entity, but a collection of usually small buying activities that work separately to purchase or procure the items they are told to get.
- From The Fabricator
10 steps to winning a government contract - Step 1
- By John DiGiacomo and Jim Kleckner
- Oct 14, 2004
- Shop Management
- Article
Editor's Note: This is the first in a 10-part series intended to help fabricators develop a plan to obtain a government contract. This series is a follow-up to John DiGiacomo's article "Fact, fiction, and the feds: Dispelling myths about selling to the government." Several steps are necessary to...
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After Ludlow Manufacturing Inc. (LMI) received The Fabricator's 2024 Industry Award, Todd Ludlow, founder and president of the...
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