SmallGovCon Week in Review: February 10-14, 2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! Well, our KC Chiefs just couldn’t pull off that third Super Bowl win but it sure was a fun football season, all the same. Looking forward to what might be in store for next season. Now we can start leaning into March Madness, which will be just around the corner! Hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day and enjoy the weekend.

Now here’s what’s happening in federal government contracting, including stories about agency restructuring, impacts on federal personnel, and strategies for contractors.

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Webinar Event! February 26, 2025, The SBA Mentor Protege Program in Collaboration with Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC, 10:30-12:30pm EST

Touted as a “game-changer” when it was first introduced in 2016, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s All Small Mentor-Protege Program isn’t new anymore. Known now as simply the “SBA Mentor-Protege Program, it is still extremely powerful for large and small contractors alike. In this webinar, seasoned government contracts attorneys, Shane McCall & Gregory Weber from Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC, will explain the ins and out of the SBA Mentor-Protege Program, covering the program’s eligibility requirements, its potent benefits (including the ability to form special mentor-protege Joint Ventures), the application process, and common misconceptions and pitfalls.

Target Audience: Small Businesses (SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone, 8(a), SDB) and large businesses interest in doing business with the federal government. Register here

SmallGovCon Week in Review: February 3-7, 2025

Happy Friday! Are you all ready for the Super Bowl this Sunday? Maybe it can be a time of unity amidst uncertainty. Enjoy your favorite snacks and cheer on the commercials (I mean the Chiefs!). Have fun watching the game and have a wonderful weekend!

And now for this weeks news in federal government contracting. Stories included the role of DOGE, revamping federal agencies, and the new administration’s actions.

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 27-31, 2025

It’s Friday and time for another week in review, on this last day of January. We are so excited that our Kansas City Chiefs will be playing, once again, in the Super Bowl. We’re looking forward to the championship game against an impressive Philadelphia Eagles team, and a chance for the Chiefs to become the first team in NFL history to win three in a row. It should be a fun game.

And now we turn from football to this week in federal government contracting news, there is news of many executive orders, fundings freezes, and turnover of inspector generals. And when we say orders, freezes, and turnovers, we’re not talking about getting the snacks ready for next Sunday.

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 20-24, 2025

Happy Friday, Readers! We hope you had a great week and are ready for the weekend. We are looking forward to our weather finally warming up and melting off some of this snow in the next few days. The respite from the very cold temperatures will be a nice change. Have a good weekend in your neck of the woods!

This week in federal government contracting…

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 13-17, 2025

Happy Friday! We hope you had a great week. We are already halfway through January and looking forward to see if the Chiefs can finish the three-peat!

The federal landscape has been busy, with updates spanning Buy America, small business dollars, and procurement complications, including Polaris protests. You can read more about these topics in the articles below. Have a great weekend!

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Event! MyGovWatch Live: The B2G Roundtable, January 22, 2025, 12:00pm CDT

If you’re interested in winning more B2G business through the bid process, but need some answers, join this live forum and talk about this market with people who have helped hundreds of companies win government contracts. This month’s co-hosts are Koprince McCall Pottroff’s own Nicole Pottroff and Stephanie Ellis.

The event host, Nick Bernardo, President & Founder of MyGovWatch.com, has over 20 years of experience helping companies of all sizes figure out how to find, compete for, and actually win government contracts. Sign up now to join this free opportunity to speak with experts including some of your favorite SmallGovCon authors. Anyone who joins and asks a question qualifies for a 30-day free MyGovWatch trial to hear about relevant bids and RFPs. Register here.

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