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Jamie Dufrene
Rajin Enterprises
http://www.jceconsulting.net/

Great response Jaime. I was just going to mention the Government Purchase Card, threshold and TAP.

Richard, I took a look at your site, as well and I noticed that you are catering to the transitioning folks. You won`t find anyone in the Contracting departments aboard military installations looking for your type of services except the Transition Assistance Offices.

Now if you were you to become accredited through DANTES and accept Tuition Assistance or other certifications then you could get with the Education Centers aboard each military installation and inform them of your courses. OSHA would even be of interest to Base Safety offices since they send many people to those courses.

I`m not expert, but I hope that helps.

Hi richardhull,

Another thing you might try is approaching training institutes that are already on the GSA schedule or have gov contracts and see about parterning or subcontracting in some way for courses you offer that they don`t. Subcontracting to someone with a gov contract or GSA schedule gives you the credit for performing on a government contract that would allow you to get on the schedule yourself. Check GSA`s site for similar businesses in your area and approach them.

Depending on where you are, you may also be able to approach government-owned/sponsored training centers directly. For example in my area there is the Foreign Service Institute, owned by Department of State and they regularly contract out their training requirements to private businesses. Many of their classes are conducted by the business Management Concepts.

Anyway, I do hope this helps.

Marsha

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Marsha Ford
Beckford Communications
http://www.beckfordcommunications.net
Email: info@beckfordcommunications.net