Amtower Off-Center Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio
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Hosted by nationally-known speaker and consultant Mark Amtower, Amtower Off-Center highlights the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain silly of doing business in the government market. Every week experts join Mark for a lively discussion of current issues facing the government contractor community.
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Q4 do's and don'ts
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners and a regular on Federal News Network.
The wide-ranging conversation covers:
Q4 do's and don'ts
Issues around the GSA Schedule program, including why many do not require a Schedule
The delay in Alliant 3 and issues surrounding the awarding of IDIQs
Why contractors need to be agile now more than ever -
All things SmartPay
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Brian Stauffer, CEO of Paperless Innovations at Actus, for a wide-ranging discussion on issues regarding the government purchase card- SmartPay.
Topics include:
The possible increase in both micro-purchase and simplified acquisition threshold
Issues confronting the agency comptroller regarding audit-ready data
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The keys to winning government contracts
This week on Amtower Off Center, Dr Bob Frey, author author of Successful Proposal Strategies On-the Go and principal of Successful Proposal Strategies LLC, joins host Mark Amtower for a discussion on winning proposals.
Topics discussed include:.
The six functional areas needed for winning proposals
What do evaluators across the spectrum (DOD, military,IC, civilian) care about when reviewing proposals
Differences in federal vs commercial and international proposals
Key elements of and the importance of the executive summary -
Navigating the capture process
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by capture guru Jennifer Namvar, CEO of The Peerless Group. Namvar developed a multi-point "cheat sheet" on the capture process, which we discuss on the show.
Topics include:
The fundamentals of opportuities
Acquisition timing and capture process
Corporate capabilities to win
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The value of GovCon associations
This week on Amtower Off Center, GovCon expert Katie Helwig of MildRed joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the value of GovCon associations.
Topics include:
Creating visibility in GovCon
The GovCon association landscape
Criteria for selecting the association which will be best for you
Getting involved with your association -
An overview of generative AI
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower interviews Fergal McGovern, CEO of Visible Thread.
Visible Thread(VT) provides support tools and processes for the contractor side of the proposal community, especially in the evolving area of generative AI.
Topics include:
Fergal's background and what VT offers to the contractor community
An overview of generative AI's impact on the GovCon ecosystem
Why hallucinations occur and some potential work-arounds
Two questions to ask when applying generative AI
Prompt engineering & retrieval augmented generation and how to get better results