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SUMMARY:Hub Huddle: How Do I Get Those Good Government Contracts?
DESCRIPTION:Hub Huddles are an opportunity for manufacturing leaders to share\, on a peer-to-peer basis\, best practices for growth and strategies to overcoming challenges.\n\n\n\nHow Do I Get Those Good Government Contracts?\n\n \n\nPresented by:\n\nMelissa Burant\, Government Contracting Specialist\n\nIowa Procurement Technical Assistance Center\, CIRAS\n\n \n\nYou're looking to diversify your business clients.  You've figured out what government contracting opportunities exist with the help of the Hub's Supply Chain Mapping Tool\, but now what? What are the next steps? Are there certifications or requirements do you need to get or update for government work? \n\n \n\nFind out at the next Hub Huddle when Melissa Burant with the Iowa Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) explains the steps you can take to prepare your business for doing work in the government contracting realm.\n\n \n\nMelissa is a Government Contracting Specialist with the Iowa Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) based at CIRAS\, serving clients in Scott and Clinton counties. She has more than 19 years of government and contracting related experience\, both as an internal federal stakeholder and an external champion of industry in the contracting market. \n\n \n\nMelissa served as a federal contracting officer at the Army Contracting Command\, Rock Island\, and has more than 15 years of federal service. In her duties as a contracting officer and contract specialist\, she was responsible for soliciting\, awarding and administering contract requirements for a variety of goods and services for the Department of the Army. She assisted in the Iraq Drawdown and managed the contract for critical security service operations during this time.\n\n \n\nWhen Melissa joined CIRAS in 2014\, she transitioned to working directly with industry as an advocate sharing her extensive knowledge of policies\, procedures and best practices with industry counterparts. Melissa works with Iowa companies to develop relationships with other industry partners\, delivers webinars and in-person workshops on how to develop your government market and works one-on-one with businesses to better understand their unique fit within the complex field of the government contracting market.\n\n \n Time will be provided for Q & A and networking with other attendees.\n\n \n\nThis event is free to attend. Please register at quadcitieschamber.com.\n\n\n\n**NOTE: Free on-street\, two-hour parking is available in downtown Davenport\, or there is a parking garage one block south of the Quad Cities Chamber office at the corner of Ripley & 2nd Streets (enter from Harrison).  Pay at the Parkmobile kiosk PRIOR to coming into the building.**\n\n\n\n \n\n\n	\n		\n			This program is presented by the Quad Cities Chamber's Quad Cities Manufacturing Innovation Hub and the Defense Industry Adjustment Program. \n		\n	\n\n\n \n\nLeading Organizations:\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAcknowledgment:This content was prepared as part of the Illinois Defense Industry Adjustment Program\, a partnership between the University of Illinois System\, the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce\, and the Voorhees Center at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)\, with financial support from the U.S. Department of Defense\, Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA).  It reflects the views of the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce and does not necessarily reflect the views of the OEA. For more information\, please visit www.IllinoisDIA.org.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="font-size: 16px\; color: rgb(88\, 88\, 88)\;"><span style="font-family: arial\, sans-serif\;">Hub Huddles are an opportunity for manufacturing leaders to share\, on a peer-to-peer basis\, best practices for growth and strategies to overcoming challenges.</span></span><br style="font-size: 16px\;" />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:16px\;"><strong><span style="color:black\;">How Do I Get Those Good Government Contracts?</span></strong><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">Presented by:</span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;">Melissa Burant\, Government Contracting Specialist</span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;">Iowa Procurement Technical Assistance Center\, CIRAS</span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">You&rsquo\;re looking to diversify your business clients.&nbsp\; You&rsquo\;ve figured out what government contracting opportunities exist with the help of the Hub&rsquo\;s Supply Chain Mapping Tool\, but now what? What are the next steps? Are there certifications or requirements do you need to get or update for government work? </span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">Find out at the next Hub Huddle when Melissa Burant with the Iowa Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) explains the steps you can take to prepare your business for doing work in the government contracting realm.</span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">Melissa is a Government Contracting Specialist with the Iowa Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) based at CIRAS\, serving clients in Scott and Clinton counties. She has more than 19 years of government and contracting related experience\, both as an internal federal stakeholder and an external champion of industry in the contracting market. </span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">Melissa served as a federal contracting officer at the Army Contracting Command\, Rock Island\, and has more than 15 years of federal service. In her duties as a contracting officer and contract specialist\, she was responsible for soliciting\, awarding and administering contract requirements for a variety of goods and services for the Department of the Army. She assisted in the Iraq Drawdown and managed the contract for critical security service operations during this time.</span><br />\n&nbsp\;</span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-size:16px\;">When Melissa joined CIRAS in 2014\, she transitioned to working directly with industry as an advocate sharing her extensive knowledge of policies\, procedures and best practices with industry counterparts. Melissa works with Iowa companies to develop relationships with other industry partners\, delivers webinars and in-person workshops on how to develop your government market and works one-on-one with businesses to better understand their unique fit within the complex field of the government contracting market.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;\n<div><span style="font-size: 16px\;">&#8203\;<span style="color: black\; font-family: arial\;">Time will be provided for Q &amp\; A and networking with other attendees.</span></span></div>\n\n<div><span style="font-size: 16px\;">&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color: rgb(95\, 95\, 95)\;"><span style="font-family: arial\, sans-serif\;">This event is free to attend. Please register at quadcitieschamber.com.<br />\n<br />\n<strong>**NOTE: Free on-street\, two-hour parking is available in downtown Davenport\, or there is a parking garage one block&nbsp\;south of the Quad Cities Chamber office at the corner of Ripley &amp\; 2nd Streets (enter from Harrison).&nbsp\; Pay at the Parkmobile kiosk&nbsp\;PRIOR to coming into the building.**</strong></span></span></span></div>\n\n<div><br />\n&nbsp\;</div>\n\n<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK74" style="background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; box-sizing: inherit\; border-collapse: collapse\; border-spacing: 0px\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-family: Arial\, sans-serif\; font-size: 14.6667px\; width: 650px\;" width="100%">\n	<tbody style="box-sizing: inherit\;">\n		<tr style="box-sizing: inherit\;">\n			<td style="border-width: initial\; border-style: initial\; box-sizing: inherit\; padding: 3.75pt\;"><span style="font-family: arial\;">This program is presented by the Quad Cities Chamber&#39\;s Quad Cities Manufacturing Innovation Hub and the Defense Industry Adjustment Program.&nbsp\;</span></td>\n		</tr>\n	</tbody>\n</table>\n\n<div>&nbsp\;</div>\n\n<div><strong style="box-sizing: inherit\; font-family: Arial\, sans-serif\; font-size: small\;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit\;"><span style="font-size: 14px\;"><span style="font-family: arial\;">Leading&nbsp\;Organizations</span></span></u></strong><span style="font-family: arial\;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit\; font-family: Arial\, sans-serif\; font-size: small\;">:<br />\n<br />\n<img alt="" height="81" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/2843/Image/DIA_Banner_Blue1.jpg" style="width: 607px\; height: 81px\;" width="607" /></strong></span></div>\n\n<div>&nbsp\;</div>\n\n<div><span style="font-size: 9px\;"><span style="font-family: arial\;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; text-align: justify\;"><font style="box-sizing: inherit\;">Acknowledgment:</font></span>This content was prepared as part of the Illinois Defense Industry Adjustment Program\, a partnership between the University of Illinois System\, the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce\, and the Voorhees Center at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)\, with financial support from the U.S. Department of Defense\, Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA).&nbsp\; It reflects the views of the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce and does not necessarily reflect the views of the OEA. For more information\, please visit&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.illinoisdia.org/">www.IllinoisDIA.org</a>.<span style="box-sizing: inherit\; text-align: justify\; color: rgb(89\, 89\, 89)\;">&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;</span></span></span></div>\n<span style="color:black\;"> </span>
LOCATION:Quad Cities Chamber Arconic Room 331 W. 3rd St. Davenport\, IA
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