Hub Huddle: How Do I Get Those Good Government Contracts?

Date and Time

Friday Apr 12, 2019
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT

Friday, April 12
9-10:30 a.m.

Location

Quad Cities Chamber
Arconic Room
331 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA

331 W. 3rd Street Davenport Iowa 52801

Fees/Admission

FREE

Contact Information

Lynn Friesth
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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.

How Do I Get Those Good Government Contracts?

Presented by:
Melissa Burant, Government Contracting Specialist
Iowa Procurement Technical Assistance Center, CIRAS

You’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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Time will be provided for Q & A and networking with other attendees.

This event is free to attend. Please register at quadcitieschamber.com.

**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.**

This program is presented by the Quad Cities Chamber's Quad Cities Manufacturing Innovation Hub and the Defense Industry Adjustment Program.

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Acknowledgment: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.