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where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code. How does anyone k
by jlebrech 9y ago
where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code.
How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
- NeutronBoy 9y agoMost governments have public portals (or you have to register with your company details but it's basically open apart from that) that they post RF{I,T,Q}s on.
- paulhart 9y agoMost government contracts in Canada are posted to Merx[0] [0] http://www.merx.com/ http://www.merx.com/
- timthorn 9y agoIn the EU, there's the Official Journal of the EU (OJEU) which all public sector procurements over a certain size (~£100k but varies) must be publicised in.
- fortythirteen 9y ago> where does someone find government contracts to bid on? The country club
- Retric 9y agoThe government creates a Request for Proposal (RFP) listing what the government wants. Companies have some listed period that could be as short as 7 days or as long as 6 months to respond with a Proposal of work including costs. Government then reviews and picks one based on the stated criteria. This might seem like a reasonable solution, but it adds significant overhead.
- gonzo41 9y agoSo adding onto this, if you do a quick google for an exmaple of a government RFP. OMFG! no agile in sight. You'll be greeted with about a thousand pages of spec. This is where the big shops earn their money. They know how to grind through the paperwork.
- stevenwoo 9y agoThis example was from 30 years ago, but I worked on a cross platform version control system for a contractor to NASA and the documentation was enough to fill an Ikea sized bookcase of binders filled with the printed TDD on double sided paper. Of course git was created ten years later.
- Retric 9y agoYou find plenty of Agile in government contracting. Generally the requirements are very high level and the implementation details are after the fact. I am also aware of some huge pivots where some minor feature became the only thing the customer cared about.
- sjg007 9y agoYou also have to be registered in the system and some contracts are especially target to women owned, minority owned small business companies etc...
- maxxxxx 9y agoMost agencies have listings publicly available. It's actually not that hard to bid for a contract if you follow the rules.
- protomyth 9y agoIn the US, you can look to the "Federal Register", but you will be digging through a lot of other stuff also. https://www.federalregister.gov/ https://www.federalregister.gov/