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There is basic information needed to do business with the Federal Government. Whether it’s doing your initial registrations or finding a small business representative, The Government Guru has compiled all the necessary information into one page. Bookmark this page and use it daily. It will simplify your life!

GETTING STARTED:

Get your DUNS number – off the CCR page, not from D&B

http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform

Identify your North American Industry Classification System codes

www.naics.com or

http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/

Also Identify your Product and Service codes (yes, this is an old document but is still in use)

https://www.acquisition.gov/service_product_codes.pdf

Once you have your DUNS number, then register at CCR

http://www.ccr.gov

Review the Dynamic Small Business Search page to see your registration and search your competition

http://dsbs.sba.gov/dsbs/search/dsp_dsbs.cfm

Complete the Online Representations and Certification Application

https://orca.bpn.gov

LAWS AND REGULATIONS

Need to look up a Federal Acquisition Regulation?

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/

Need to look up a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement?

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfars/html/current/tochtml.htm

Lookup Statutes on the Code of Federal Regulations

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

General Services Administration Acquisition Manual

https://www.acquisition.gov/gsam/gsam.html

Information on Services Contract Act or Davis Bacon Act – wage rules

http://www.dol.gov

BASIC RESEARCH

The one stop research site for the Federal Government – links to everything – like a ‘Google’ for the Government. This links to 33 million other pages of information

http://www.usa.gov

Mentioning Google, here is the actual Google site set up to search Government:

http://www.google.com/unclesam

Want to keep up on what’s going on in the Department of Defense? You can go to their primary info site here and even get info via Podcasts, Facebook, Flickr, Google Buzz, Twitter, UStream or YouTube. DoD is tuned in!

http://www.defense.gov

You can subscribe to get updates from various DoD elements via your email. Of course, The Government Guru gets all of these and filters out the good stuff for you already!

http://www.defense.gov/news/dodnews.aspx

Keeping on defense.gov, If you’d like to see what contracts have been awarded that are over $5 millon daily, here is the archive

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/

Federal Procurement Data System – providing public access to contract awards

https://www.fpds.gov/

USA Spending – looking up contracts, contractors, and spending trends by agency or by state:

www.usaspending.gov

Global Security is an excellent non-government source of information on US Military activities and organizations

http://www.globalsecurity.org

Another excellent non-government site for information on DoD is Military.com. We have included some direct links for finding information about military installations around the world

http://www.military.com

Browse installations by location:

http://benefits.military.com/misc/installations/Browse_locations.asp

Browse installations alphabetically:

http://benefits.military.com/misc/installations/Browse_Alphabet.jsp

Find military installations via a US Map:

http://benefits.military.com/misc/installations/Browse_USMap.jsp

Or find a military installation worldwide by Service:

http://benefits.military.com/misc/installations/Browse_Service.jsp

OFFICE OF SMALL AND DISADVANTEGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION – OSDBU

Information on the different small business offices provided by major federal agencies

http://www.osdbu.gov

Direct link to the list of Small Business Offices

http://www.osdbu.gov/offices.html

Listing of Small Business Outreach Events

http://www.osdbu.gov/general.html

Some of the Larger Individual Small Business Offices per Agency

Defense Contract Management Agency

http://www.dcma.mil/DCMAHQ/dcma-sb/index.htm

Defense Logistics Agency

http://www.dla.mil/db

Department of the Air Force

http://www.airforcesmallbiz.org

Department of the Army

http://www.sellingtoarmy.info

Department of Defense

http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/

Department of the Navy

http://www.donhq.navy.mil/OSBP

General Services Administration

http://www.gsa.gov/smallbusiness

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

http://www.osbp.nasa.gov

Smithsonian Institution

http://www.si.edu/oeema/sdbu.htm

Social Security Administration

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/oag/osdbu/osdbu.htm

Transportation Security Administration

http://www.tsa.gov/join/smallbiz/index.shtm

U.S. Agency for International Development

http://www.usaid.gov/business/small_business/

U.S. Department of Agriculture

http://www.da.usda.gov/osdbu/

U.S. Department of Commerce

http://www.osec.doc.gov/osdbu/

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ods/osdbu.html

U.S. Department of Energy

http://smallbusiness.doe.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

http://www.hhs.gov/osdbu/

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

http://www.dhs.gov/openforbusiness

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

http://www.hud.gov/offices/osdbu/index.cfm

U.S. Department of the Interior

http://www.doi.gov/osdbu/

U.S Department of Justice

http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/osdbu/

U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/osdbu.regs/procurement.htm

U.S Department of State

http://www.state.gov/m/a/sbdu/

U.S. Department of Transportation

http://www.osdbu.dot.gov/

U.S. Department of the Treasury

http://www.treasury.gov/offices/management/dcfo/osdbu/

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

http://www.va.gov/OSDBU/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.epa.gov/osdbu/

U.S. Postal Service

http://www.usps.com/purchasing/supplierdiversity/diversitymenu.htm

SITES TO GET HELP:

Small Business Administration - from here, there is a pulldown menu on the left side that can be used to access the 8(a), HUBZone and other small business socioeconomic category sites as well as finding the SBA Small Business Size Standards table to see if you are a large business or small business

http://www.sba.gov

Minority Business Development Agency – a part of Department of Commerce specifically set up to assist minority owned firms in business development

http://www.mbda.gov

Procurement Technical Assistance Centers – to assist you in Procurement Assistance

http://www.aptac-us.org/new/index.php

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