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Assignment 1: Small-Business Opportunities with the Navy
Worth 150 points
Imagine that you are the owner of a small floor refinishing business that provides a specialty coating product for ceramic tile and marble floors. There is no other local flooring business that provides this service. Having recently received a patent on your product, you are ready to expand your business by competing for Navy contracts at the local base, which is located a few miles away. The service you want to sell is the specialty coating, the application of the coating, and a regular maintenance schedule. Your company consists of you, one office assistant, and two production employees.
Note: You will be referencing this business throughout all five assignments for this course. Please use “First Name, Last Name, Inc.” as the name of your company throughout these assignments.
Write a two to three (3-4) page paper in which you:
- Develop your company’s acquisition and planning strategy for obtaining a contract.
- Analyze the manner in which utilizing SmartPay or a similar program in electronic contracting will assist your company and the Navy. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Use at least three (4) quality references Note: Wikipedia and other related websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Describe the nature of government contracting, including authority, responsibilities, and legal considerations.
- Explain the government acquisition process using sealed bidding, negotiations, and alternative contracting methods.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in federal acquisition and contract management.
- Write clearly and concisely about federal acquisition and contract management using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
| Points: 150 | Assignment 1: Small-Business Opportunities with the Navy | ||||
| Criteria | Unacceptable Below 60% F | Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D | Fair 70-79% C | Proficient 80-89% B | Exemplary 90-100% A |
| 1. Develop your company’s acquisition and planning strategy for obtaining a contract. Weight: 40% | Did not submit or incompletely developed your company’s acquisition and planning strategy for obtaining a contract. | Insufficiently developed your company’s acquisition and planning strategy for obtaining a contract. | Partially developed your company’s acquisition and planning strategy for obtaining a contract. | Satisfactorily developed your company’s acquisition and planning strategy for obtaining a contract. | Thoroughly developed your company’s acquisition and planning strategy for obtaining a contract. |
| 2. Analyze the manner in which utilizing SmartPay or a similar program in electronic contracting will assist your company and the Navy. Provide a rationale for your response. Weight: 35% | Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the manner in which utilizing SmartPay or a similar program in electronic contracting will assist your company and the Navy. Did not provide or incompletely provided a rationale for your response. | Insufficiently analyzed the manner in which utilizing SmartPay or a similar program in electronic contracting will assist your company and the Navy. Insufficiently provided a rationale for your response. | Partially analyzed the manner in which utilizing SmartPay or a similar program in electronic contracting will assist your company and the Navy. Partially provided a rationale for your response. | Satisfactorily analyzed the manner in which utilizing SmartPay or a similar program in electronic contracting will assist your company and the Navy. Satisfactorily provided a rationale for your response. | Thoroughly analyzed the manner in which utilizing SmartPay or a similar program in electronic contracting will assist your company and the Navy. Thoroughly provided a rationale for your response. |
| 3. 3 references Weight: 5% | No references provided | Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices. | Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices. | Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices. | Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
| 4. Writing Mechanics, Grammar, and Formatting Weight: 5% | Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting. | Numerous errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. | Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting. | Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting. | Error free or almost error free grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting. |
| 5. Appropriate use of APA in-text citations and reference section. Weight: 5% | Lack of in-text citations and / or lack of reference section. | In-text citations and references are given, but not in APA format. | In-text citations and references are provided, but they are only partially formatted correctly in APA style. | Most in-text citations and references are provided, and they are generally formatted correctly in APA style. | In-text citations and references are error free or almost error free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style. |
| 6. Information Literacy/Integration of Sources Weight: 5% | Serious errors in the integration of sources, such as intentional or accidental plagiarism, or failure to use in-text citations. | Sources are rarely integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. | Sources are partially integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. | Sources are mostly integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. | Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. |
| 7. Clarity and Coherence of Writing Weight: 5% | Information is confusing to the reader and fails to include reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. | Information is somewhat confusing with not enough reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. | Information is partially clear with minimal reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. | Information is mostly clear and generally supported with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. | Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. |
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Small Business Opportunities With the Navy
The United States government is the single purchaser of services and goods globally. The
SBA works with a lot of federal agencies awarding 23% of all prime contracting dollars to small
businesses. The Small Business Administration, SBA, also works with disadvantaged persons, in
a program that is sophisticated to assist grow their business via technical guidance through
individual guidance, and also training workshops.
When looking into government contracting, a good place to begin with the SBA. The
SBA offers lots of programs that assist small businesses such as financial and procurement
assistance, minority small business, business development and advocacy, (Pat, 2003). The
procurement assistance would be the most essential program. PTAC, that is the Procurement
Technical Assistance Centers provide training and counseling to the small business owners such
as me who want to get into contracting.
Acquisition and Planning Strategy
Acquisition has been used to obtain products and services through contracting. This
practice region applies to the firm that are commissioning...
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