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Assignment 3: GSA Wants You
Due Week 6 and worth 280 points

Imagine you are a service-disabled veteran and made your hobby of building model airplanes into a small business that produces very small remote control aircrafts capable of long sustained flights. You are ready to reply to a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedules solicitation.

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Assignment 3: GSA Wants You Due Week 6 and worth 280 points Imagine you are a service-disabled veteran and made your hobby of building model airplanes into a small business that produces very small remote control aircrafts capable of long sustained flights. You are ready to reply to a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedules solicitation. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Describe the electronic submission process and the security measures present in this approach. Analyze the advantages over classic paper solicitations. 2. Analyze whether or not your company has as much of a chance of having its bid accepted as a much larger corporation (e.g., Boeing) does. Support your analysis. 3. Speculate on how you would negotiate during the contract award process once your solicitation is accepted. 4. Determine the value of your most favored customer or class of customers to GSA. Analyze its impact on your small business. 5. Compare and contrast the advantages of being a small company over being a lager firm (e.g., Boeing) in terms of contract administration and management. 6. Assess the different marketing methods used to market to the federal government. Select three (3) most effective methods you would use to market your product or service to the U.S. government. Provide a rationale for your selection. 7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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: • • • • • Examine the Federal Supply Schedule program. Assess the different marketing methods used to market to the federal government. Compare the support programs available to small-business contractors. Use technology and information resources to research issues in contract administration and management. Write clearly and concisely about contract administration and management using proper writing mechanics.
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Running head: GSA CONTRACTS FOR VETERAN DISABLED SERVICE MEN

GSA CONTRACTS FOR VETERAN DISABLED SERVICE MEN
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GSA CONTRACTS FOR VETERAN DISABLED SERVICE MEN

GSA contracts for veteran disabled servicemen
Introduction
This paper takes an in-depth analysis of winning a contract in government agency
whereby a veteran disabled serviceman comes up with a small business producing remote
controlled aircrafts capable of sustaining long flights. In the United States of America, a Servicedisabled veteran infers to anyone with disabilities rating letter issued by the Department of the
Veteran Affairs. This means that an individual must have earlier in their lives participated in the
military sector. The central area of contestation is replying to the United States of America
General Services Administration Schedule solicitation. General Service Administration is one of
the many government agencies established back in 1949. The agency has had evolved over many
years, and currently, it is mandated with responsibilities of managing the government real estate
and buildings plus providing service and product support while in the procurement process.
Additionally, regulations and policy development on Federal procurement is under GSA. GSA is
widely known because of its various multiple awards Scheduled Contracts commonly known as
Federal Supply Schedule Contracts. GSA was first built with the aim of streamlining the
purchases by government and leveraging the buying power of the Federal Governance in the
procuring process.

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GSA CONTRACTS FOR VETERAN DISABLED SERVICE MEN
Electronic submission process and the security measures present in GSA Schedules
solicitation
If ready to prepare an offer in response to GSA Schedule Solicitation, there calls for
submitting the responses in electronic forms; eOffer/eMod (Committee on Government Affairs,
2010). This type of system hands out secure, interactive environs that simplifies the whole
process of solicitation for contractors and future contractors. This is because it is from offer
submission to modification of the contract. eOffer/eMsod is a web-based application that has
been designed with intents of permitting various industry partners to prepare and submit their
GSA Schedule offers or Schedule contracts modification requests in an electronic manner. This
model uses the latest digitized technology in ensuring the presence of integrity of data plus
allowing electronic signing of the various proposals (General Services Administration, 2006).
The digital certificates are a pre-requisite so that eOffer/eMod usage is eased.
Some of the benefits of eOffer/eMod ap...


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