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Unsolicited Proposals
If you feel that your company has a product or service which may be of interest to the Coast Guard, you should do the following:
- Monitor FedBizOpps.gov, where the government publishes its notices of procurements. This site provides a wealth of information about current government requirements and offers specific guidance that will allow you to submit bids or proposals to the respective agency offices.
- Register on Central Contractor Registration, the primary vendor database for the federal government. In addition, FirstGov.gov, a General Services Administration-based web site, provides user-friendly service and assistance to firms that have not previously done business with the U.S. Government.
Before submitting an unsolicited proposal, you should:
- Carefully and objectively assess your product/service to ensure that it is, in fact, innovative and unique, and that it is not already commercially available to the government.
- Research Part 15.6 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) which provides specific criteria that must be met before an unsolicited proposal can be submitted.
Last Modified 9/2/2008