Ilene Giles

Ilene has dedicated over twenty years to federal contracts and is the author of, "Road to Business Growth in the GSA Program" Ilene is known for working with vendors who struggle with GSA contracts and its processes. She is a former GSA contract specialist who has helped over five hundred vendors worldwide in winning federal business with a GSA schedule, contact Ilene for a free consultation

Research Federal Contracts In 3 Easy Steps

Performing market intelligence is essential when pursuing government contracts because you don’t want to walk into the federal marketplace blindly.  You need to be able to know what agencies buy what you sell and how often.  There are several reasons why you perform your market research but in this article I am just going to focus […]

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3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Applying for A GSA Contract

Applying to the GSA multiple awards schedule program is not a one application process, it requires a lot of your time.    If you do decide to pursue the application process your going to need to be committed to following through to completion in order to see any type of results from your actions.  Aside from performing your

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Reverse Auction Training Extended

Currently GSA has a program that is similar to FedBid called the, “GSA Reverse Auction”.  This program is ran by the National IT Commodity Program based in Region 4, Atlanta, GA.  There are over thirty schedules and BPA’s available to contractors for bid.  The program was created to have contractors compete to win business from agencies; prices will

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