Mar 5th, 2008
A free seminar on government contracting will be presented from 10 a.m. - noon on March 12 at the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce Conference Room at 197 Auditorium Street in Jackson. The event is sponsored by the Tennessee Small Business Development Center, Jackson State Community College and the West Tennessee Business Resource Center.
The first session titled 'Basics of Government Contracting' will cover how to do business with the local governmental entities, the State of Tennessee, and introduce the basics of Federal Government Contracting. Also included are overviews of the U.S. Small Business Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program, Small Disadvantaged Business Program and Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) initiative. All attendees receive resource material that contains information necessary to become certified to qualify for government contracts.
The second session titled 'Advanced Government Contracting' will immediately follow the first and will teach how to find contracting opportunities within General Services Administration, Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Postal Service. Step by step instruction and actual examples will be used to help you interpret a bid match, invitation to bid (ITB), request for proposal (RFP), and a request for quotation (RFQ). This session will also include information on packages from the State of Tennessee and Metro Nashville.
The seminars are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required. For more information, contact Ron Acree, director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center, at 424-5389 or e-mail racree@jscc.edu.
Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. Additional funding is provided by the Tennessee Board of Regents and the State of Tennessee. All SBA funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance