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Has anyone ever heard of or signed up for the below program.
It is called the Set-Aside program and is supposedly designed to help small businesses compete with large businesses for government work. You have to go through their process to see if you qualify as a small business, which most of us do. They do charge an annual fee ranging from $499/year to $2500/year depending on the size of your ad. It is a directory and they say they only allow 3-6 companies per “category class”. I am talking to someone tomorrow to get more info, but was curious if anyone has ever heard or dealt with this company. This company operates in over 45 states.
Haven’t hear of it. It sounds a little shady. Seems to be highly priced.
I agree with Ron.
The website is “.us” NOT “.gov”This sounds like a for profit, private business “bending the truth” to get YOUR money.
Yes, this is a private company and like us they are in business to make money. The benefit of their service is that they provide a way to get government business without all the paperwork hassles and also the payment is same day (which is often not the case with government business) with either check, Visa, or direct fund transfer.
Dave, I would proceed with extreme caution.
Dave,
If you want gov’t. business… check with your local city gov’t.
Its the easiest way to begin.If you want to clean the Federal Court House, go ask the court clerk where to begin the process.
If you want to clean the State Capitol bdlg., call the main reception line and ask. They will tell you how.
Best of all, these ideas will cost hardly nothing.
Getting a gov’t. contract isn’t as hard as you may think. As a matter of fact, its easier than getting a $ 1.00 refund from “Ma Bell”.
Good Luck
This program is not a way for me to contact them, but rather for them to contact me (i.e. a yellowpages for gov’t agencies). I don’t want to spend 5 hours getting the runaround from gov’t agencies to find the person to talk to to end up cleaning one or two rooms in an office. This is a little to no legwork situation for me. Person I talked to today was the “high pressure” sales guy. Still mulling over the situation and would love any more input, especially from those that have cleaned or tried to clean any government buildings. Are they even worth it, or are they similar to the restaurants in that in the end they just aren’t worth it? In theory the program sounds great, but we all know how that can change in the real world.
The more you tell me about this, the more it smells.
The only thing you can count on, is that the gov’t. office carpets won’t be covered in grease.
Give the telephone a try, I truely believe that you will find the
“run around” to be very limited. Most cities have only 1 office that receives vendor applications. Take special precautions on the phone-
Your not looking for a vendor permit, your looking to become a vendor for the city gov’t.Good Luck
If you need a little more convincing- Why pay someone your hard earned money, to do something that you can do Better?
I would assume that it is doable and maybe this book is that part of the process now that I think about it. When I was in the military I worked in IT and we had contracted out some cable installation. The guy that was heading the project was the owner and he told me that it is very difficult to even get on the list to be approved as a possible government contracted company.
I do work for the Oregon Department of Human Services, their largest government agency, and they initially called me from one of my well placed yellow page ads in a real directory. I’ve been soliceted by these type of directories before, and they are typically nothing but anopther revenue book with a twist. They might ciculate to some government offices, but that doesn’t mean that government employees use their book. The gov’t employees will use whatever books they’re used to using in their area if they are looking for a new service. This has been my experince.
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