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Phone: 952.201.7430 Fax: 866.417.1321 Email: GlobalSynergyAlliance@Gmail.com

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What we can do for you

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED “HOW CAN MY COMPANY BREAK INTO THE FEDERAL MARKETPLACE?” HERE IS YOUR CHANCE AT A FRACTION OF THE COST OF THOSE OTHER GUYS. WHETHER YOU ARE AN ESTABLISHED ORGINAZATION OR LOOKING TO START A NEW COMPANY, OUR TRAINED PROFESSIONALS WILL BE HAPPY TO OFFER FREE PHONE CONSULTATIONS AND QUOTES FOR SERVICES. OUR GOAL BEHIND THIS IS NOT ONLY TO ASSIST NEW AND CURRENT FEDERAL CONTRACTORS BUT TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, TO ESTABLISH NETWORKS AND TO ENSURE YOUR COMPANYS SUCCESS. WE BELIEVE WHOLE HEARTEDLY THAT “WE DO NOT SUCCED UNLESS YOU SUCCEED”

Government Contracting Services

1. Federal Contracting / GSA Coaching Services
If you are new to Federal Contracting and need to know the basics to position your business best, then these services are for you. We cover these topics on a one-on-one basis using a hands-on approach.

Contracting Terminology
Contracting Procedures
Identifying your business goods/services with the proper FSC and NAICS codes
Qualifying and applying for special small business certifications such as 8(a), HUBZONE, DBE, SBE, etc.
Registration in the mandatory Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and ORCA
Identification of Federal Business Opportunities for your business and utilizing the Internet to your best advantage

2. Federal Government Request for Proposal (RFP) and GSA Schedule Preparation Services

If your company needs assistance in bidding on a Federal Contract and writing the Request for Proposal (RFQ) we can write it for you and recommend bidding strategies that will provide you with the best chance of "WINNING THE BID".
If your company has been in business for a year or more and you have active commercial customers for your goods and services, then you may qualify for and want a GSA Schedule Contract. A GSA Schedule Contract pre-qualifies you to sell your goods and services to the Federal agencies for 5 years and eliminates much of the paperwork and competition associated with bidding (RFQs).

3. Federal Government Sales / Marketing Consulting Services

Preparation of Marketing Plans specifically for the FEDs
Marketing and Media Communications Specialist for the FEDs can tailor a multi-media marketing plan for you
Sales and marketing training for your own staff on how to best penetrate the Federal marketplace
FED trade shows representation for your business at GSA Expos, FEDMART shows and large events for FOSE, BOMA expos or Corps of Engineers Expos, etc. We will reserve the space, advice on booth setup and appropriate marketing and handouts

Our Mission Statement:

We know that many companies offer GSA proposal preparation and consulting services. We know that you have many choices about whom you can trust to shepherd you through this sometimes arduous process. That's why we appreciate the fact that you chose to spend some of your very valuable time with one of our qualified representatives. We will do everything we can to uphold your trust.

We are committed to helping small businesses. We understand that most small businesses do not have a great deal of money to allocate to proposal assistance. That's why Synergy 7; GSA proposal preparation fee is below the norm. But we maintain our level of service above the norm.

We have years of professional federal government procurement experience, including more than two decades in government procurement. We have worked in and with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, government contractors and private industry. We have the experience your company requires to create a first-class proposal to GSA.

That experience extends to not only know what the government needs and how to present it, but also to such critical issues as logic flow, grammar, syntax and spelling. These errors seriously degrade an otherwise excellent proposal; we don't allow proposals to go to the government with such errors.

We care about our clients, and we ensure that all questions are answered. In what some see as cynical times, we make sure that all of our clients gain the confidence to create a winning GSA proposal as well as the confidence to do business with the federal government. Our Contract Review/Document Editing and Proposal Writing divisions also ensure that your outgoing documents reflect excellence upon your company.

“WE DO NOT SUCCEED, UNLES YOU SUCCEED”

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What is the General Services Administration (GSA)



Agency overview
Formed	July 1, 1949
Headquarters	1800 F Street Washington, D.C.
Employees	11,875 (2006)
Annual Budget	$20,900,000,000^[1]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices, provides transportation and office space to federal employees, and develops government wide cost-minimizing policies, among other management tasks. Its stated mission is to "help federal agencies better serve the public by offering, at best value, superior workplaces, expert solutions, acquisition services and management policies."

History

Former President Herbert Hoover was asked in 1947 by President Harry Truman to lead a commission to make recommendations to the President and Congress on how to improve the administrative activities of the federal government. One of the recommendations of the commission was the establishment of an "Office of the General Services." This proposed office would combine the responsibilities of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Federal Supply and Office of Contract Settlement, the National Archives Establishment, the Federal Work Agency, and the War Assets Administration. GSA became an independent agency on July 1, 1949, following the passage of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act. General Jess Larson, Administrator of the War Assets Administration, was named as GSA's first Administrator.

The fist job awaiting Administrator Larson and the newly formed GSA was a complete renovation of the White House. The structure had fallen into such a state of disrepair by 1949 that one inspector of the time said the historic structure was standing “purely from habit.” Larson later explained the in depth nature of the total renovation by saying, “In order to make the White House structurally sound, it was necessary to completely dismantle, and I mean completely dismantle, everything from the White House except the four walls, which were constructed of stone. Everything, except the four walls without a roof, was finally stripped down, and that's where the work started.” GSA worked closely with President Truman and First Lady Bess Truman to ensure that the new agency's first major project was a success. GSA completed the renovation in 1952. ^[2]

GSA Today

GSA employs about 12,000 federal workers and has an annual operating budget of roughly $16 billion, approximately 1% of which is appropriated from taxpayer dollars. GSA oversees $66 billion of procurement annually. It contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. Federal property, divided chiefly among 8,300 owned and leased buildings and a 210,000 vehicle motor pool. Among the real estate assets managed by the GSA is the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, the largest U.S. Federal building after The Pentagon.

GSA's business lines include the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) and the Public Buildings Service (PBS). Other divisions include the Office of Government wide Policy, and various Staff Offices, including the Office of Small Business Utilization, the Office of Civil Rights, and the Office of Citizen Services and Communications. The official U.S. government web portal, USA.gov, and the Spanish-language web portal to U.S. government services, GobiernoUSA.gov, are members of the Office of Citizen Services and Communication’s family of websites, which also includes pueblo.gsa.gov (the Federal Citizen Information Center), Kids.gov, ConsumerAction.gov, and WebContent.gov.

The National Archives and Records Administration was also part of GSA until it was made an independent agency in 1985.

GSA recently completed early-outs and buy-outs to reduce staff. It reorganized to merge the Federal Supply Service (FSS) and Federal Technology Service (FTS) business lines into Federal Acquisition Service (FAS). Bush Administration political appointee Stephen A. Perry resigned as GSA Administrator on October 31, 2005. On May 31, 2006, Lurita Doan, also a Bush Administration political appointee, took the oath of office to become the 18th GSA Administrator and the first woman to hold the position. Lurita Doan resigned from office on April 30, 2008. David Bibb is currently acting as administrator.

On June 25, 2008, the White House announced that Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner James A. Williams was nominated to be GSA's administrator, replacing Lurita Doan. Williams served as the first commissioner of FAS after the agency combined the Federal Technology Service and the Federal Supply Service. Williams is a career SES member, rather than a political appointee. The announcement came on the same day that acting administrator David Bibb announced that he planned to retire on September 1, 2008 to pursue work in the private sector.

GSA Schedule

GSA often assists with procurement work for other government agencies. As part of this effort, it maintains the large GSA Schedule, which other agencies can use to buy goods and services. Think of the GSA schedule as hundreds of pre-negotiated contracts. Procurement managers from government agencies can view these agreements and make purchases from the GSA schedule, knowing that all legal obligations have been taken care of by GSA.

Regions

GSA conducts its business activities through 11 offices (known as GSA Regions) throughout the United States, located in: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Ft. Worth, Kansas City, Missouri, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle (Auburn), and Washington, D.C.

Region #	Region Name	Complex	Location
1	New England	Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Federal Building	Boston, MA
2	Northeast and Caribbean	Jacob K. Javits Federal Building	New York, NY
3	Mid-Atlantic	The Strawbridge Building	Philadelphia, PA
4	Southeast Sunbelt	77 Forsyth Street	Atlanta, GA
5	Great Lakes	230 South Dearborn Street	Chicago, IL
6	Heartland	Bannister Federal Complex	Kansas City, MO
7	Greater Southwest	Fritz G. Lanham Federal Building	Fort Worth, TX
8	Rocky Mountain	Denver Federal Center	Denver, CO
9	Pacific Rim	450 Golden Gate Avenue	San Francisco, CA
10	Northwest/Arctic	400 15th St. SW	Auburn, WA
11	National Capital	301 7th St. SW	Washington, DC

How will a Government Contract Benefit My Organization?

It is the Single Most Efficient Way to Do Business with the Federal Government

Having a GSA Schedule is the most efficient way to do business with the Federal Government. A Schedule provides a quick and relatively easy way to purchase its needs without the hassles and headaches associated with some of the more burdensome and complex procurement regulations. An authorized user buying off a Schedule does not have to advertise or synopsize its needs, seek further competition, or make independent determinations of fair and reasonable pricing. Furthermore authorized users can review Schedules on-line and buy on-line through the GSA Advantage! Online shopping and ordering system.

Given the relative ease of GSA Schedules, most federal purchasing agents are loathing to issue a full blown Request for Proposals. This is increasingly true as the federal government continues to make cut backs in its purchasing departments and existing resources are stretched to their limits.

As each year passes, not having a GSA Schedule makes less and less sense.

Opens the Doors to State and Local Procurements

Having a GSA Schedule also opens the door to doing business with certain States. To establish standing contract vehicles, States are increasingly trying to "piggyback" on GSA Schedule contracts. A leader in this area was California with its California Multiple Award Schedule ("CMAS") contract, which takes a vendor's GSA Schedule contract, adds a layer of California terms and conditions, and gives the contractor the opportunity to sell its commercial items to California state and local government agencies. This is no small market; if California were a free-standing, sovereign country, it would have the fifth largest Gross Domestic Product in the world. Other States going the piggyback Schedule route include Texas, Louisiana and Ohio.

Some States, such as New York, do not have a true MAS contract program like California and Texas. New York instead often use prices found in other competitively negotiated contracts. This is done on a procurement-by-procurement basis, and apparently these contracts are not available for use by other New York agencies on a regular basis. As the example of New York suggests, it is common practice for State governments to ask if a vendor has a competitively price contract for the items solicited, and the easiest, neatest example is a GSA Schedule contract. States are free to use the GSA Schedule contract as a comparison or ceiling price on the State procurement and often do so. Moreover, GSA rarely looks at an offeror's pricing to State governments when negotiating a fair and reasonable GSA Schedule contract price, so it is not uncommon for a State to insist on a price equal to or lower than the benchmark GSA Schedule contract price.

Preliminary Proposal Worksheet

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH ANY OF THE STEPS!

The road that leads to a GSA contract is often long and tricky. But, if you follow a specific course, you will find the destination you seek: your own GSA contract. This document gets you started properly down that road. To get started, let’s find out where you are on that road. These are very important minimum qualifications!

1. Has your company been in business for at least one year?

2. Do you have at least three completed projects, within the past two years, with non-federal customers? If you only have federal past performance, please let us know.

3. Have your gross sales been at least $100K?

4. Do you have at least six references? This could be one person at six different companies, two people at three companies or some other combination. Six are the minimum; ten are preferable.

5. Do you use a professional accounting system, use a CPA or use software such as QuickBooks to manage your company’s finances?

Please complete this general info request:

Contact name
Company name
Company street address
City
State
Zip code
CAGE Code**
DUNS #
Phone
Fax
E-mail
Web address*
Brief description of goods and services

*If you don’t have a Web site, create one as soon as possible.

**If you haven’t registered at www.ccr.gov, contact us for the free information form.

Now that you have all the preliminary information you need, please contact Synergy 7 at Synergy7@Gmail.com or (952) 201.7430 today.

Thank you!

Unlocking the Mysteries Of Federal Procurement

History

GSA Today

GSA Schedule

Regions

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH ANY OF THE STEPS!