Contracting intelligence for small and minority-owned businesses, from the TIKC advisory team.
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The Pentagon awarded Oracle a $6.99 billion, 10-year IDIQ on July 23 — the largest single software consolidation contract in DoD history. Here is what…
Secretary Hegseth’s ban on military attendance at Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Princeton, Brown and 17 other universities takes effect this fall as the 2026-2027 academic…
The House passed the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act on July 22 — $1.15 trillion in national security spending, a renamed Department of War, and…
The federal fiscal year ends September 30 — and agencies are racing to spend remaining FY2026 dollars right now. Q4 is the single best opportunity…
A $10 billion defense industrial investment wave, 30+ expansion announcements, and multiyear munitions buys worth $12.6 billion — the defense production surge is real, and…
SAM, UEI, NAICS, RFP, IDIQ, 8(a) — federal contracting runs on alphabet soup. Here are the 40 government contracting acronyms every new contractor needs, organized…
NAICS codes are the six-digit numbers that determine which federal opportunities match your business, whether you count as ‘small,’ and which set-aside competitions you can…
A $21.3 million settlement, a $240 million rent-a-vet conviction, and whistleblowers walking away with millions — inside the SDVOSB fraud crackdown of 2026, what the…
The federal government buys nearly $800 billion a year — and there’s a learnable, 90-day path from Main Street business to registered, certified, bid-ready federal…
From opportunity monitoring to RFP analysis to proposal drafting — how small government contractors are actually using AI in 2026, the five use cases that…
The federal government buys nearly $800 billion in goods and services every year — and finding those opportunities is a learnable skill. SAM.gov, DSBS, agency…
Every federal contract moves through the same lifecycle — forecasting, market research, solicitation, evaluation, award, performance, and closeout. Understanding where you can influence each stage…