07-19-2011, 02:17 PM
Since a lot of you all work on various contracts for the government, or other organizations I thought I would make a post here.
Lately my mind has been wandering on going out on my own to find work, but I am not exactly sure where to start looking. Have any of you ever explored this before, or known anyone who did?
This all started last year when I switched jobs. I brought some work in the door to my current company. This was complicated as shit on our side, and eventually went to the wayside. A few months ago, some more related work comes in the door via a co-worker. I am the one for the job. I write up the proposal , get everything ready to go, and once again our contracts department bungles the delivery of the proposal materials, delivering an incomplete package that cost us the conrtract. I believe the denial email read "We liked what was written here, but a full evaluation cannot be completed because of X, Y, Z missing, and we are going to down-select to another bidder"
So all of this has left a bitter taste in my mouth that two contracts worth over a year of work and at least a few hundred thousand dollars has gotten bungled. These projects were actually projects I'd want to work on, as well.
Because of this I have been having serious thoughts on trying to start my own (LLC, corp, what?) and going for some contracts on my own. Of course the first line is reaching back with contacts I have in industry and going from there, but where else do you look? I am not all that familiar with much of the process, but I know somewhat about various aspects of what is expected as part of actually submitting the proposal. I know next to nothing about the legal aspects of creating the actual contract after winning, etc .
Lately my mind has been wandering on going out on my own to find work, but I am not exactly sure where to start looking. Have any of you ever explored this before, or known anyone who did?
This all started last year when I switched jobs. I brought some work in the door to my current company. This was complicated as shit on our side, and eventually went to the wayside. A few months ago, some more related work comes in the door via a co-worker. I am the one for the job. I write up the proposal , get everything ready to go, and once again our contracts department bungles the delivery of the proposal materials, delivering an incomplete package that cost us the conrtract. I believe the denial email read "We liked what was written here, but a full evaluation cannot be completed because of X, Y, Z missing, and we are going to down-select to another bidder"
So all of this has left a bitter taste in my mouth that two contracts worth over a year of work and at least a few hundred thousand dollars has gotten bungled. These projects were actually projects I'd want to work on, as well.
Because of this I have been having serious thoughts on trying to start my own (LLC, corp, what?) and going for some contracts on my own. Of course the first line is reaching back with contacts I have in industry and going from there, but where else do you look? I am not all that familiar with much of the process, but I know somewhat about various aspects of what is expected as part of actually submitting the proposal. I know next to nothing about the legal aspects of creating the actual contract after winning, etc .
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