Month: February 2022

Welcome to the Govcon giants podcast. I am your host, Eric Coffie and in today’s podcast episode we cover a lot of territory; bid no bid decision framework, sources sought, capability briefing debriefing, how i won an IDIQ from another firm and why they lost it – PLUS two must know FAR clauses.

This entire 90 minute episode is centered around two FAR clauses:

FAR 15.201 Exchanges with industry before receipt of proposals and FAR Part 10 – Market Research.

FAR 15.201 Exchanges with industry before receipt of proposals

So this entire episode is predicated on the two clauses we just covered but with more Excitement, more vigor and my quirky personality.

Just a quick reminder, at the end we will be sharing a piece of government contract history that you don’t want to miss out. So stay until the end for the quick piece of Govcon trivia.

Now that you have context for the conversation sit up, buckle up and get ready for the ride.

Today’s guest, Chrissy Farrington is a military spouse and senior proposal specialist at H2L solutions. For those who may remember back to episode #40 H2L solutions CEO Jonathan Hard came on to our show and shed light on CMMC and NIST requirements.

She is also the Co-Founder of Spouse 360, a non-profit organization dedicated to reigniting the traditions of the past while building the Military Family’s future.

In our show today, Chrissy brings her own unique voice to the show discussing the role she plays in the helping position H2L for future success, an outsider view of the world of federal procurement and sheds light on issues that face military spouses around the world.

Also, about mid way through she shares a free resource that even I didn’t know existed for military spouses, which led to her landing the position with H2L. As a former teacher she offers a fresh perspective to a procurement world that so many of us call normal. It is great to hear outside views on how we can improve and provide access to so many more small businesses in the federal arena.

I want to welcome our next Giant, Chrissy Farrington

Today’s interview, we feature Mr. Austin G. Johnson also known as AJ who is the Deputy Associate Director of the Marine Corps Systems Command out of the infamous Quantico, Virginia.

This episode is a little bit different than our traditional podcast guests because we are interviewing the associate director of the small businesses, Mr. AJ himself and he is going to describe to us what his command does, what they buy, how they buy and also how you can participate in supporting their particular sub agency.

Now for some context, the Marine Corps System Command is a 2500 person organization and they spend 2 billion dollars per year. One famous or well known project they have is the MRAP Vehicle.

As an organization they have over 220 contracting officers and 200 program managers supporting that 2 Billion dollar per year, so let’s tune in to the episode with our next giant, Mr. Austin G. Johnson.