There are thousands of government requests for contract bid for construction, defense, IT projects, airport, security, or service. Every state or local government agency has procurement office in charge of government business. Government contracting process involves response to Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quote (RFQ), or Request for Information (RFI). Government project and RFP are issued or advertised in the form of government notice (or notices). Business then negotiates with the government purchasing department. At the end of the negotiation, the contract is awarded. Companies (such as professional services firms and project-based companies) doing business with the government are classified as supplier (or vendors/seller), whereas the government agency (or agencies) is the buyer/purchaser.

Government procures or purchases from all businesses (small business or large enterprise alike). For example, a California or Boston company can bid on projects/contracts published by New York state government. Dollar amount (US$) for government contract award can be up to $300,000,000 ($300 million). Reports show that the United States federal government provides million-dollar business opportunities to companies in Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy, and Spain. A qualified vendor can win a large contract and be awarded millions of dollars in business opportunities.

If you like to win government contracts and sell more products or services to the United States government, check out the various federal government acquisition (federal acquisition or federal business) opportunities, federal government procurement (federal procurement), commerce department and other procurement programs. In addition, you need to get familiar with the government contract law and the terms frequently used in the b2g market places (business to government market), such as b2g exchanges, business to govt, e-gov, egov electronic government, egovernment, egovt, and gov't.

For additional information about the government contract award process, check out our government contract sources.

List of Federal Government Procurement Finder and Notification Sites

1) Government Bids
2) Bid Government Contract
3) Find Government RFP
4) Government RFQ and Project
5) Search Federal Government Contract
6) Government Contract Source