Lee Dougherty will be presenting at the monthly meeting of the Small Business Development Consortium (SBDC).

The Small Business Development Consortium (SBDC) is a group of motivated, like-minded Small Businesses serving the Federal Government.

Currently there are over 70 Small Business members of the SBDC. They range in size from 2 employees to over 350. The services and products they provide is vast, ranging from cloud computing to graphics design to freight transportation and even information assurance.

The purpose of the SBDC is to:

Establish a formal, small business consortium that richly represents our individual and collective capacity to support multiple federal government mission needs.

SDBC Core Goals & and their Objectives:

• Identify and win government contracts
• Understand fellow small businesses desiring federal government contracts
• Develop and maintain individual member knowledge base
• Develop and maintain aggregate member knowledge base
• Develop and maintain a small business opportunity common operating picture
• Develop Business Relationships within the Consortium
• Leverage collective business develop assets to identify and pursue viable opportunities
• Influence and increase federal government small business procurements
• Inform federal government customers of the consortium
• Improve federal government customer understanding and perception of small business capacity
• Increase federal government customer confidence in small business capabilities
• Engage with government and elected officials
• Achieve Consortium critical mass membership
• Recruit value adding members
• Retain active members
• Share small business best practices
• Improve individual member business operations
• Improve individual member balance sheets

PRESENTATION

On May 12th I will speak on “The Proper Use of Joint Ventures and Teaming Agreements in Federal Contracts”

Topics will include:

• What is a Teaming Arrangement?
• Why form a Team?
• What is a Teaming Agreement ?
• What is the difference between a Teaming Agreement and a Contractor Team Arrangement?
• What is a JV?
• When should you use each?
• What to consider when entering a Teaming Agreement?
• Questions

Consider joining the SBDC and come hear this valuable presentation on a often misunderstood topic in government contracting.