There is a strong and growing trend towards Public Private Partnerships (P3s) where government agencies are working with the private sector to fund, develop and maintain large public projects related to transportation, education and healthcare.

Public Officials are finding P3s an attractive option for funding large, critically needed public projects. These P3s are helping align public and private needs to move vital projects forward. They have the potential to significantly change the landscape of government contracting and create a new environment for collaboration.

In 1989, when the Internet was still cloaked in the relative obscurity of ARPANet, Richard Saul Wurman (founder of the TED talks) published a book that became my bible, Information Anxiety. I was an information broker at the time searching the cavernous online databases of Dialog and LexisNexis providing businesses with competitive intelligence. The tagline for my company was “Information you need, when you need it, and not a minute beforehand.”

We are seeing increased spending at the state and local level so now is a great time to take advantage of new government contracting opportunities. Many of our clients are developing key relationships with agencies to help them create project specifications. As a result, clients are often winning more contracts.

A key to this success is finding the agencies that are planning projects that may use your products or services. We can show you how to make the connections.

Following our webinar, Three Essentials to State and Local Contracting, we had a number of questions that we were not able to answer in the time allotted. Below is a summary of the questions and the presenters' answers.

The recorded session and slides from the webinar can be reviewed here >

Sequestration imposes mandatory across-the-board spending cuts to defense and discretionary domestic programs. Federal agencies ranging from Bureau of Prisons to the Internal Revenue Service and the National Institutes of Health are drawing up a mix of unpaid furloughs, hiring freezes, reduced grants and other measures to cut tightened budgets.