Federal Contracting Foundations gives you a clear, step-by-step roadmap to enter the world of government contracting. Learn how to register on SAM.gov, identify your NAICS codes, find real opportunities, read solicitations, and submit strong bids—even with no past performance. This course is perfect for small, minority, and women-owned businesses ready to become contract-ready and confidently compete in the federal marketplace.

1️⃣ What “Contract-Ready” Actually Means (Plain English)

3️⃣ Minimum Requirements This course will prepare you with ESSENTIALS needed to begin the bidding process

This course will provide information about Set-Asides- You will be able to identify what your set-asides are and where to locate them.

This course will provide detailed information on the roles of a Prime and Sub Contractor.

Your reference library. Agency directory, federal contracting glossary, registration links and the checklists you'll come back to again and again as you get contract-ready.

Done-for-you documents you can edit and use immediately. Start with the capability statement template — it's the single document every contracting officer will ask you for.

Solicitations look intimidating until someone shows you where to look. Learn the anatomy of an RFQ, RFP and IFB, what Sections A through M contain, how to find the evaluation criteria, and how to spot a deal-breaker before you waste a week on it.

The full bid process from decision to submission. Go/no-go framework, pricing your bid, building the response package, submitting through SAM.gov and agency portals, and the common mistakes that get bids thrown out before anyone reads them.

Stop chasing every opportunity. Choose your lane, target the right agencies, position yourself when you have no past performance, and use teaming and subcontracting to win work you couldn't win alone.

Where to find suppliers, how to get quotes that hold, and how to price so you actually make money. Includes full breakdowns of real bids, line by line.

Every Gold workshop and live implementation call, recorded and organized. Miss one, or want to revisit it, it's here.

Advanced resources included with your Gold membership. Vendor and supplier lists, solicitation checklists, and reference material for active bidders.

Bid checklist, pricing worksheet, go/no-go scorecard and past performance sheet. Edit and use on your next opportunity.

Your Gold members' space. Ask questions, share what you're bidding on, and get feedback from members working at the same level as you.

Bring a live solicitation and work through it together. We read it, break it down, and build the response strategy in the session. This is where learning turns into submitted bids.

Recorded walkthroughs of real solicitations from start to finish. See exactly how an experienced eye reads, evaluates and responds to an opportunity.

You won. Now what? Contract performance, compliance requirements, invoicing through WAWF and getting paid on time, and how to scale beyond your first award.

How your small-group coaching works, the office hours schedule, and the accountability tools that keep you moving when other things get loud.

Advanced resources included with your Diamond membership. Implementation tools, compliance references and higher-level material.

Proposal shell and compliance matrix. The documents you need once you're responding to larger solicitations.

Your Diamond members' space. Priority questions, direct access, and a small room of people building seriously.