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The Coast Guard meets "fixit culture"

Earlier today on NPR's morning edition, there was a story about a Netherlands-based e-bike manufacturer called VanMoof that went bankrupt. Apparently, these e-bikes are a "hipster accessory both in Europe and in the United States" that have become "famous for their sleek design and ease

Remember to read Section L

Although government solicitations can be intimidating to read, it's helpful to remember that competing for a government contract is an open-book test. If you want to win a contract, the thing to pay attention to is the solicitation. If a solicitation says that companies will be evaluated based

The perils of the inverse pump and dump

One of my not-so-secret goals of this newsletter is to bring phrases like "NAICS arbitrage" and "them's the breaks" into the daily lexicon of #govcon. In an earlier posts, I used a phrase that at the time wasn't really ready for its

Reasonableness isn't realism

Coming of age in the late '90s meant that science-fiction disaster films gave me conflicting messages about the government's sensitivity to price. In 1996's Independence Day, hyping the myth of the $600 hammer, we learned that the government is totally price insensitive: President Thomas Whitmore:

SAM-We-Are Not

I know this is going to sound obvious, but if you want to be a prime contractor with the federal government, you have to register in SAM. I know, I know. Look, I know. It sounds obvious. And I know it sounds like a pain. But we've talked