Recovery.gov launches

Posted in: Blog, Business of Government on September 29, 2009

For the last few months, the federal government’s stimulus-tracking Web site has been attacked by critics who argued that a private sector effort by Onvia called recovery.org has been doing a better job.

With a relaunch this week of the official www.recovery.gov site, the Feds are now competitive again. The new Web site features an easy-to-use map that lets you zoom in and click on green, blue, and pink dots that represent where contracts, grants, and loans from the $787 billion stimulus legislation are ending up.

One of the interesting things to note is that grants spending is more than 11 times greater than contracts spending. As of September 19^th, there has been $12 billion in contracts and over $141 billion in loans, all directly from recovery funds. The spending isn’t slowing down either. There have also been over 17,000 new solicitations posted in the last 30 days alone.

Bidspeed Official Launch

Posted in: Blog, News on September 28, 2009

Costa Mesa, CA – September 29, 2009– NetQuarry, netquarry.com, the leading enterprise development platform for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, has launched Bidspeed, fedbidspeed.com, the first web-based opportunity management system directly integrated with FedBizOpps, the Federal Government’s official procurement site for all contract opportunities over $25,000.

According to company President and Co-founder Ryan Reid, “Bidspeed is specifically designed to help small and medium-sized companies bid on and win government contracts. There will never be a better time than now to sell your product or service to the US Government, and BidSpeed improves your chances of winning the contracts.”

“Bidspeed helps your entire company collaborate on the bidding process in real time via a streamlined, efficient, web-based software tool,” adds Cam Woods, COO and co-founder of Bidspeed.

Woods explains, “BidSpeed helps companies manage the avalanche of information: so many opportunities but so many people, phone calls, emails, notes, documents, follow-ups and tasks. What IS this opportunity again? Who are the responsible contracting officers? What did we last talk about? Who else is working on this? What’s next? Bidspeed keeps track of it all.”

About Bidspeed:

Bidspeed is an easy to use web-based opportunity management system integrated with FedBizOpps and specifically designed for winning government contracts.

About NetQuarry:

NetQuarry is the leading SaaS infrastructure platform based on Microsoft .NET. NetQuarry helps developers build secure, highly scalable SaaS applications in less time with significantly lower risk. Since 2005, NetQuarry-powered web applications currently service hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

For more information on obtaining a free trial subscription to Bidspeed or for a live demonstration of the NetQuarry SaaS development platform, visit www.fedbidspeed.com or www.netquarry.com.

House adopts stopgap spending measure

Posted in: Blog, Business of Government on

The House adopted a stopgap measure Friday, Sept. 25, that will keep government agencies funded through the end of October and buy Congress time to finish its annual spending work.

The new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, but Congress has not yet cleared any of the fiscal 2010 appropriations bills. The legislation passed Friday — known as a continuing resolution (CR) — would prevent a government shutdown. The CR, which will last through Oct. 31, was added to the conference agreement on the fiscal 2010 Legislative Branch spending bill.

The conference report was adopted on a 217-190 vote. The Senate probably will take up the legislation Sept. 29.

The bill also would prevent the nation’s highway programs from expiring, and it would free up funds for the Postal Service by lowering the payment it must make into a trust fund intended for future retiree health benefits, to $1.4 billion from $5.4 billion in fiscal 2009.

Republicans were critical of Democrats’ decision to include the CR in the Legislative Branch bill because it prevents them from being able to offer amendments to the stopgap bill.

They also seized on the somewhat ironic fact that the first fiscal 2010 spending bill to be enacted will be the one funding Congress’ own budget while the rest of the government is still waiting for its funding.

Bidspeed Partner Program

Posted in: Blog, News on September 4, 2009

If you currently consult with companies that are selling or trying to sell to the Federal Government then you should consider a Bidspeed partnership.

Bidspeed (www.fedbidspeed.com) is an opportunity management system that is directly integrated with FedBizOpps. Its web-based software that puts a simple process around finding, managing, and winning government deals. A process that your customers can benefit from.

If your customers use FedBizOpps then your customers need Bidspeed. It helps manage and win government deals.

Here’s how it works:

• We provide you with a referral code that you can give to your customers or use on your website.
• When your customer signs up using the referral code they receive a discount.
• After your customer makes their first payment (there is a 30-day free trial), you start making money. We share a percentage of the entire first year’s revenue with you.

If you have any questions please contact us at 877.663.9043 or send us an email at partnership@fedbidspeed.com