Department of the Navy:
Doing Business With the Navy
Powerpoint Version
RDML (sel) Marty Brown
Presented in Arlington, TX
July 25, 2003
This presentation, although focused on small businesses, provides an excellent overview of the steps any firm can follow to do business with the Department of the Navy. It identifies many resources available via the World Wide Web.
Navy Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (SADBU)
http://www.hq.navy.mil/sadbu/
This site is intended to familiarize small firms with Navy and Marine Corps contracting centers, acquisition proceedings, and to provide data that may enable them to identify potential Navy and Marine Corps markets for products and services that they may wish to introduce.
Navy Inventory Control Point Small Business Office
http://www.navicp.navy.mil/006/sbhome.htm
This is the small business office at the Naval Inventory Control Point's (NAVICP) web site. NAVICP manages the Navy inventory of spare parts and components that have unique application to Naval aircraft, aircraft weapons systems, and related maintenance and test equipment.
Navy Exchange System (NEX)
http://www.navy-nex.com
This web site provides information on quality goods and services at a savings and to support quality of life programs. The retail stores and many services offered by Navy Exchange Service Command makes it an important quality of life benefit to customers?active duty, family members, retirees, national guard, and reservists?around the world, both ashore and at sea. Within the Navy Exchange System are five primary business units. These include Navy Exchange retail stores and services, Navy Lodges, the Navy Uniform Program, the Ship Store Program, and Telecommunications.
ITEC Direct
http://itec-direct.navy.mil
The Information Technology Electronic Commerce (ITEC) program provides commercially available, Department of Navy (DON) standard compliant Information Technology (IT) products and services. ITEC Direct leverages technology to give Department of Defense (DoD) customers a fast and easy way to electronically locate, compare, and order IT hardware, software and services.
DoN Small Business Innovation Research
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sbir/
This site provides information on how to participate in the Department of the Navy's SBIR program. The SBIR program funds research and development projects at small technology companies. The projects funded serve a DoN need and are expected to have commercial applications.
DoN Marketing Info
http://www.hq.navy.mil/sadbu/marketing.htm
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization - Marketing the Navy
Navy Electronic Commerce Online (NECO)
http://www.neco.navy.mil/
This site is your link to the world of Navy Electronic Business Opportunities. It is the centerpiece of the Navy's strategy to convert to paperless processes in accordance with the DoD direction. All Navy business opportunities are either on this site or linked to it.
NAPS
http://development.dynsys.com/abm_backup/naps/index.html
Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement
Department of Defense:
Doing Business with the Department of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/other_info/business.html
This powerful search engine site provides links to the Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Office, Defense Logistics Agency and other resources for selling to the military agencies.
Mentor Protégé Program (MPP)
http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/mentor_protege/index.htm
This site provides information to large businesses who wish to participate in the program as mentors and small businesses and others who wish to participate as protégés.
DoD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/
The SBIR program funds research and development projects at small technology companies. The projects funded serve a DoD need and are expected to have commercial applications. This web site describes the program.
Subcontracting Opportunities
http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/publications/subdir/index.html
The publication exclusively addresses the defense subcontracting opportunities market. The DoD encourages small business and small disadvantaged business to enter the defense subcontracting market. By entering the market, goods and services flow to strengthen national security and the defense industrial base.
DoD Small Business Specialists
http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/publications/sbs/sbs.html
The Military Services and Defense Agencies have contracting offices located throughout the United States. Each service and agency has an Office of the Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. They also have small business specialists at each of their procurement and contract management offices to assist small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, and women-owned small businesses firms in marketing their products and services with the DoD. These specialists provide information and guidance on (1) defense procurement procedures, (2) how to be placed on the solicitation mailing lists, and (3) how to identify prime contract and subcontract opportunities.
DoD BusOpps website
http://www.dodbusopps.com/general/gettingstarted.asp
DoDBusOpps.com is an electronic portal for vendors to identify business opportunities within the DoD Components. This site indexes open and active solicitation data from multiple sources (US Army via their Single Face to Industry site, the US Air Force via FedBizOpps, the Defense Logistics Agency via their Procurement Gateway, and the US Navy via their Navy Electronic Commerce Online (NECO) web site, among others), providing a central source for over 70% of the Defense Department?s opportunities.
CCR
http://www.ccr.gov/
Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is a single database of basic business information from contractors that want to do business with the Department of Defense (DoD). Contractors MUST be registered in CCR in order to do business with the Department of Defense.
DoD Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/
This website contains information on DoD programs that benefit small businesses and DoD business opportunities.
DFARS
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dp/dars/dfars.html
Defense FAR Supplement
Other Government Sites:
U.S. Business Advisor
http://www.business.gov
This Small Business Administration's search engine site provides on-line, one-stop access to government forms, business development software & business sector oriented information.
Federal Acquisition Jumpstation
http://nais.nasa.gov/fedproc/home.html
Provides over 100 hotlinks to federal contracting activities and other sources of federal procurement information throughout the United States.
Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) Listing
http://www.dla.mil/db/procurem.htm
The DLA administers on behalf of the Secretary of Defense the DoD PTA Cooperative Agreement Program under which Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTACs) provide assistance to business firms that want to sell goods and/or services to Federal, state and local governments.
U.S. Small Business Administration
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov
The U.S. Small Business Administration, established in 1953, provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses.
FedBizOpps website
http://www.fedbizopps.gov/
FedBizOpps has been designated as the single source for federal government procurement opportunities that exceed $25,000.
Selling to the Government.net
http://sellingtothegovernment.net/ptac_map.asp
This page provides a list of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers organized by state.
U.S. Small Business Administration Subcontracting Network (SBA SUB-Net)
http://web.sba.gov/subnet
SUB-Net lists notices of subcontracting opportunities.
Federal Supply Service
http://www.fss.gsa.gov
GSA?s Federal Supply Service provides federal customers with the products, services and programs to meet their supply, service, procurement, vehicle purchasing and leasing, travel and transportation and personal property management requirements.
GSA SmartPay
http://www.fss.gsa.gov/services/gsa-smartpay/
GSA Smartpay allows Federal Agencies to pay for commercial goods and services as well as travel and fleet related expenses with leading-edge card services.
Federal Supply Classification
http://www.dlis.dla.mil/h2/
The Federal Supply Classification site provides a searchable list of all Federal Supply Codes.
D&B Universal Numbering System
http://www.dnb.com/us/
The D&B D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit identification sequence, which provides unique identifiers of single business entities, while linking corporate family structures together.
Defense Logistics Information Service - Cage Code
http://www.dlis.dla.mil/cage_welcome.asp
This site is a search engine for the Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code system.
FAR
http://www.arnet.gov/far
Federal Acquisition Regulation Web Site
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
http://www.sba.gov
The SBA's goal is to "aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small business concerns." This website is a great resource for small businesses. It provides a variety of information, such as how to start a small business and where to find business opportunities.
SBA PRO-Net
http://pro-net.sba.gov
Pro-Net, the Small Business Administration-sponsored Procurement Marketing and Access Network, is an electronic gateway of procurement information -- for and about small businesses. It is a search engine for contracting officers, a marketing tool for small firms and a "link" to procurement opportunities and important information. It is designed to be a "virtual" one-stop-procurement-shop.
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