@performancecontracts: Submitting bid after bid while randoms pull contracts? It's not your business. It's this one thing. 1. You are bidding on the wrong size work. You are going after the big sexy contracts instead of the small simplified acquisitions under $250k that have way less competition and get awarded fast. Start small and stack wins. 2. You are only watching one place. The opportunity that fits you perfectly is sitting on a state portal or a local agency site while you refresh SAM all day. Pursue federal, state, and local at the same time so you always have something live. 3. You are submitting incomplete. One missing form, one wrong certification, one skipped attachment and you are tossed before anyone even reads your price. Read the solicitation twice and build a checklist for every bid. 4. You are taking too long. By the time you have the perfect polished bid the deadline passed or someone faster grabbed it. Submit when it is good enough, not when it is perfect. Speed wins more than polish. The wins are not luck. There is a system, and the people beating you are running one. For the full thing, grab the system.
