Business Opportunities are Available under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009*
The ARRA initiatives are creating a flood of new infrastructure projects – With most of these projects comes the need for administrative facilities that include interior and exterior finishing that require architectural woodwork, custom casework, stairs, paneling, countertops, and more. Federal and state governments need contractors – like you – to build them all!
The ARRA awards federal funding to agencies and states to use as they see fit. Here are some strategies that can help you win projects funded by federal or state agencies under ARRA:
· Regularly check www.recovery.gov and other web sites for news of ARRA infrastructure projects accepting bids.
· Bid on local projects close to home. Show any projects that you have been approved for in the state or town.
· Increase your visibility. Step up your public relations efforts. Highlight each successful project completion and each new contract win.
· Be aware of reporting requirements you have to comply with as well as any unusual aspects of these awards to keep compliant with the stimulus plan’s stipulations.
· Contact the state and municipal agencies you have worked with in the past. This can give you an edge over bidders the agency has not worked with before. This can get on the agency’s short list even before the project announcement is made.
· Differentiate your firm’s technology, skill, and experience.
· Visit www.fedbizopps.com regularly and read the pre-solicitation notices posted on the site.
· Highlight your firm’s specialized equipment, unique skill sets of key team members, and any advanced technology you use that can help accelerate progress or reduce costs.
ETemplate’s Advanced Technology Will Give Your Firm an Edge in Winning ARRA Projects.
· Contractors need to cut costs to the bone. And one often-neglected cost-cutting measure is improving the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of project measurements. Increasing the efficiency and accuracy of your measurements can help you control costs, prevent waste, and eliminate costly errors that result in delays and add expense that erodes your margin.
· It provides a modern, high-speed, ultra-precision data capture system to ensure rapid and correct results. Greater precision, enabled by ETemplate’s state-of-the-art technology, saves time and money.
· When implementing ETemplate’s measurement technology, your bid for an ARRA project (or any other) can reflect the time and cost savings the technology provides.
· ETemplate’s precision measuring/templating with accuracy verification at the job site enables immediate detection of errors or omissions so design plans can be modified before construction begins.
· ETemplate’s superior accuracy and quality controls enables you to complete the contract faster, more accurately, and with minimal wasted material. Government contracts are most often fixed-price, not time and materials. That means fewer hours that your crews spend in the field and a higher profit margin on the job.
The Next Step
ETemplate’s state-of-the-art digital field measuring system can give you a competitive advantage for bidding, winning, and building ARRA-funded projects. Contact us today and let us explain and demonstrate how ETemplate will make you a more competitive bidder when competing for ARRA projects.
Keep Up to Date on New ARRA Projects You Can Bid On
You can find infrastructure projects funded by the ARRA online at these sites:
Official ARRA web site
www.recovery.gov
General information on ARRA
www.propublica.org
State-specific stimulus information
www.agc.org/stimulus
Federal Business Opportunities
www.fbo.gov
* Portions of this explanation are extracted from, “The New Infrastructure Boom Market Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”, courtesy of Leica Geosystems.
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