Construction Contracts Oregon Forestry In King
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In short, for your small business to serve as a prime contractor or subcontractor, you'll need to legally qualify as a small business and register as a government contractor . Then you can start looking for both prime or subcontracting opportunities with the federal government.
When the Forest Service sells timber from national forest. lands, it most often does so through a timber sale contract, “an. agreement entered into by the Forest Service and the purchaser. with specific expectations of benefits to be received and. obligations to be performed.”
But there's one catch: federal contracting is time-intensive and often intimidating. It requires extensive, sometimes painstaking steps, from registering your business to finding relevant proposals and then eventually bidding on these contracts. That said, the rewards greatly outweigh the initial investment.
To bid on federal construction contracts, you must apply for a profile on the System for Award Management (SAM). Once you've registered for this centralized online portal at SAM, you can use its search function to find federal construction bidding projects.
Federal business opportunities for contractors are listed at SAM. Government agencies are required to use SAM to advertise all contracts over $25,000.
