mikeweiland

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by mikeweiland 5y ago
Agreed on all accounts. Slowly but surely we'll start gather the State / Local / Education level opportunities in our long road to be the unifying platform. In the end we do want a more efficient government and if that is se
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
Makes total sense.
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
Thanks - Unnecessarily complicated and contrary to what the government wants people to believe, it is not transparent.
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
That is a great tag line and I completely agree.
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
No worries. First answer, we agree the headline is a bit contrived. We’ll blame the 80 character limit :) This is a very complicated industry as you know. We do make it easier to find opportunities, run analytics on buying trends, manufact
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
Not cynical. We agree and to a great extent it would be nice to participate in the reform, though knowing how the gov works, it'll be a few generations from now. It would be nice to aid or even 'be' a platform that the gove
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
I couldn't agree more. The GWAC / IDIQ referenced above attempts to do both (increase competition with pre-qualified companies and limit the number of primes that have access) but in the end it's still a limiter to competiti
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
This is great - I've caught myself saying 'Lovely Govly' out loud a few times...
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
I bet what you built is still in play with a those companies - The systems haven't changed much (if at all). We are starting to pull in award data and amassing the database of historical awards, customers, locations, etc. Mix that wit
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
It has been a long road and an even longer road ahead. The system needs some modernization and we are just a piece of the complicated puzzle.
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
We did not - good idea though!
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
That's super interesting! If you (or anyone) knows the name, I'd love to read about it.
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by mikeweiland 5y ago
There is significant growth in what are call GWAC and IDIQ contacts (these are basically avenues to sell to any agency in the government under the guise that the government doesn’t know what it wants to buy [yet] but that it is going to buy
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Launch HN: Govly (YC S21) – Making it easier to sell to the U.S. government
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