{"id":4272,"date":"2013-02-13T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T05:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/financenewmexico.5e-dev.net\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:37:53","slug":"government-contracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/resources\/specialized-assistance\/government-contracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Contracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government contracting can be a lucrative business niche for those companies that obtain appropriate certification.<!--more--> Several organizations assist businesses with becoming certified and obtaining contracts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISO 9000 training<\/strong>\u00a0is offered collaboratively by the<a title=\"NM Economic Development Department\" href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/resources\/general-business-assistance\/nm-economic-development-department\/\"> NM Economic Development Department<\/a> and <a title=\"NM Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)\" href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/resources\/workshops-resources\/manufacturing-extension-partnership-mep\/\">NM Manufacturing Extension Partnership<\/a> to prepare businesses for ISO 9001 Certification, which may be required for large contracts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procurement Technical Assistance Program<\/strong> provides individual counseling and training to enable businesses to successfully compete for government contracts. PTAP offices are part of the NM Small Business Development Center Network, with offices in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"SBDC \u2013 Albuquerque Central\" href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/sbdc-albuquerque-central\/\">Albuquerque<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"SBDC \u2013 Clovis\" href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/sbdc-at-ccc-clovis\/\">Clovis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"SBDC \u2013 Las Cruces\" href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/sbdc-las-cruces\/\">Las Cruces<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"SBDC \u2013 Santa Fe\" href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/sbdc-santa-fe\/\">Santa Fe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/category\/navigation-structure\/contracting\/getting-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)<\/a><\/strong> has a list of\u00a0several basic steps every company should complete to increase their ability to contract in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/resources\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/new-mexico-veterans-business-outreach-center\/\"><strong>New Mexico Veterans Business Outreach Center<\/strong><\/a> is operated by the\u00a0New Mexico Department of Veterans\u2019 Services, Veteran Enterprise and Training Program. The center provides individual counseling and training on all business matters and they specialize in government contracting assistance. <a href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/resources\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/new-mexico-veterans-business-outreach-center\/\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/resources\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/veterans-procurement-assistance-center-inc\/\"><strong>New Mexico Veterans Procurement Assistance Center, Inc<\/strong><\/a> provides entrepreneurial development services such as business training, counseling, procurement, and referrals to capital to New Mexico Veterans. <a href=\"http:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/resources\/other-resources-nearby-for-map\/veterans-procurement-assistance-center-inc\/\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government contracting can be a lucrative business niche for those companies that obtain appropriate certification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9710,"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/9710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financenewmexico.org\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}