21st Century Essential Guide to Federal Contracting and Acquisition - Doing Business with the Government, Selling Products and Services, Vendor and ... reference Sources (Four CD-ROM Superset) [CD-ROM]

U.S. Government (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 10, 2003

This Incredibly comprehensive superset of four CD-ROMs provides an unparalleled collection of reference sources on the complex issue of selling products and services to the federal government. There are over 140 files with full information on virtually every federal agency and department that buys products and services from business. If you plan to do any business with Uncle Sam, this up-to-date and thoroughly researched information is critical, with explanations of the arcane rules of government acquisition.

Special features of this collection:

* Vendor Business Opportunities with Synopsis Links and Solicitations Grouped by Organization and Posted Date from 2003 through 1998 (thousands of opportunities)
* Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
* How to Do Business
* Small Business Programs
* Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
* Business Opportunity Programs
* Acquisition Offices, Contracting Offices
* Central Contractor Registration
* Excluded Parties Listing System
* Commerce Business Daily Net
* GSA Getting on Schedule
* Defense Acquisition Deskbook material
* Acquisition Guidebooks and Handbooks
* Gateway for Women
* Minority Business Development Agency at the Dept. of Commerce

Some of the agencies and departments covered include:

CFTC, CNS, DHS, DOC, DOE, DOI, DOL, DOT, EPA, EXIM, USDA, FAA, FCC, FDA, FDIC, FEMA, GSA, HHS, NASA (including many field centers and departments), NIH, NRC, NSF, OSHA, SBA, STATE, TREASURY, DOD (dozens of military branches, installations, and departments), TVA, USAID, USGS, USTDA, USDOJ, VA.

In all, this set of four discs has over 139,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable. (Please note that this CD-ROM set is also available under another title as ISBN 1592482953.)

Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 139420 pages
• Publisher: Progressive Management (August 10, 2003)
• ISBN-10: 1592482961
• ISBN-13: 978-1592482962
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,110,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Garbage/ Horrible Product/ I'm sending it back!!!, December 24, 2004

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L. Bonds (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 21st Century Essential Guide to Federal Contracting and Acquisition - Doing Business with the Government, Selling Products and Services, Vendor and ... reference Sources (Four CD-ROM Superset) (CD-ROM)

Since no one has ever provide feedback for this CD-ROM collection, allow me to be the first. To date, I've been VERY happy with the vast majority of purchases I've made from Amazon.com, but "21st Century Essential Guide to Federal Contracting and Acquisition" is the WORST purchase I have ever made (hands down). First, the title is complete nonesense... it is not a guide at all. As proof, you might scroll up the page a bit and look at the product details section for this product. It says it's "139420 pages". The reason is the entire 4-set of CD-ROMs is little more than screen shots of government web sites. You can just as easily visit the government web site yourself and get current information. The CDs are a collection of pdf files... nothing more. You have a plain vanilla "content.pdf" file for each CD that tells you what the other umpteen million PDF files are. Classic examples of "contents" are "mil_af_arnold.pdf, Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Center 3,885 pages". The reason there's 3,885 pages is its someones query of every single contracting document in the Arnold AFB archive, which spans 3,885 pages. THis is NOT information about "doing business with the Government" or "Selling Products and Services" to the government" as the title clearly states. Look closely at the image if the CD cover. The bullet statements say, "Full Information on over 100 agencies"... visit their respective web sites and click on their "about us" link... you get better information. It also says, "Current Vendor SOlicitations"... i.e. current when they took the screen shot and spanned it across 139,420 pages". The last bullet says "Easy-to-use Reference Sources"... I hold a Master's Degree and pride myself on having a slight capacity for abstract thought. Trust me when I say this product is NOT "Easy-to-use". It's not worth your time to look at the CD contents, much less the $2.49 for shipping. Suffice it to say, you will blow $34 on a garbage product. Thank goodness Amazon.com has a 30-day return policy... I'll be sending this back first thing tomorrow morning. By the way, I bought "Federal Contracting Made Easy" by Scott A. Stanberry. That book is jam packed with the types of pertainent information you might expect from these CD's. My recommendation is to buy Stanberry's book and leave these CD's alone (Ye be warned!)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another warning - avoid this purchase - wasted money., August 18, 2006

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Abraham T. (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 21st Century Essential Guide to Federal Contracting and Acquisition - Doing Business with the Government, Selling Products and Services, Vendor and ... reference Sources (Four CD-ROM Superset) (CD-ROM)

Well, I thought I'd purchase this CD collection in hopes of learning much more about contracting... Problem is, most of the data on these CD's are way outdated (2003), so more than likely when you click on a link in the pdf files you'll come up with a dead link. quite frustrating. Another issue that bothered me was that the data DOES (as the previous reviewer mentioned) is simply provide screen shots to government websites. Um, WHY the hell would you want to pay for outdated info when you can visit the sites directly and get correct info...

Anyhow, my advice matches the previous reviewers...AVOID this purchase. Do the research yourself.