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Government Contracting (GovC) Wiki
About
The US Government is the world's largest consumer of goods and services, and offers great potential and opportunities for companies. The US Government also has the most complex rules, regulations, and laws governing these purchases of goods and services. The myriad of rules and regulations can bewilder even the most experienced professional.
Selling to the US Government requires an understanding of these laws and regulations both from a compliance perspective, and business perspective. I learned early in my career, some 35+ years ago, it is not possible for anyone to retain all the details of every aspect of US Government Procurement, and in order to be effective, a resource or database of vast information would need to be available. This site captures all topics and issues I have learned over the years and is available to the public.
GovCwiki, is a resource and knowledge source to help navigate the numerous Government Regulations and guide individuals through US Government Compliance requirements such as Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARs) requirements.
As of 4/30/2019 there is 3137 pages in this wiki. There is 316 Categories. Knowing how to navigate this wiki, if paramount to getting the full benefit of it.
There are navigation panels on the left, however, there is much, much more in addition to the navigation panels on the left.
Don't see a topic you are interested in, search in the search bar on the upper right of any page.
The site is organized by Categories, Sub-Categories, and pages. A Category, is the highest level grouping. It may or may not contain pages. A subcategory is the next level down, and will contain pages, as this is the lowest level. In navigating this site, start with the Category, look at the pages within the Category, and also look to see if there are subcategories.
The idea is this. You start with a broad topic (Category), then look at pages and subcategories with that main Category, and filter through, until you find the topic that interest you.
For instance, if you go to the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) navigation pane on the left, you will see that you can select a particular standard. If you select CAS 401 - Consistency in Estimating, Accumulating, and Reporting Costs, what comes up is the Category main page.
http://www.govcwiki.org/index.php?title=Category:Cost_Accounting_Standards_(CAS)
If you scroll to the bottom, and select the Category: "CAS 401: Consistency in Estimating, Accumulating, and Reporting Costs, you will "Pages" within that category. In this case, you can see the preambles to CAS 401. Larger categories have subcategories, smaller ones, have pages.
Links
Throughout the site there are links to get you where you need to get. For instance, you are asked who your ACO is, and you don't know what ACO stands for. You can click on the navigation panel on the left, "Acronyms", and here is what you would see, after scroll down to ACO.
ACO - Administrative Contracting Officer
You can click on this page, and understand more, and understand how to find out who your Administrative Contractor Officer is. On that page is a snipit of a Standard Form (SF) 1155. Within that page, is a link to GSA, that will then link you to a site, whereas you can pull up the entire form.