Winning Federal Contracts: A guide for women Entreprenuers

The SBA just launched a new online course for women to help them navigate through the contracting process.

You can access the course here: http://www.sba.gov/fedcontractingtraining/

Now women who own small businesses will be able to use the new online training course to learn how to find and win federal contracting opportunities.

The program is part of an ongoing government-wide initiative to promote opportunities for women-owned businesses in the area of government contracting.

The tuturial walks her through the the contracting process, and is free of charge. She does have to complete a short questionnaire before logging onto the tutorial.

"The SBA is committed to ensuring that women-owned businesses receive at least 5 percent of federal contracts and believes better training opportunities are central to meeting this government-wide goal." reads the press release, dated October 14th, 2009.

The course is designed to help women business owners learn about the federal procurement process and to prepare them to compete for contracting opportunities. The tutorial uses audio and script to provide information about contract rules, how to sell to the government and where to find contracts.

If you haven't taken a look at this it's worth the read.

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