The Federal Start Guidebook
A step-by-step manual for your first year selling to federal agencies: the registrations, the profiles buyers search, the dollar thresholds that decide how an agency can buy from you, and the first opportunities worth pursuing, with screenshots of each system.
Buy nowState & Local Procurement Guidebook
How each state buys, where to register, and how cities, counties, and school districts post their bids. Includes a directory of every state's procurement portal and small-business certification program, how each state's rules set small-purchase limits, how cooperative contracts let one award serve hundreds of buyers, and registration playbooks for local governments.
Buy nowCertifications Guidebook
Which small-business certifications exist at the federal level (8(a), WOSB, SDVOSB, HUBZone) and at the state level (MWBE, HUB, SWaM, DBE, SBE), who qualifies for each, what documents each application requires, and the order to file them in so the useful one arrives first.
Buy nowCapability Statement Kit
A capability statement is the one-page company summary contracting officers ask for before anything else. The kit explains what belongs on it and why each section matters, then gives you three editable Word layouts (federal buyer, state and local buyer, prime contractor), a private evidence worksheet, and a release checklist to build your own.
Buy nowProposal Templates Library
The working documents you need to answer a government solicitation: a compliance matrix that maps every requirement to your response so nothing is missed, proposal outlines, past performance write-ups that reviewers can score, a pricing sheet, a cover letter, and a template for the questions you send the agency before you bid.
Buy nowTeaming & Subcontracting Guidebook
Most new companies win their first federal work as a subcontractor to a larger prime contractor. This guidebook explains how teaming works, how to find and approach primes, what a teaming agreement should say, and how joint ventures and the SBA Mentor-Protégé program let a small firm compete for larger contracts.
Buy nowThe complete guidebook library
Every guidebook and template on this page, updated each year as dollar thresholds, portals, and certification rules change.
Buy the libraryGuidebooks are licensed to one business for its own use. Chambers, lenders, and agencies that want copies for the businesses they serve can ask about partner licensing on the group programs page.
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Pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or bank transfer, or over time with Klarna or Afterpay where offered. Files arrive by email the moment your payment goes through, with a download link that works for 30 days, and every purchase comes with the update edition. Every guidebook and template sale is final: delivered at once, with no cancellation window and no refund, credit, or exchange.
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Choose the guidebook that matches where you are. Each comes with its templates and two years of update editions.
Choose a guidebookAll six guidebooks
Every guidebook and template, with updates for as long as the library exists.
Buy the libraryStart right bundle
The Federal Start and State & Local guidebooks, a readiness review of your registrations, and a strategy session.
Buy the bundlePrefer a guided version?
The Launch Cohort and the six-session build include every guidebook and course, with someone across the table.