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Good morning all,

Happy Monday, 25 August 2025!  Twenty-six (26) working days until the end of Fiscal Year 2025!

Solicitations will be posted rapidly and daily during these final 26 days, so you should be checking the System for Award Management and GSA EBuy daily.

There are many of business development events coming up in the Fall as well.  Make sure you are checking the websites for:  local chambers of commerce, the North Carolina Military Business Center (www.ncmbc.us), the Small Business Technology Development Center (www.sbtdc.org) and your local business support groups for all these events. 

As always if you have any questions on being eligible and competitive for Department of Defense contracts, please e-mail me at chris.rabassi@usmc.mil

For construction companies, please contact Naval Facilities Systems Engineering Command (NAVFAC), the Army Corps of Engineers or Hunt Companies.  NAVFAC/USACE have the contract authority for all military construction and related services, and you can find points of contact at https://business.defense.gov/.  

Hunt has the contract for all family housing and related services, and the local representative is dwayne.harrison@huntcompanies.com.

MCIEAST RCO SOLICITATIONS 

Here are the open solicitations for the Marine Corps Installations East Regional Contracting Office:

M6700125Q1101:  Audio Visual System

M6700125Q1109:  Secondary Clarifiers

M6700125Q0018:  Chemicals for Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Havelock, NC

M6700125Q1094:  Concrete Barriers

M6700125Q1115:  Fire Hose Testing

M6700125Q1035:  Automotive Parts Store Operations.  Still no responses from U. S. automotive parts manufacturers who are small businesses.   Would like to hear from someone in the industry at some point.

We also have multiple purchase requests in the market research phase.  So, please respond to sources sought and e-mails from contract specialists, as this will help make set-aside decisions quicker!

 

 

EVENTS

There are many organizations hosting events to assist small businesses.  Please contact Mr. Chris Rabassi at 910-450-5549, chris.rabassi@usmc.mil to determine what event best fits your business needs.  

I am still planning for a small business outreach sometime in late November-early December.  The focus of the event will be the post-Federal Acquisition Regulation overhaul environment.

 

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