How to Get Government Contracts
The whole sequence in order: free registration, the $15,000 card door, the band reserved for small businesses, certifications, your state, the free counselors.
Read the door orderFree guides
Every guide below is one door from the checker, in prose: the door order, the scam letters, the corrected $15,000 figure, the three loud trades, the middleman line, and the four certifications. Plain words, the rules cited, the dates on the numbers.
The whole sequence in order: free registration, the $15,000 card door, the band reserved for small businesses, certifications, your state, the free counselors.
Read the door orderCountdown letters aimed at the wrong date, invented rules, $349–$899 charges for a free renewal — exposed in the mills' own review files.
Read the scam fileThe micro-purchase threshold moved in 2025 and half the internet still prints $10,000. The card door, with the current number and its honest limits.
Read about the card doorNAICS 561720, a $22 million size standard, and why recurring local cleaning lives in the band reserved for firms your size.
Read the janitorial doorNAICS 562111, cleanouts under the card door, housing-authority property work, and the hauler's first three moves.
Read the hauler's doorTwo doors wearing one name: $45M for general contractors, ~$19M for specialty trades, and the 85% / 75% subcontracting lines.
Read the construction doorsThe dream pitch vs. the clauses: FAR 52.219-14, the pass-through rule, the $21.3M settlement, and the four shapes that are legal.
Read the line8(a), WOSB, HUBZone, SDVOSB: the ownership tests, the money caps, the map — what a screen can tell you and what only SBA decides. All free to apply.
Read the four doorsRather run the check than read about it? The free readiness checker prints your doors in order from your own answers.