About Eric Shangle Expertise I am able to answer questions about the US Government and it's budget cycle, military, manpower, and contracting.
Experience I spent 13 years in the US Navy as an officer. I have a defense-focused MBA from the Naval Postgraduate School emphasizing financial management and manpower.
Education/Credentials MBA, Naval Postgraduate School, 2005
M.A., Human Relations, University of Oklahoma, 2002
B.S., Ocean Engineering, United States Naval Academy, 1997
Question QUESTION: Our firm as been in business doing repair work for NOAA and the weather service for going on four years.
Our cage code is 3N5E2.
We are try ing to get some military bids, but the nomencalture and descriptions of the items are not clear, getting enought infomation to bid had proven to be a dead end.
We have Febizopps,Fed Teds you name it.
We also want o tknow the best way to get an appointment to go see someone who is interested in new repair vendors for devices like Radar, we do NEXRAD RADAR right now and have terrific references.
We get close,bu then with no information I can't bid blind. How do we ask for a sample to estimate?
How do we get appointments? What kind of vendors do they really need and how much is posted to satisfy simple regulations and they have no intention of sending theitem to any new vendors?
I have SCORE, PTAC all is in place but i keep hitting dead ends. I did bid two items blind and came out OK we were inspected by DCMA out of Chicago and passed with no problem.
Our e-mail is service@emrrepair.com.
We would love to have myself, my partner and my controller have a conversation with someone of your background and take any pointers you could give us.
We really appreciate your time, I am a volunteer on here under home electical and electrical motors so I know this is very time consuming.
Any help advice, direction tip or futher instructions would be fantastic.
We do quality work and saved the NWS a small fortune, long story for on here.
What do you think?
Will Babbitt
President
EMR Repair Inc
ANSWER: Will,
Wow! Thank you for a great question. I actually worked in the METOC (Meteorology / Oceanography) community within the Navy. I am off to bed right now. Let me look into this and get a decent answer back to you. It might take some email back and forth, but I am sure that we can come up with a game plan for you.
Talk to you soon.
Eric
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QUESTION: Eric,
I am looking forward to hearing your ideas. Let em know when you have some time. I don't know if you know how to go in through the vendor side. Most have been on the other side and don't understand what it takes to even find out WHAT an item is.
We have such a great track record with NOAA and The engineers I have talked with at the Air Force, all comment they need new vendors or vendors period.
We get our list of RFQs through PTAC or FEDBIZ Opps.
I have the link to the blanket, I can send that to you. If I forgot our e-mail is service@emrrepair.com.
Thanks so much for the quick reply!
Will Babbitt
ANSWER: Will,
I have not forgotten about you. I have left a few messages with my former professors at the Naval Postgraduate School. There is a contracting curriculum within the MBA program. I only had to take one class in contracting, but there are people who specialize in it.
Again, I don't know what I am going to get from this, but I am trying.
You are correct in assuming I know more about the government side of the house. This doesn't mean that I don't know about the contractor side as well. I will hopefully have something for you later this week that can help you out. I hope you are not on a timeline or behind a timeline.
Thanks for communicating.
Eric
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QUESTION: Not behind a timeline at all, and a complex question to boot.
But there has to be a more effecient way to do things, for both the Government and us. My neighbor who was a Federal Contract Fraud Inspector, had no idea of purchases less than $100,000.00, he said they were not staffed and would rarely look into them.
But I am the type that want's everything upfront and clear, no issues. I know there are people bidding on stuff all the time with no idea of what it is, sending less than quality stuff, but I don't want any part of that.
I know there are systems, motors, problems with electro mechanical "stuff", we fixed a ton of it.
Just where to go and how to approach it is the issue.
Again, I do appreciate your time very much.
Will Babbitt
Answer Will,
I have sent information to two professors at the Naval Postgraduate School. Also, I spoke with one of them on the phone this morning. They know exactly the pains you are going through. They should be able to compile some information for you to help out.
Hopefully this will allow you to streamline your process a bit. Getting the right information quickly and efficiently is important. It will allow you to concentrate on putting together a bid that has a chance at winning based on solid research and numbers. It is a waste of your time (and money) to not have the same information that larger government contractors may have readily available to them.
I truly hope that we can help you out and have you on your way.
Let's use email from now on to get this taken care of. It's just easier on my end. Everytime you reply in here, I get notices to answer your question. I would rather just track this down for you via email. (Again, hoping that I can at least provide you some information).
Talk to you soon.
Eric Shangle
swim97@gmail.com
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