If you’ve been in the federal government contracting market for very long, you’ve come to learn the importance of creating a Capability Statement to share with agency personnel and potential teaming partners. In the past, your distribution centered on your own email outreach, distributing copies at industry meetings, and posting it on your company website. These methods are still important but there’s a new capability with significant promise in spreading the word.
The Small Business Administration has just recently created a new feature in DSBS to store and distribute your capability statement on a broader scale. By loading it into your listing on the Dynamic Small Business Search website, Uncle Sam will help you spread the word on your skills, awards history, and contact information to a wider audience.
DSBS.sba.gov is the website government small business specialists, OSDBU officials, program managers, large business diversity offices, and others use to vet small businesses as primes, subs, suppliers and team members.
When you use the BC2Match Build My Team function, you will find a number of potential contracting partners. Go to DSBS to learn more about those companies.
What should you have in your capability statement? First and foremost highlight your current contact information. Secondly, list your NAICS codes, small business certifications and any industry certs like ISO or Microsoft or CMMI, etc. Thirdly, highlight any special skills, equipment, clearances and other unique items. Fourthly, list a few relevant, recent contracts with identifying information and awarding agencies. This latter group should be tailored to whomever you are trying reach.
We encourage you to keep your basic cape statement in Word so it can be updated easily. When it’s time to send a copy to an agency or large business, convert it to a PDF to assure it’s secure and won’t get corrupted by the recipient.
When BC2Match posts Sources Sought notices and RFIs, as we do every day, be ready to send your capability statement to the contract specialist to let them know you are interested and stand by to respond to the RFP. Don’t hesitate to send it again every 2-4 months to keep your company in the game.
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