FEDCON EDGE
CONSULTING PROGRAM
Strategic Federal Consulting That Builds Your Competitive Edge.
A dedicated federal advisor. Three months of structured intelligence gathering. The strategy, positioning, and pipeline your business needs to compete for real federal contracts.
The Three Phases · 3-Month Program
Structured intelligence. Built to compete.
Every phase of EDGE Consulting builds on the last. By the time you finish, you’ve built the strategy, relationships, and market intelligence that make a winning proposal possible.
Know Your Battlefield
You can’t compete for contracts you can’t see. Your advisor walks you through the terms, contract vehicles, and state and local opportunities that matter for your business, then maps which prime contractors are active in your space and where you fit under them.
- →Tailored consulting curriculum
- →Federal contracting glossary
- →State and local (SLED) portal registration guide
- →Contract vehicle info sheet
- →Prime contractor landscape report
- →Subcontracting pursuit plan
Build Your Network
Most federal dollars flow through prime contractors, not directly to small businesses. Your advisor reviews your prime list with you, shows you how to find more in the FEDCON Portal, and works through supplier registrations with you. Then comes real federal spending data for your industry: which agencies are buying, what they’re paying, and where you actually have a shot.
- →Prime contractor report review
- →Prime finder guide
- →Supplier registrations, done together
- →Mentor-Protégé overview & target playbook
- →Agency spending & OSDBU intelligence report
- →Opportunity heat map
Prepare to Win
A working session on finding the OSDBU offices and contracting officers who buy your services, with guidance on your outreach. Then the opportunities themselves: how to judge whether one is competitive for you, analyze the solicitation, and make the go/no-go call. Before anyone judges your proposal on merit, it has to pass compliance, so you also get the compliance matrix process. You finish knowing exactly where you stand and what’s needed before bid writing begins.
- →Contact search walk-through
- →Agency outreach guidance
- →Solicitation analyzer
- →Go/no-go analyzer
- →Compliance matrix
The FEDCON Portal
Your command center for six months
Live federal and SLED opportunities, set-aside filters, past award data, buyer contacts, saved searches, and alerts, all in one place. Your email campaigns run through it. Your results show up in it.
Live Opportunities
Federal and SLED contract opportunities updated daily, filtered to your NAICS codes and certifications.
Campaign Dashboard
Track your 4 email campaigns in real-time: opens, replies, and meetings booked.
Buyer Intelligence
Past award data, agency contacts, and prime contractor teaming leads, searchable and saved.
“I’m impressed how powerful this FEDCON portal software is.”
Why EDGE Consulting
Going it alone in federal contracting costs you more than time.
Most small businesses try to figure out federal contracting by attending webinars, reading SBA guides, and chasing opportunities on SAM.gov without a strategy. They spend yearssubmitting proposals that go nowhere, because they never built the intelligence to know which ones were actually winnable.
EDGE Consulting is built differently. Your advisor works directly with you across three phases, not to hand you a generic government contracting roadmap, but to build the specific intelligence your business needs. Which agencies match your capabilities. Which primes to pursue. Which opportunities are worth the effort. Which ones aren’t.
EDGE builds the strategic foundation. When you’re ready to submit a real bid, Flagship adds VEX marketing and a FEDCON-written proposal on top of the intelligence EDGE produces. Start here. Upgrade when the opportunity is right.
A dedicated advisor, not a course
Your advisor works with you for the full three months. Real calls, real data, real strategy built around your business, not a generic government contracting curriculum.
Intelligence that compounds
Each phase builds on the last. The market and prime contractor picture from Phase 1 shapes your network and agency targets in Phase 2, and both shape the opportunities you evaluate in Phase 3.
The strategy your proposal depends on
EDGE builds the intelligence foundation. When you’re ready to submit a bid, upgrade to Flagship, where FEDCON’s proposal team writes it using everything your EDGE consulting produced.
Three months vs. years on your own
Without structured guidance, most businesses spend 2 to 3 years trying to break into federal contracting. EDGE compresses that timeline into a focused three-month engagement with a clear path forward.
Is This Right for You?
EDGE is for businesses ready to build
a real federal strategy.
This isn’t an intro course or a certification checklist. EDGE is a three-month consulting engagement that builds the intelligence, positioning, and pipeline a small business needs to compete, with a clear path to a proposal when you’re ready.
You already have federal marketing assets in place
You’ve got a Capabilities statement, your SAM profile is current, and you have some federal-facing presence. You’re not starting from zero. You’re ready to build strategy.
You’re registered but not winning anything
You have a SAM registration, maybe some certifications, and you’ve looked at opportunities, but nothing has moved. You need targeted intelligence and a real pipeline, not another checklist.
You want a dedicated advisor in your corner
Generic consulting gives you a framework and leaves you to implement it alone. EDGE gives you a dedicated federal advisor working through the strategy with you, call by call, for three months.
You don’t yet have federal marketing assets
If your Capabilities statement needs work, your SAM profile isn’t optimized, or you don’t have a federal-facing web presence, start with VEX. It builds the foundation EDGE needs to be effective.
You want consulting and a FEDCON-written proposal
If you want the full package (VEX Marketing, EDGE Consulting, and a FEDCON-written bid proposal), Flagship bundles everything into one six-month engagement.
You need a quick fix, not a three-month program
If you have a single narrow need (a SAM registration update, one certification application, or a single compliance question), FEDCON offers standalone services for that.
Transparent Pricing
Everything included. No hidden fees.
EDGE replaces the patchwork of consultants, research firms, and online courses most businesses cobble together, for a fraction of what they’d cost separately.
How EDGE compares.
Going it alone means years of trial and error. Hiring a generic consultant gets you a framework, not a strategy. EDGE delivers intelligence, positioning, and a real pipeline, with a dedicated advisor for three months.
| Feature | DIY | Other Consultants | FEDCON EDGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated federal advisor (3 months) | Partial | ||
| Agency spending analysis & target strategy | Partial | ||
| Prime contractor landscape report | Partial | ||
| Opportunity heat map | |||
| Go/no-go analyzer | |||
| Teaming & Mentor-Protégé strategy | |||
| Contract vehicle info sheet | Partial | ||
| Compliance matrix | |||
| Bid readiness review | |||
| FEDCON Portal access & training |
Competitors vs FEDCON
Buying these services individually costs $22,500 to $64,000+, and you still need to coordinate it all yourself. Working with the FEDCON team is a seamless process where you are assigned to your advisor, consultant and bid writer.
| What You Need | What You Get | What You’d Pay Elsewhere | What’s Still Missing |
|---|---|---|---|
| If you buy the pieces one at a time | |||
| Agency Spending Analysis | Federal spending data for your industry + target strategy | $3,000 to $8,000 | One-time report. No ongoing advisor. |
| Prime Contractor Research | Identify primes in your space + outreach plan | $2,000 to $5,000 | No pipeline. No introductions. |
| Opportunity Pipeline Build | Forecast + pipeline tracking setup | $2,500 to $6,000 | No go/no-go framework. No teaming. |
| Teaming & JV Advisory | Mentor-Protégé guidance + partner identification | $3,000 to $10,000 | No market intelligence. No proposals. |
| Proposal Compliance Training | FAR/DFARS compliance + matrix training | $2,000 to $5,000 | No pipeline. No bid-readiness check. |
| GovCon Strategy Consulting | Federal contracting advisor | $10,000 to $30,000 | Generic frameworks. No deliverables. |
| FEDCON EDGE | 6 bi-weekly calls across 3 phases + dedicated advisor for 3 months | FEDCON price$1,495/mo × 3or $3,995 paid in fullSave $490 | Marketing & Bid: Get Flagship |
Payment options. FEDCON now accepts payment plans and paid-in-full options. Contact us to learn more.
EDGE Capture Management
When you don’t have time to run your own capture pipeline.
EDGE Capture Management is a three-month engagement where FEDCON sources government solicitations for you every week and writes six complete bids on the opportunities you choose to pursue. You are already certified and well positioned in your NAICS codes. What you don’t have is time to run the pipeline yourself, so we run it for you.
3-Month Managed Sourcing + 6 FEDCON-Written Bids
Managed Sourcing
- Continuous, done-for-you solicitation sourcing across your target NAICS codes and adjacent categories: federal, state, local, education, and subcontracting or teaming
- A weekly opportunity review session where we walk your shortlist together, with what each opportunity is, what it seeks, key dates, and our fit assessment
- An onboarding baseline analysis estimating the opportunity value you are currently missing, at a conservative award rate
- FEDCON Portal access for the full sourcing period
Your pipeline stays full without you spending hours a week hunting solicitations. The weekly session is a working bid-selection meeting, not a lecture, so advisor time goes toward sourcing and bid production.
6 FEDCON-Written Bids
- Six complete, submission-ready proposals, written by FEDCON, drawn from the opportunities you elect to pursue
- Target pace of one bid every two weeks across the engagement
- Scope per bid: one solicitation of reasonable length and complexity, up to $5M in contract value
- Multi-volume IDIQ, GWAC, and BPA pursuits are scope expansions, quoted separately
Your team stays focused on delivery while FEDCON handles proposal writing. Bid credits do not expire, so anything unused carries forward until you use it.
Ready to learn which program fits the need of your business?
What It Costs Elsewhere
Capture Management: Competitors vs FEDCON
Hiring a capture manager and a proposal writer separately runs $45,000 to $135,000 for the same three months and six bids, and you manage the handoff between them yourself.
| What You Need | What You Get | What You’d Pay Elsewhere | What’s Still Missing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capture Management Retainer | Sourcing, pipeline, and pursuit strategy (3 months) | $15,000 to $45,000 | No proposals written. Retainer ends, sourcing ends. |
| Federal Proposal Writing | One written proposal, priced per solicitation | $5,000 to $15,000 each | Six bids puts you at $30,000 to $90,000. |
| FEDCON EDGE Capture Management | 3 months of managed sourcing + 6 FEDCON-written bids | FEDCON priceStarting at$12,990 | Bids up to $5M. |
Ready to Build Your Federal Strategy
The first step is a conversation with a real advisor.
We’ll review your profile, pull real federal award data for your industry, and tell you exactly where you stand, before you commit to anything.