FEDCON EDGE
CONSULTING PROGRAM
Strategic Federal Consulting That Builds Your Competitive Edge.
A dedicated federal advisor. Six months of structured intelligence gathering. The strategy, positioning, and pipeline your business needs to compete for real federal contracts.
The Four Phases · 6-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 pulls real federal spending data for your industry, walks you through which agencies are buying, what they’re paying, and where you actually have a shot — then builds a prioritized target strategy around your certifications and capabilities.
- →FEDCON Portal access & training
- →Custom target agency strategy prioritized by fit
- →Agency spending & OSDBU intelligence report
- →Opportunity heat map with analysis
- →SLED portal registrations (if applicable)
Build Your Network
Most federal dollars flow through prime contractors, not directly to small businesses. Your advisor identifies which primes are actively looking for partners with your certifications, helps you begin supplier portal registration, and builds a forecasting strategy to find opportunities 6–18 months before RFPs drop.
- →Prime contractor outreach plan with prioritized targets
- →Supplier portal registrations
- →Agency forecast & expiring contract hit list
- →Go/no-go scorecard with personalized vetting criteria
Prepare to Win
No more waiting for the right contract to appear. Your advisor refreshes your agency outreach with updated contacts, preps you for matchmaking events and industry days, and builds your teaming and certification-based partnership strategy — including Mentor-Protégé and joint venture opportunities.
- →Refreshed agency outreach sheet with scripts
- →Industry events calendar & pre-event prep plan
- →Contract vehicle fit analysis
- →Vetted teaming partner list & agreement framework
- →Mentor-Protégé target list & program guide
Program Review & What’s Next
Your program closes with a full review of what was built. Your advisor walks back through the intelligence, the network, and the pipeline you now own, then maps the next ninety days so the work continues after the engagement ends.
- →Program accountability report
- →90-day action plan
- →Next steps consultation
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 and a closeout — 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 six months. Real sessions, real data, real strategy — built around your business, not a generic government contracting curriculum.
Intelligence that compounds
Each phase builds on the last. The agency data from Phase 1 informs the prime targeting in Phase 2. The pipeline from Phase 3 shapes the proposal readiness strategy in Phase 4.
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.
Six months vs. years on your own
Without structured guidance, most businesses spend 2–3 years trying to break into federal contracting. EDGE compresses that timeline into a focused six-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 six-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, session by session, for six 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 six-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 six months.
| Feature | DIY | Other Consultants | FEDCON EDGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated federal advisor (6 months) | Partial | ||
| Agency spending analysis & target strategy | Partial | ||
| Prime contractor positioning report | Partial | ||
| Opportunity heat map & pipeline build | |||
| Go/no-go scorecard (personalized) | |||
| Teaming & Mentor-Protégé strategy | |||
| Contract vehicle fit analysis | Partial | ||
| Compliance matrix on live solicitation | |||
| Bid-readiness assessment & 90-day plan | |||
| FEDCON Portal access & training |
Competitors vs FEDCON
Buying these services individually costs $22,500–$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–$8,000 | One-time report. No ongoing advisor. |
| Prime Contractor Research | Identify primes in your space + outreach plan | $2,000–$5,000 | No pipeline. No introductions. |
| Opportunity Pipeline Build | Forecast + pipeline tracking setup | $2,500–$6,000 | No go/no-go framework. No teaming. |
| Teaming & JV Advisory | Mentor-Protégé guidance + partner identification | $3,000–$10,000 | No market intelligence. No proposals. |
| Proposal Compliance Training | FAR/DFARS compliance + matrix training | $2,000–$5,000 | No pipeline. No bid-readiness check. |
| GovCon Strategy Consulting | Federal contracting advisor (6 months) | $10,000–$30,000 | Generic frameworks. No deliverables. |
| FEDCON EDGE | 3 phases + closeout + 17 deliverables + dedicated advisor for 6 months | FEDCON price$1,495/mo × 3or $3,995 paid in fullSave $490 | Marketing & Bid: Get Flagship |
| Or have someone run the pipeline and write the bids for you | |||
| 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 price$12,990 | Bids up to $5M. |
Payment options. FEDCON now accepts payment plans and paid-in-full options. Talk to an advisor 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?
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.