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BUSINESS & WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITIES    

This page gives you Featured Links for Business, Contracting & Workforce Opoportunities related to BRAC.

IN ADDITION, GO TO THE RESOURCES PAGE WHICH HAS ABUNDANT BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION RELATING TO:

• Defense and Government Agencies
• Major Employers
• Business Organizations
• Educational institutions
• Business, Employment and Workforce Development Opportunities (scroll down to the Featured Links, but look everywhere on this page!)
• Grants and Other Funding Sources  (Scroll to the bottom)

ALSO, CHECK THE HOME PAGE FOR "UPCOMING EVENTS" AND "WHAT'S HOT" IN BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.

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FEATURED LINKS FOR BRAC-RELATED BUSINESS & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

• Thursday, October 8, 2009, Grand Opening of WRAMC BRAC Career Transition Center, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, WRAMC Delano Hall Bldg. Room 1-96, 6900 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington DC.
  
  
• 8-27-09 Defense Industry Daily:  Up to $197M to Whiting-Turner for Construction of Walter Reed Facilities
• 8-27-09 NNMC Journal:  Contract awarded for Phase II of BRAC -- Transitional support facilities to be added to future WRNNMC
  • Whiting-Turner Home Page
    
    
• Fort Meade Regional Welcome BRAC site -- includes info on business and employment opportunities
  
  
• Job Fairs for BRAC Growth at Aberdeen Proving Grounds
  
  
• 5-29-09 Gazette.Net:  Montgomery County Business Report, 2009  (31 pp)
  
  
• 10-31-08 Baltimore Examiner (Associated Press):  Md. study focuses on minority businesses and BRAC
  • 10-31-08 Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown News Release:  Lt. Governor Brown Released the Maryland BRAC Small and Minority Business Opportunities Study
  • 10-31-08 State of Maryland BRAC Small and Minority Business Opportunities Study  (201 pp.)
  • 10-31-08 Fact Sheet: BRAC Small and Minority Business Opportunities Study  (2 pp.)
    
    
• Saturday, November 1, 2008:  Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Career & Information Expo -- Saturday, November 1, 2008 • 10 a.m. -2 p.m., Sheraton-Baltimore/Washington Airport Hotel, 1100 Old Elkridge Landing Road • Linthicum, MD 21090.  More information about DISA opportunities at Fort Meade.
  
  
• March 3, 2008 -- Dept. of Navy Awards Contract for Initial Phase of New Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Project. 
  • Clark Construction Group, LLC
    • Clark Construction, subcontracting opportunities
    • Clark Construction, employment opportunities
    • Clark Construction Courses for LSDBE's (Local, Small, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises)
  • Balfour Beatty Construction
    • Balfour Beatty subcontracting opportunities
    • Balfour Beatty career opportunities
      
      
• For information on contracting opportunities relating to new Fisher Houses or the National Intrepid Center of Excellence for Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, which will be constructed on the NNMC campus, go to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund web site.  Information will be posted at the appropriate time.
  • Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund Announces New National Intrepid Center of Excellence fo Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Turner Construction:  Primary Contractor, for subcontracting and employment opportunities.
    
    
• Navy Electronic Commerce Online (NECO):  "This site is your link to the world of Navy Electronic Business Opportunities. NECO is the centerpiece of the Navy's paperless process strategy."
  
  
• BRAC CONSTRUCTION AT NATIONAL NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER IN BETHESDA:
  • REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS:  Select "View Only" to bypass Login, or create your own User Name and Password.  Then, insert this Solicitation Number:  N40080-07-R-0004
    
    
• "Workforce ONE Maryland" -- Joint Task Force, National Capital Region - Medical
  
  • "Workforce ONE Maryland Program" -- Request for Proposals for BRAC-Related Workforce Development Program

    • The Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland Workforce Division, in coordination with the MD Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, is soliciting request for proposals (RFP) for the Workforce ONE Maryland Program.  Proposals will focus on innovative and creative workforce development projects targeting BRAC-impacted regions in Maryland.  The RFP is available at http://www.lowershore.org/WORFP.PDF   Proposals will be selected in three rounds, the first due March 21, 2008.
      
      

    • 9-16-08 Maryland Daily Record:  State to set aside $600K for job training to ease BRAC transition
    • 9-16-08 Baltimore Business Journal:  Maryland awards BRAC work force training grants
      • Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind (CLB) -- Targeted for services:  Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George’s Counties & Fort Belvoir, VA
        • CLB will address the needs of returning warriors and veterans who are blind or visually impaired.  These individuals are either receiving treatment and/or working at Fort Detrick, Fort Meade, National Naval Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, and Ft. Belvoir’s DeWitt.  CLB and its partners will:
        • Provide job training and support services to supplement what is already offered at these installations
        • Supply job placement to those interested in leaving the military and/or will also assist military installations to became more visually accessible 
          
      • Monster.com’s Monster Government Solutions (MGS) -- Targeted for services:  Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties & Southern MD
        • Monster Government Solutions will create a targeted  Community Portal website to address the needs and concerns of relocated military, civilian, and contractor spouses and family members. The website will provide a job  and internship search and social networking capability to ease the relocation process to the “Region.”
          
          
           

• BRAC Higher Education Investment Fund -- application deadline: November 6, 2008.  As part of the O’Malley/Brown Administration’s efforts to fully prepare Maryland for the impact of BRAC, the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation contracted with the Maryland Higher Education Commission to perform a study of higher education institutions in Maryland, Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and Delaware to determine their preparedness and capacity to meet the demands of BRAC postsecondary education needs facing Maryland.  The information obtained through the study will be the basis for planning to meet the higher education needs throughout the State due to BRAC. 

  
   

• Central Contractor Registration (CCR):  Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is the primary registrant database for the U.S. Federal Government.  CCR collects, validates, stores and disseminates data in support of agency acquisition missions. Click here to learn more about CCR Policy and Background.
  
  

• FedBizOpps:  Federal Business Opportunities:  The U.S> Government's one-stop virtual marketplace.  Through this single point of entry, commercial vendors and government buyers are invited to post, search, monitor, and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community.
  

• NNMC Home Page 
• NNMC Business Opportunities Page
• NNMC BRAC Page
  
  
• Start and / or Grow Your Small Business With the B.E.S.T. Program:  Montgomery College Workforce Development and Continuing Education
• April 24, 2008 -- 18th Annual Federal Procurement Conference sponsored by the Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, in Upper Marlboro MD.  The OSDBU Procurement Conference is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its Prime Contractors, and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone, and women-owned businesses. 
• MD Dept. of Business & Economic Development (DBED)
  • DBED Office of Military Affairs
  • DBED Business Opportunities Manual -- For Small Businesses Seeking Contracts with Maryland's Federal Facilities, 2007  (72-page pdf)
• TEDCO:  Maryland Technology Development Corporation 
• Tech Council of Maryland
  
  
• 2-8-08 Congressional Hearing: "Military Base Realignment: Contracting Opportunities for Impacted Communities"
  • Hearing Summary
  • Testimony of Timothy Foreman, Director, Office of Small Business Programs, Office of the Secretary of the Navy
  • Statement by Tracey Pinson, Director, Office of Small Business Programs, Office of the Secretary of the Army
  • Testimony of Luwanda Jenkins, Special Secretary, Maryland Governor's Office on Minority Affairs
  • Testimony of Hubert "Petey" Green, President, Prince George's Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
  • Testimony of John Watkins, Jr., President, Ingenium Corporation
  • Testimony of Richard Weidman, Chairman, Veterans Entrepreneurship Task Force
    

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