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Get Contractor-Ready

A 90-day, bilingual track from registration to your first bid

The Small Business Administration estimates that a new contractor spends two years and a significant budget before the first return. This track compresses that. In 90 days, in English or Spanish, you go from no registration to a submitted bid. With the paperwork, the pricing and the relationships in place.

Ask about the next cohort info@sfbayhcc.com
The cohort
12 weeks
Weekly sessions, office hours, shared workbook
15 firms
Maximum per cohort
EN / ES
Delivered in English or Spanish
Overview Opportunities Forecasts Get Contractor-Ready Bid Desk Prime Partners Market Data Resources
What you leave with

Ten modules. Every one ends in something you can send to a buyer.

Weeks
Module
Your output
1
Who buys what you sell
A one-page buyer map for your NAICS code in California
2
Registration
An active SAM.gov record (UEI, CAGE code, NAICS, small-business self-certification) plus California and local registrations
3
Certifications
An eligibility decision and application plan for 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB, SDB and state and local programs
4
Capability statement
A reviewed capability statement aligned to real solicitations
5
Reading a solicitation
An annotated sample: IFB, RFQ and RFP, Instructions to Offerors, FAR clauses, wage determinations
6
Pricing
A price model built from award history and wage determinations
7
Money
A financing plan: prompt payment, purchase cards, supplier accounts, SBA CAPLines, bonding
8
Teaming
A target list of primes and partners, and how subcontracting and joint ventures work
9
Sources Sought
One live response submitted
10–12
Bid lab
One real bid under $350,000 submitted, start to finish
Who it is for

Bay Area firms with a trade and the capacity to perform.

Hispanic-owned and other small businesses in the Bay Area. Firms with at least one year of operating history and the capacity to perform get the most out of it.

Construction trades
Facilities and site services
Professional and IT services
Repair and logistics
Food and agriculture supply
Verified at the end

Readiness is checked, not claimed.

The Registration Desk and Certification Desk are available to members who want the paperwork done with them rather than by them. At the end we verify:

✓Active SAM registration
✓Capability statement on file
✓Insurance and bonding confirmed
✓One response and one bid submitted

Verified firms are added to the Qualified Source List we share with Prime Partners.

The next cohort is forming.

Fifteen seats, English or Spanish. Se habla español.

Ask about the next cohort info@sfbayhcc.com