Other than FedBizOpps, what sort of central clearinghouse is there for
all Broad Agency Announcements from all federal agencies?

Hello,

There are is a private sites that help the process of finding
information.

The first is FedMarket.
http://www.fedmarket.com/

FedMarket offers a site full of useful information, but the best
feature is what they call BidEngine:
http://www.bidengine.com/

"Bidengine is a specialized search engine that scours thousands of
procurement pages containing opportunities to sell products and
services. Intensely focused, Bidengine eliminates the irrelevant
results produced by generic search tools. Bidengine finds bid and
proposal opportunities posted by international, federal, state, city
and county governments, along with universities, school districts and
public buying cooperatives.

Using Bidengine, you can search all procurement categories at once, or
narrow your search to the following categories:
bid opportunities 
awards 
forecasts 
subcontracting opportunities 
contracting officers 
You can search all states at once or individual states. Federal
sources include FedBizOpps, agency "Bid Boards" and FACNET request for
quotes."

Another site that helps you keep in touch with changes to the
processes is The Coalition for Government Procurement:
http://www.washmg.com/cgp/

They offer a newsletter and FAQs onsite to help cut through the
listings.

If FedBizOpps is slow in updating their sites you can check some of
the agencies own procurement boards:
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=related:http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efedbizops%2Egov%2F

I found this answer through personal experience and the following
search terms in Google:
Federal government procurement 
http://www.fedbizopps.gov and selecting SIMILAR PAGES in the Google
toolbar.

Good luck,
pgrote-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by informationnow-ga on 11 May 2002 16:31 PDT

The material provided doesn't answer the question. FedMarket and it's
BidEngine product are pay for service activities. My question is
really whether there is any single government site that gathers
together all the currently open BAAs and posts them in a single
location. FedBizOpps lets you do a search that can sort of return that
type of information. You can go to individual agency or department
sites and find the BAAs they offer but nowhere that I have found
provides a single source that is maintained on a regular basis.

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Clarification of Answer by pgrote-ga on 11 May 2002 16:37 PDT

Hello,

You asked for a central clearning house that offers everything and
Fedmarket is it. You do have to pay for the site, but it saves
valuable time.

As for government sites, FedBizOpps is the best if you want to call it
that. You have to drill down to the agency level on details of the
broad agency announcement.

The answer is not responsive to the question.

Actually, Google does a pretty good job of compiling the Broad Agency
Announcements. Click on any of the first 10 links or so:

[ ://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=GlF63B&q=broad+agency+announcements
]

But, in fairness to the answerer, most of these announcements have a
FedBizOps reference associated with them, making it the U.S.
gov't-preferred central clearinghouse for announcements.

mit

Cheap bast*rd.  informationnow-ga  really tap danced to avoid paying
$10. moaning that a long, concise answer didn't tell him what he
wanted.

I know the answer to his question (I work in Federal Procurement...)
and I wouldn't tell him if he gave me a thousand dollars.