Federal qualification, for the firms that do the work.

Why it exists

If you are not in the pool, you never see the work.

Federal departments do not buy professional services one contract at a time. They pre-qualify a pool of suppliers under a handful of supply arrangements - TBIPS, SBIPS, TSPS, ProServices, THS - and buy from the pool. A firm outside it does not lose the bid. It never sees the requirement, because the requirement never becomes a public tender.

Getting in is a paperwork exercise with a low pass rate, and the reason is almost never capability. Firms qualify onto the wrong vehicle, or onto three when one would do; the response answers a question the evaluation grid did not ask; the first submission comes back with deficiencies on a short clock and the effort stalls there. Once in, the problem inverts: hundreds of notices a week and no afternoon to read them.

Duly Qualified exists to do that exercise properly, from the public record, and then to keep reading the notices - saying no with a reason as often as yes, and writing every verdict down so the practice can be judged on its record.