Resources
The methods of supply
Five ways the federal government buys professional services, and the one thing each of them decides: whether a department can buy from your firm at all.
- TBIPS
Task-Based Informatics Professional Services
IT resources for a defined piece of work - a business analyst, a developer, an IM/IT specialist - at or above the trade-agreement threshold. Mandatory for federal departments.
Read the explainer - SBIPS
Solutions-Based Informatics Professional Services
IT work bought as a solution and an outcome, at or above the threshold. The other mandatory informatics vehicle.
Read the explainer - TSPS
Task and Solutions Professional Services
Professional services that are not informatics - business consulting, project management, change management, human resources and the like - task-based or solutions-based.
Read the explainer - ProServices
ProServices
Professional services, informatics included, below the trade-agreement threshold. The vehicle most small firms meet first.
Read the explainer - THS
Temporary Help Services
Temporary staff for federal departments in the National Capital Region, by category and security level.
Read the explainer
These are the plain-words versions. The explainers say what the solicitations say - thresholds, tiers, streams and refresh dates - and each carries the date it was last checked.