Agency Profiles/Forecasting

In the application: Main Menu → Research → Agency Profiles/Forecasting

Follow the sections in order, or use the contents and chapter links to go directly to what you need. Existing lessons may change example records or repeat a shared screen.

Open this feature’s video learning path

Written walkthrough and screen references

  1. Explore department profiles, agencies and industry spending
  2. Understand agency, office, industry and incumbent reports
  3. Find prospective teaming and subcontracting partners

Watch the learning sequence

Follow these lessons in order. Shared screens may use another example; chapter links open the relevant step.

1. Agency Profiles: follow department spending and buying offices

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Open Agency Profiles and Forecasting
  2. 0:11 — Select Veterans Affairs
  3. 0:22 — Read the department profile
  4. 0:44 — Open department expenditures
  5. 1:02 — Read the electrical-contractors row
  6. 1:31 — Open the department-wide supplier list
  7. 1:55 — Open the agency breakdown
  8. 2:14 — Open the department’s agency
  9. 2:36 — Find office 36C241
  10. 3:00 — Read the office’s industry row
  11. 3:24 — Open the office supplier list
  12. 3:47 — Continue to the company profile
  13. 4:03 — Open the office-name directory

2. Read Agency Forecast and subcontracting workbooks

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Read the separate forecast link list
  2. 0:30 — Read the DoD subcontracting workbook
  3. 1:00 — Read the Federal subcontracting workbook

3. Review grouped and individual award actions

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Open Award History
  2. 0:09 — Read grouped contract results
  3. 0:30 — Expand a contract row
  4. 0:48 — Open the PSA907 action
  5. 1:10 — Review purchaser information
  6. 1:28 — Review contractor information
  7. 1:46 — Review contract data
  8. 2:05 — Review product or service fields
  9. 2:24 — Review competition fields
  10. 2:42 — Return to award results
  11. 2:52 — Review a place-of-performance result
  12. 3:14 — Read an individual action row
  13. 3:40 — Choose the result layout

4. Award and Expiring results: Save Search and Create Folder controls

Watch from the beginning

Choose a chapter
  1. 0:00 — Name an Award History search
  2. 0:14 — Name an Expiring Contracts search
  3. 0:26 — Review the Create Folder form
Video Training Library