2012 on the Federal Government efforts to manage the requirements for Freedom of Information Act

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a key element of business development and capture. That's how you learn about the history of a search and competition. The problem is - FOIA requests are difficult:

• It takes forever to get - so someone has to keep track carefully and tirelessly to get the results - sometimes it takes months for their applications and useless for fishing effort.

• have the potential to cross your competition, as is well known that desire - and if you tend to work with the competitors, it can sometimes strategically about what you require.

• The third FOIA requests through services such as IQ and Centurion GovWin are great. They are faster, because these services are contacts in the offices of the FOIA established and have the staff to follow. The party whose records are subject to the FOIA does not know who asked the FOIA documents. The downside is, now that these services have the effort to go find the information you can reuse this information, go to its competitors offer. Brilliant move on their part a little FOIA. Subscribe now opponents of these services will have a reason to be grateful. This may or may not mind.

It now promises to get even more difficult FOIA documents - the length of time that extends for about a year. On 15 March 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Supervision published its annual report to pursue efforts on the federal government, and manage FOIA requests. This report is critical of the government surveillance, how to handle and respond to FOIA requests. Agencies received an average rating of C-. FOIA requests classified records on the basis of certain criteria: name of FOIA requester for the record, the record numbers of applications, descriptions of the material examined and the records were actually released. Currently, there are up to 13 months delays in some applications.

There are two things to note:

First These records are an indication of the willingness and ability of certain agencies of the FOIA offices to demonstrate accountability and transparency. You should be concerned about how difficult it is to obtain the necessary information to help us decide, an opportunity to gather our efforts and develop a proposal to enrich trace.

Second See if the agencies were rated F are part of your customer list. There were two reasons to maintain this level: either the Agency to respond to FOIA requests - which is in itself a bad sign - or not, to produce them in digital format (which is a standard FOIA). In this case, you save effort and no FOIA information - try to find other ethical ways.

What does this report mean for you? Well, a couple of things. First, start sooo early with his capture. If you think you need to FOIA documents, the plan is waiting for months to get it. Second, the resources available to use at its highest, such as payments that can help. However, you should strategically about it, you can get information faster and more anonymous, but we know that others get it too. There is no difference in the thought process when questions about a request for proposals in a public forum will get what you need is worth your best competition?

The president of OST Global Solutions, Olessia Smotrova-Taylor has 16 years experience in business development, marketing and communications, including 9 years in the acquisition and management of the proposal. You keep doing their best practices with a goal in the excellent suggestions and collaboration tools and techniques to build fully integrated teams of the proposal to help. He also serves as a board member of the Association of Professional management proposals - chapter of the National Capital Area (APMP NCA) and is the APMP NCA Executive Summary President bulletin. Before supports a number of Fortune 500 companies and small companies as a consultant for the proposal, he worked as a business developer for Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, and wrote for the London Financial Times.