Ensure a smooth transition from SF254 and SF255 to SF330 by preordering a copy of the new Insider's Guide to SF330 Preparation today. This is the revised edition of the Insider's Guide to SF254/255 Preparation, the best-selling federal marketing guide for A/E and environmental firms. The Insider's Guide, expected to ship in the fall of 2004, will provide full details on the changes along with a side-by-side comparison of SF254/255 and SF330. The book will provide you with instructions on completing the form, share tips on how to highlight credentials, and show pitfalls to avoid in government marketing. The text will be augmented with numerous checklists and forms_plus eye-opening interviews with federal contracting officers on their likes and dislikes in A/E submittals.

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Take a short cut to the short list on your next federal A/E or environmental proposal. Does your engineering, architecture, or environmental consulting firm perform projects for the federal government? Chances are, you do - or you'd like to. The U.S. government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world!

The Insider's Guide to SF254/255 Preparation covers everything you need to know about the most important step in government marketing for A/E firms: preparation of Standard Forms 254 and 255. This guide walks marketers through the forms, sharing tips on how to highlight credentials and showing pitfalls to avoid in government marketing.

The text is organized around a step-by-step process that takes you from identifying and evaluating federal opportunities to forming a team, preparing your proposal, following through, and crossing the finish line.

The federal government is one of the largest purchasers of architecture, engineering, construction, planning, and environmental services in the world. Federal agencies can be attractive and reliable clients, particularly in a down economy. But competition for most contracts is fierce, and procurement rules can seem overwhelming. How can you differentiate yourself from the competition, make sense of the market, and win federal government work? The Guide to Winning Federal Government Contracts for A/E/C & Environmental Consulting Firms will show you how.

State departments of transportation spend over $30 billion each year on design, environmental, and construction services, making it one of the biggest markets in the AEC industry. With the new federal transportation bill providing a 30% increase in federal funding for highway projects, there's finally some long-term stability in the market. What will the changes mean for your firm?

Are you happy with the results you're getting from the money you're spending on marketing? Or could you stand to maximize the ROI on your marketing investment? If your firm is like most, you need to take steps to improve your firm's marketing program.

A/E Marketing Fitness Plan is an action-oriented book, written for firm leaders and marketing professionals of architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firms. It gives you step-by-step action plans so you can reap the highest return from your firm's marketing program. With a marketing self-assessment at the beginning and the end of the book, interactive testing in each chapter, checklists, worksheets, and case studies, you'll be able to assess what's right and what's wrong with the way your firm approaches marketing. Get advice on how to develop a winning marketing plan and budget, create winning presentations and proposals, get your message out, build a public relations program that gets results, and much more.

Follow the steps in the A/E Marketing Fitness Plan, from the beginning assessment to the closing reassessment, and you'll minimize the waste in your firm's marketing program and make sure the money you spend on marketing is being used to the utmost.

Is it a chore to develop your firm's organization structure, create organization charts, or figure out who reports to whom? Whatever your reason is, if you need to create firm-wide, department, office, or project team organization charts or decide how your firm's organization should be laid out, A/E Organization Charts can help. This new resource contains nearly 150 unique organization charts in use by actual architecture, consulting engineering, interior designers, and environmental firms. With this book, you'll get an inside look at how other firms just like yours organize themselves. Use these charts as a basis for creating your own firm's charts -- you'll never have to start another organization chart from scratch again!