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Small Business Special Option
TargetGov has a new shopping cart! The first selection is an option specifically designed to help small businesses with an affordable access to the exclusive Government Buyers Guide. This live, online database will help you find the people who buy what you sell in federal, state and local government agencies. Why wait for bids and RFQs to be announced when you can go directly to the people who are making the purchasing decisions? We guarantee the accuracy of the information and the price is only $79 per month! As one of our subscribers said: “The TargetGov guide was absolutely phenomenal in tracking down the people I needed. The small investment paid for itself many times over!”
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UPCOMING TRAINING SESSIONS
Exclusive Sessions, No Cost for TargetGov Subscribers
Topics: An Introduction to Using the TargetGov Government Buyers Directory to Find Government Customers, How to find Federal Agency Buyers Using the TargetGov Government Buyers Directory, and How to find State and Local Government Agency Buyers Using the TargetGov Government Buyers Directory
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UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
National government marketing expert, speaker, author and educator, Gloria Berthold will be speaking at these upcoming events.

UPCOMING EVENTS
Do not miss the 2005 MED WEEK Conference and Expo
September 11-14, 2005
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'Bunny' at center of Iraq, Halliburton controversy

Bunnatine ''Bunny'' Greenhouse is the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (''PARC'' in the alphabet soup of military acronyms) in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Lest the title fool, she is responsible for awarding billions upon billions in taxpayers' money to private companies hired to resurrect war-torn Iraq and to feed, clothe, shelter and do the laundry of American troops stationed there.
She has rained a mighty storm upon herself for standing up, before members of Congress and live on C-SPAN to proclaim things are just not right. She has asked many questions: Why is Halliburton - a giant Texas firm that holds more than 50 percent of all rebuilding efforts in Iraq - getting billions in contracts without competitive bidding? Do the durations of those contracts make sense? Have there been violations of federal laws regulating how the government can spend its money?

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Navy Awards Largest Public-Private Venture Housing Initiative to Date

Washington D.C. - The Department of the Navy (DoN) and Lincoln Family Communities, LLC entered into the Navy's newest public-private venture (PPV) housing project. With the goal of providing quality and affordable housing for military families, this project is the largest Private Venture awarded by the Navy to date. The project encompasses 5,694 Navy homes across three states and spanning seven Naval Installations and 36 communities in Navy Region Mid-Atlantic and four Naval Installations and 25 communities in the Naval District Washington Region.
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