Changing financial accounting, industry by industry. Chapter 3 of 13: Government bids
Win the bid. Survive the audit.
Registration, bid selection, pricing, and contract-ready accounting for small businesses entering government work.
The problem nobody puts on the agenda.
Most small businesses never bid because the paperwork looks endless. The ones that do win often discover their accounting system can't meet the contract's requirements.
Government contracts don't reward the best business. They reward the best-documented one.The Tiger Take, Chapter 3
Bid smarter
A written go/no-go process, so you chase contracts you can actually win.
Price with confidence
Indirect rates built from your real books and defensible line by line.
Stay compliant
Job costing and timekeeping that hold up under review.
What we put in place.
Controller discipline from 20+ years in the field, with AI automation handling the repetitive work so the close runs in days, not weeks.
- SAM.gov and state vendor registrations complete, with the right NAICS codes
- Small business certifications reviewed
- Go/no-go scoring before anyone drafts a proposal
- Indirect rate pools built from actual books
- Job-level cost accounting and compliant timekeeping
- A close process ready for contract reporting and audit
Your free Bid Readiness Scan.
Thirty minutes on your registration status, bid pipeline, and accounting readiness. No pitch unless you ask for one.
- Book a time.
Pick any open 30-minute slot on the calendar. - We review together.
Bring what you have. We'll look at your registration status, bid pipeline, and accounting readiness. - Leave with three fixes.
The three changes I'd make first, in plain language.