IHS White Paper: How to Obtain Market Information for Intelligent Bid Decisions

Stop Wasting Time Searching Government Databases

The U.S. Government makes hundreds of thousands of documents and databases available regarding procurements. But, the finding the specific part information needed to support bid decisions or an existing contract requires a significant amount of time.

First, documents and databases need to be identified. Next, the documents need to be located and access set up for the databases. Some databases require special software and training to use. Then, the searching begins. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the information you are looking for will be found in time to support the project.

For parts and systems purchased by the U.S. Government to support defense and aerospace this paper

• Discusses market information available
• Discusses how market information can be used to support proposals and bid decisions
• Identifies and discusses three sources for part information
• Provides a case study showing how one company improved their government contracting using government purchasing information

Databases provide users access to an almost unlimited amount of information regarding defense and aerospace parts purchases. Extracting the information needed quickly and in a format that is useful is a common problem. IHS offers customers access to multiple databases using a single interface available 24/7 from the users' desktop computer.

To discover how to efficiently obtain critical parts and supplier information for defense and aerospace government contracts, request this white paper today.