They're Willing To Work With You If You Can Perform! Goverment Contracting - Melanie Patterson

Truck N' Hustle

Rahmel Wattley

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	How did you know about government contracting and how did you know that trucking was, you know,
0:04.6	you could, you can grow your trucking in government contracting? Where did you get that concept from?
0:10.6	Honestly, to be real, I really didn't know much about government contracting. I knew that it was
0:16.2	there, but I really didn't know much about it. Okay. So what? Research.
0:21.7	Started to research.
0:22.4	What is this?
0:23.2	What does this look like?
0:26.3	And how would it look like for me and within this industry?
0:36.3	And so I just knew, hey, look, not just registering the company as a certified company to do business with the government.
0:37.3	But guess what?
0:37.8	I'm double, minority and woman.
0:40.5	51% shareholder.
0:42.3	And so then I started to learn that way and just really.
0:45.2	So once you got certified, right, as minority and woman, how long did it take you
0:50.4	before you were able to, or did you get a government contract?
0:53.0	And if you did, how long did that take you um my first contract took me about four months four months and what'd
1:00.8	you do to get that to pursue that contract did bid bid bid bid bid bid bid bid bid bid bid bid know who's um buying your
1:07.5	services okay know who's buying your services a lot lot of people out here, I see them,
1:12.0	you know, hey, I want to do government contract. I want to do government contract. They pay this money
1:16.0	to get certified, but you don't know who's buying. And so is it on the city level, on the
1:22.5	state level, on the federal level? Who do you want to do business with? I wanted to stay within
1:27.3	my state because I knew that that's what would work for me? I wanted to stay within my state because I knew
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