20 Government Contracts that can be Easier for Beginners!

what's going on everyone it's Sheena AKA Sheena prur your favorite veteran so some of us know that Government Contracting can be a huge challenge especially when you're first getting started and you ask hey how do I get started what industry should I go into um what's the easiest contracts to get started and boy I I know that's a challenge it's a challenge for me to answer because sometimes I feel like we all want the easy way out but it's not always easy business is not easy but you can find contracts that are a little easier

than some others so today I want to share 20 contracts that might be a little easier for beginners so let's get into it so number one one of the easiest contracts for beginners to get into because I think that most people pretty much have absolutely been exposed to office supplies and so office supplies is the first one because I feel like um you can find them very easily um it's easy to understand and then you can also just choose a specific office supply if you want like if you just want to sell pens if you

just want to sell paper then it might be a little easy for you to go into office supplies because most people have had experience with office supplies so that's the number one thing that's a little bit easier when it comes to getting into government contrac and so of course you can get into office supplies whether it's on the federal level the local level or the Corp corporate level um you can also provide it as a subcontractor as a prime contractor so it's very very versatile right so the number two thing is janitorial services oh it's

not easy but I would say with janitorial services it's pretty simple because at the end of the day you're mostly scrubbing toilets you're mopping you're cleaning and most people have cleaned at least one thing in their entire life so it's not easy in the sense of like anyone can do it or anyone should do it it's more like it's simple to understand the concept is simple to understand once you understand what the client wants if the client wants dayport of services which means they're going to be there from 9 to five if they want a

a one time a week clean if they want a night cleaning where it's cleaning every night after every one's gone and the faster you do it the faster you're out of there or it could be like overnight cleaning where or overnight Porter Services where the person stays there overnight and just kind of like a like a monitor type of thing and they just clean and dust or whatever um the entire night so janitorial can be a little complex but it's one of the easier when it comes to hey I've cleaned and a lot of people

tell me when I do consultations that they had a janitorial service or they their parents did janitorial or something like that like they had a company and so it's very very familiar to them but they remember cleaning with a family member and so they understand like going into large buildings and like wiping Des down and that kind of thing so it could seem like a a a good alternative to go into over some other industry where you have to kind of learn it so genitori is number two so the number three thing is going to

be Landscaping Landscaping is not easy by any means but the good thing about Landscaping is you can do it as a self-employed person I like Landscaping personally um usually when we see contracts for landscaping they're pretty low in the the dollar amount um and that's usually because the people that go after these opportunities are going to be riding on their own lawn mower it's going to be a possibly a retirement a retired person and they're going to be riding on their on online mower in order to accomplish the goals so it could there's no way

to compete with that with me being sometimes with being a you know a company that's providing that service and I'm subcontracting to work out so my subcontractor has his price and then I put my price on top and then that always not always that out prices us sometimes in the Landscaping realm but you know just depending on where you are whether it's Federal local or corporate can determine what your experience is with Landscaping but as far as like someone just getting on a lawn mower riding lawn mower and doing the work themselves relatively easy if

you already know how to provide landscaping or you already know how to cut grass the number fourth thing is catering services if you already cook listen don't get into catering service if you can't cook or if you don't know anyone that can cook catering services is easy if you already do this type of thing if you already know how to provide um service catering services for other companies or you do it for you know friends and family and you always a person that cooks for Thanksgiving or other holidays with your family then catering can be

easy for you or something that you can think hey I know how to cook I I have cooked large scale meals this makes sense because not every catering um service is going to be huge or massive for like the army birthday or something like that it could be something where they just need um you know food for 20 people food for 50 people just depending on what the occasion is and that can be also be at the federal local corporate side and so what I like about those is when it comes to schools some schools

like charter schools and stuff like that they don't necessarily have a specific type of U food program so they they cater the service out to companies to cook for the students every day um and then when it comes to like corporate event think about if you work in the corporate world you ever worked in the corporate world and you've been to parties a lot of times they cater those Services as well whether it's you know it's in the company whether they come to you if you have a restaurant or something like that you can always

offer like catering even if you have a restaurant as like a side service with your restaurant or you can bring the restaurant to the people so catering is the number four thing the number five thing is copying and printing services so this might be new to a lot of people but copying and printing is a is a real contract that I've seen mostly on the local side now of course it can be on all sides but on the local side A lot of times it's going to be with schools where they need U brochures printed

out or something like let's say um the Housing Authority you know HUD where they need um a lot of brochures or a lot of Flyers printed out in the thousands tens of thousands and they need those printed and delivered a lot of times so it's simple enough especially if you already have a place where you do ma uh large amounts of printing or you can Outsource it to a company that does it where they you send in the information and then they send you send you the actual product back places like Vista Print and and

a bunch of other um online line companies where you just send the graphic and then they send you the flyers or they send you the um the documents that you need and then all you have to do is figure out how you're going to package it and then give it to the client or you can have essentially drop ship it and have the client um receive it directly from the printer so that all depends on what it says in the solicitation because a solicitation might say the the awarded contractor must hand deliver documents so you

have to that's something you just have to look out for you have to make sure that you're actually reading these solicitations because there might be little parameters in there let's just say someone else had this contract prior to you and they had it come directly from the printing company and you did not you weren't participating in that logistical piece at all and they left the documents outside in the rain and the Flyers got damaged so now the agency is scarred for life they want to make sure that you are delivering these with care and they're

not just being delivered from you know another country or another state and it ends up being a big old mess at least if it comes to you and it's not right you can you have first you know eyes on it to make sure that it's exactly what the agency um wants because you don't want the agency to be the first person to lay eyes on this product that you're you're essentially delivering to them you want to make sure that the product is right before it gets to the agency whatever it is so that's number five

thing so the number six thing is it support and help Death Services now I know people going to be like Sheena that is not easy but it is easy if you are already in the industry if you already provide help Des Services let's say you are a remote employee right now and you work for a company you understand all the language you understand exactly all the systems you can actually do this you can basically do the same thing that you're doing for your job and do it for yourself now there may be depending on what

company you work for there may be a non-disclosure agreement NDA or non-compete or something like that let's just say that the company you work for also competes for government contracts they may have something in in the documentation that you signed with them that you cannot go after government contracts either so make sure you read your contracts with jobs or if you're just like not you don't have a job and you want to go after it service is because you understand the language and you know how to do it then you definitely should go after certain

things that seem like they're within your wheelhouse because you don't want to do something that's way too you know way too massive for your liking or for your um within your ability to perform but it services and help deck Services can be very very lucrative or very very easy if you already are in the industry so that is the number six thing the number seven thing is translation and interpretive Services the reason why I love this so much is because I'm trying to learn a new language you know what I'm saying like I've been trying

to I took Spanish in high school and I did well but you really if you don't use it you really do lose it and so I've been trying to get my Spanish game back but you know it's it's I'm a work in progress and I'm trying to learn sign language also work in progress It's on my bucket list it's on my bucket list I'm going to get it done but I'm just saying interpreter services and translator Services those who speak multiple languages that should be easy breezy for you that that is literally second nature to

you all who speak multiple languages there are several contracts out there for interpreter and translation Serv services on the local level Federal level corporate level so all you have to do is just understand what the actual title would be it may not be translator Services it may not be interpretation Services it might be labeled something else it might say Spanish Services honestly it cuz this a these this is human based right it's a human business and they are the ones that are writing writing these solicitations and they're titling it sometimes not the correct way so

whatever that n code is for translator services or interpreter Services make sure you look at any type of variance um to any typee of language type of um services that you can offer so I envy y'all that can speak multiple languages because I'm not there yet I'm not there yet but that's a e now that's easy there should be no issue when it comes to those except for how much time you have to put into translating one of my students actually found one for um translator services and she said that she would have to be

on the phone for 5 hours a day and she wasn't willing to do that so I understand like there might be some things where for that particular contract they they it requires a lot of time you may have to like uh physically go somewhere and provide the service and you may not be willing to do that just depending on what state or whatever the case may be so I totally get that but you just want to make sure that it's you know don't make it too hard because sometimes it can be super easy and we

like to make things hard and all you have to do is translate some documents so you never really know because and the reason why that's important is because sometimes when they there's a straight translation like AI type of translation or using like Google what is it called what's whatever that thing is like it might not Translate exactly the way the normal language is it just does like word for word like it translates every single word instead of making it a natural language that's why they use human interpretation services or human um you know even linguistic

Services because they want to have that that smooth language understanding for the person who's actually going to be receiving the translation the number eight service is going to be Courier and delivery service why because if you already have a van or a box truck or something you can easily um find Courier Services and it may not listed under Courier so again it's very very important to know your NES code and any variant that's related to that NES code it might just be delivery services you never really know so you want to make sure that you're

looking at some solicitations to see if they're using different language and you just write all those keywords and keep them somewhere so you know when you're looking for contracts and it's Career Services but they don't name it career services and you know what you're looking for so that's easy if you already have the of course the the vehicles and you already know how to do it you already done it and it's in your local area what whatever you feel is the reason why it might be easy for you and I feel like it's one of

the easier ones because it doesn't require a whole lot of you know management you could just use you know employees or just do it yourself so I think that's really really important so that's the number eight so the number nine is event planning and coordination so if you're the designated person in your family that does event planning this should be relatively easy for you I am the designated event planner in my family I coordinate stuff it's always about how I set things up and everybody leans on my every word when it comes to planning events

planning parties planning trips and so if you're that person you've been doing that there are event planning contracts it may not again may not be called event planning it might say um parties for Department of the army or it might say event for Department of of the army you know it might not say event planning it might just say event it might say um MWR which is morale welfare and something it might be an event that the um the organization the MWR organization is putting together and they might need someone to coordinate all the little

intricate details when it comes to that specific event within the MWR for that specific agency so it's really really important to kind of understand that language as well when you look at a solicitation that is related to event planning so always you know follow those NES codes and um any PSC codes nigp codes to see if there's like a different verbiage that they're using for event planning so that's the number nine number 10 is vehicle maintenance and repair why would that be easy if you're a mechanic if you're a mechanic and you do this you

do this in real life then that should be relatively simple to find contracts for that so use what you already know in order to get these contracts repair if you're the repair master of all Masters look for a contract related to that look for vehicle repair look for vehicle maintenance look for you know it might be um a different type of vehicle it might be aircraft where you're like I don't do aircraft um maintenance but you might know someone that does and you can get that contract and then bring that person in cuz they may

not know anything about Government Contracting so that should be easy for you guys and so that is number 10 so number 11 is facility maintenance ooh my favorite right so facility maintenance is usually like um HVAC or anything related to air um you know anything related to facility maintenance but it can also include other types of uh structural maintenance so it could be drywall it could be um paint it could be um you know it could be Landscaping it could be something like that so so facility maintenance and repair um should be relatively easy again

if you're already in the industry or you like with me I wanted like diversity even though it falls under a lot of the janitorial and all those things fall under facility Management Facility support and maintenance however you want to categorize it a lot of my um contracts kind of fall under the umbrella but they also individual as well so you know it kind of keeps me Diverse and I'm not saying that you need to just do a whole bunch of services cuz I do not recommend that but I have most of my contractors they do

multiple things because that's just they're in like the construction world and so they can do a lot of repair cuz maintenance is repair it's not you know new build or anything like that so it should be relatively easy if you're you know sticking with the same type of um services to this agency so that is the number 11 so the number 12 for all my Northerners you know what I'm saying like snow removal now snow removal I'm going to say in the gram scheme of things is easy but it's not easy when you don't know

anything about snow like if you live in California and you've never seen snow and then you're getting a contract in Alaska for a snow plow then just be you know have an understanding of what that solicitation is asking for are they saying you know you can only get paid a certain amount for every single snow plow but what if it's like a you know icy what if it's a different I guess it's like different type of snow like type two snows type one snow look that's all new to me I just growing up in Massachusetts

snow was snow I didn't really know if I knew a difference but apparently there's a difference in noow so you have to just make sure that you are understanding What that particular contract or what that solicitation is asking for if you are going to sub this workout or you going to get behind a snow plow and do it yourself so that's number 12 number 13 pest control services same thing if you're not afraid of pest start a pest control company get certified and then also with that you can do like pesticides you can you know

not just you know killing putting putting traps down but you're also if you have U I guess it's a pesticide um certification then there's other things that you're you're allowed to do and then they also with Pest Control they have Wildlife I have a um a pretty good friend that he is really not on the bug side but on the animal side and he knows everything about he knows everything about bugs and animals it's very interesting it's very I didn't think I really wanted to know about like rats and raccoons and stuff but it's really

interesting when someone really really knows what they're doing um when it comes to Wildlife but that usually falls under pest control so it's easy because you are already in the industry right so you could just get a government contract for that number 14 would be Graphic Design Services yes there are Graphic Design Services when it comes to like the military this they have murals painted and they have paintings painted they have pictures they have you know digital print they have all these things that they actually do need logos um logos whether it's like a design

logo or even like slogans they look for those things constantly a lot of agencies do or they might just need one for an event and so you know you design a graphic and you already do this then you can absolutely find this to be a very easy industry within Government Contracting so number 15 is marketing and public relations again if you're in the industry should be easy marketing is becoming very very large in the Government Contracting space I'm starting to see a lot of marketing contracts because there's a lot of narratives that need to be

adjusted and then on top of that we're this is 2024 so there's an election coming up so this would be a great time if you're in marketing or public relations to try to jump on some of these contracts that going to be related to you know voting or any anything to do with the election so right now this is what August of 2024 this is a really good time if you can get into um you know the industry like you know what today's the day Sheena today's the day I'm going to bid on a contract

cuz I'm in marketing or I'm in public relations there's election coming up I'm going to shoot my shot I'm going to shoot my shot this is a great time to do it so you're in the industry go out and do great things that's what I want for you right so another thing number 16 is going to be photography duh if you're a photographer so I just saw a contract for photography and they wanted like people to walk walk around on Wall Street and take pictures of people and it was it was massive it was a

massive contract and it was like kind of fun it was kind of fun to read because they really did need a lot of intricate details and if you're a photographer then this should be like pretty like understanding pretty normal for you um with the different type of shots that they need videos that they need you know videography um I know it's a little bit separate not everybody does videography and videographers don't always do just still photos but it should be there's contracts for that contracts for photography and videography there's plenty of them on the Federal

side local side and especially the corporate side because a lot of Corporations they want to show what they're doing behind the scenes and show that they're you know a caring company and that they want to do great things for the community or great things for their employees so photography and videography are excellent Industries to get into if you're already in excellent contracts that you can get and you know the recognition that you would get and the resume you know you're building up your resume by doing that you know it's cool that you shot your family

reunion but imagine saying you know i' I've done videos on Wall Street like that's an amazing um Resume Builder Okay so the next thing number 17 is Staffing Staffing is really really I say I've seen mostly Staffing on the corporate side so Staffing is one of those things where you got to love it okay you got to love Staffing I don't love Staffing I don't like Staffing I don't even almost like Staffing I I have a disdain for Staffing myself but a lot of things we do really in Government Contracting is kind of based on

Staffing and we don't look at it like that because if you hire someone to fulfill a contract you kind of like Staffing because you're not coming up with an invention but nonetheless if you're just a if you're basically a staffing company and you're providing like you know a resource of people then it's a great thing to get into corporate Contracting and I've seen a lot on federal Contracting especially when it comes to like national disasters or national like the CDC does this a lot where they need a you know uptick of doctors and nurses and

and Specialists and they need a staffing company to provide all these people all these great people so Staffing is relatively easy because you are already in Industry you already know how to find the people how to vent them you have your own process and then you just looking for the agency that needs the Staffing and that is number 17 so number 18 is training and workshops this is especially near and dear to my heart if you've seen the video with um Alvar that I did an interview with her about I don't know a couple of

weeks ago I'll leave the link in the description but she does um training and workshops and she is a master at it and a lot of people don't know that these agencies don't know that they need the training in the workshops and so with that is going to include you know a lot of unsolicited proposals like hey you need this school you need this so you submit them an unsolicited proposal and then you're able to implement a training program that you came up with you're not bidding you're not having to go and you know adhere

to what the agency is asking for if you especially if you know you you know better and you can offer them a better service then you just offer the service on the onset you're like you know what my kids go to such and such school so I'm going to offer them unsolicited proposal and say look my kids either I went to the school my kids go to the school currently or they used to go to this school then and you're familiar then you can give them an unsolicited proposal and say I think you guys need

to implement this program it would be really good for you all so but there's also corporations that are looking for um training programs they want to make they want to build the culture they want the culture to be good and lovely and friendly and so they they look for these trainings um to send their people to cuz they're not doing it internally and that could a really really good price point for you because you're kind of setting your own price name your own price tool you're doing a name your own price tool when it comes

to you know the unsolicited proposals and doing those um educational packages and training so that is the number 18 so the number 19 thing is Furniture Supply and installation and moving so you got a moving company like the government does moving services on the federal side anyone who's been in the military you know that the they you can have a company the government will pay for a company to come out and move Mo your stuff to your next Duty station so that is like you know it's this it's kind of weird cuz I think everyone

in the military has had something stolen if you had something like just share just share if you had anything I had my CD book stolen my CD book y'all I haven't gotten it back yet but anyways the government does pay for um service members military service members to have their stuff move I'm sure they do that probably for civilians too if they're going to be working for the federal government let's say overseas they can have a company um come and pack up all your stuff and move it for you so that's very much so a

um a great industry to be in a super I would say it's pretty easy low barrier to entry you just need a you know a truck and a dream usually and some people so it's a really really good thing now I I'm going to add like with the moving but this is also with Transportation personally I had my car move from Texas to Massachusetts and so you know a regular company drove my car up to um Massachusetts way back when I you know early in my military years and that was a government contract of course

unbeknownst to me it was a government contract and the guy just communicated with me he was driving through a snowstorm and everything to get my baby get my my Dodge Neon my Dodge Neon up to me okay so that's like a moving slash um transportation contract as well so if you have like some kind of hauler where you can haul Vehicles that's I've seen I am a recipient of that contract um as a as a client so that's something that is you know something to think about so that's 19 so the number 20 thing is

security serves I've talked about this maybe a couple of times on my channel but Security Services is needed everywhere Federal local corporate and so I see them pretty often I actually saw a security contract so let me let me tell yall a little Story Time real quick so this young lady reached out to me well actually no I met her in person at I was getting a service done so I'm not going to say what the service is but um I met her and she just was like oh government contract and she was telling me

that she was having a hard time trying to learn how to do it so I was like okay so she literally like Mees I gave her my number which that was early in the days when I used to you know when I didn't charge as much and so she um like kept texting kept calling and I was like okay fine I'm going to help you out and so I found like the perfect contract for her y'all perfect it was in a local city that's not that far from her they needed two security guards um they

needed two security guards like twice two or three times a week to guard the parking lot of the library parking lot of the library un arm so you didn't have to worry about them having guns or nothing and she disappeared off the face of the Earth I'm like hey I you know I called or I emailed the agency to ask cuz it was something that there was unclear and I asked hey blah blah blah the agency responded back right away um I told her these are the parameters there all you need to do here's a

documentation sis disappeared she disappeared still don't know if she alive to this day and so I'm like okay but it was a great contract and so it just helped me like kind of look and say wow this really it doesn't have to be armed security that's guarding the the the gate you know the gate on post on on base but it could be something easy like guarding Library this is a local contract this wasn't even Federal so you can if you have a security business that's pretty easy um especially if they're unarmed you know like

Top Flight security like uh DayDay they can you know easily just wear whatever uniform and make sure that nothing nothing funny is happened at the library so you know that's a to me a very easy one I should have just went ahead and bit on it and then figured out what I was going to do but I was like no I'm going stay in my lane and not go after something that I don't really fully understand um because I don't believe in that but anyway so I want to give you those 20 easier for beginner

contracts and it's only because if you already have you already do this industry out of the one of the 20 that I have mentioned if you already do it then it should be relatively easy for you to go into that in the government contract because people ask me all the time which industry should I choose now if you got one of those 20 that's the industry you should start with start with that industry so I have my course govcon now where I teach you about Federal Contracting local Contracting corporate Contracting I have a a section

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schedule calls with me and make sure that you are on the right path or the path that you want to get to for your Government Contracting Journey so until next time it's your favorite video