Developing Rates for Government Contracts, Part 2

Welcome back for Part II! Last post we discussed the various type of contracts (Firm Fixed Price, Time & Materials, and Cost Plus Fixed Fee) and started to get into what we call indirect cost “pools” – Fringe, Overhead and General & Administrative. For this post, we will delve a bit further into what makes […]

Implementing a Lightweight Google-Like Search Using .Net

One of the requirements for my current project was to implement searching capabilities that were “Google-like”.  When I heard this, I immediately thought about solr, which some colleagues have recommended as an enterprise search engine. And it does look good. However, after reading the description, I realized that this wasn’t a good fit for my […]

Developing Rates for Government Contracts, Part 1

Zekiah has been working in the complicated government contracting world for over a decade as a small business. In that time, we have been asked many times by other companies, most of the time new starts ups but sometimes established companies much larger than us, how to develop indirect rates for Cost Plus Fixed Fee […]

Zekiah Staff Volunteers at Give Camp

On the weekend of April 1-3, 68 dedicated volunteers gathered together hoping to improve the outreach of multiple local charities through technology. The draw for all of these volunteers was the second annual Southern Maryland GiveCamp, hosted at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. GiveCamp brings technology to local charities by connecting volunteers and charities together […]