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GDP — Data, Information, Publications, CBDisk™, govbusiness™, govdata™

GDP Information Products make sure you spend your time USING information, not SEARCHING for it! SM

GOVERNMENT DATA PUBLICATIONS, INC.
2300 "M" Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037

Phone: (800) ASK-GOVT (275-4688)
Fax: (718) 998-5960
E-Mail: gdp@govbusiness.com

 Welcome!
Dear "Visitor":

With reference to the kind of hype you may be hearing from government information services, please remember these facts:
  • Government Data Publications, Inc. has been furnishing value-added specialized government information and contracts data for the private and public sectors since 1959.

    As long ago as the computer era's "infancy", when the U.S. Small Business Administration needed the development of a program allowing it to monitor nationwide compliance by government contractors with the provisions of Public Law 95-507, it awarded its contract to Government Data Publications. Under the same contract, Government Data Publications subsequently ran this entire computer operation for the SBA, producing detailed monthly contract reports and disseminating them to SBA offices nationwide.

  • Government Data Publications has been actively involved in reporting on all areas of the government's operation. Among the earliest publications were nationally recognized volumes on GUIDED MISSILES (first edition 1959), SPACE SYSTEMS (first edition 1960) and SATELLITES (first edition 1961). These were published regularly on an annual basis, and were followed by highly enhanced reports on the nation's research & development activities, both in editorial format ("U.S./R&D", "Multi-Industry Developments Annual") and in contract listing format (R&D CONTRACTS MONTHLY, published uninterruptedly since January of 1959, and the Unique 3-in-1 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORY published annually since 1959).

    Among the technical information services rendered to the nation was also the highly-acclaimed DIRECTORY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT INVENTIONS, a joint venture with the U.S. Department of Commerce.

    But GDP really outshone itself all those years in providing huge databases in the area of government contracts and subcontracts, both in the development of vastly enhanced "Commerce Business Daily" (CBD) information as well as other contracts data.

    The goal invariably went way beyond simple listings of contract opportunities and awards, with the result that its users not only got to know about all contract and subcontract opportunities, but were furnished with the additional tools designed to help them GET the contracts and subcontracts they were after.

  • In order to assure that companies have virtually complete coverage of the entire spectrum of government contract opportunities, Government Data Publications offers the following three major services (all, like govbusiness.com, available for free examination service for your evaluation):

    1. CBDisk™/FedBizOpps
      The premiere electronic version of the CBD (now FedBizOpps) published in diskette format or online since 1993. CBDisk features an incredibly powerful database search and retrieval engine which has taken the industry by storm.

      CBDisk™/FedBizOpps not only makes sure that you find all the sales opportunities relating to your business, but has many additional capabilities that let you analyze the government procurement market, monitor competitor activities and prices, and more, that actually help you GET the contracts you are after.

    2. "Undr25"™
      The "CBD equivalent" service which gives you instant access to the hundreds of thousands of lower dollar value purchases not covered in the CBD. "Undr25" has the same powerful search and retrieval engine as CBDisk, and is also available on diskette or online.

    3. GovBusiness.com™: (the site you are currently in)
      Because of the recent proliferation of government agency web sites posting an ever-increasing number of business opportunities -- in the thousands each week -- GDP has recently completed development of govbusiness.com -- a monumental fully-automated World-Wide-Web Search & Instant Retrieval System. These web sites offer opportunities in every business area, and the contracts range from small business purchases to multi-million dollar contracts.

      govbusiness.com not only collects these thousands of business opportunities every day but flashes the ones relating specifically to subscribers' products and services directly to their PC. (The vast majority of these detailed sales listings, by the way, do not appear in the CBD nor do they come through FACNET.)

      govbusiness.com coverage also extends to State and Local government purchasing agencies.

  • In short, Government Data Publications, Inc. has a veritable arsenal of government-publications, directories, periodicals and electronic databases -- believed to be unparalleled anywhere -- in print, on diskette, on CD-ROM, and Online.

  • Please also note that GDP has always had a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee Policy, permitting you to examine any of its products at no obligation, and permitting you to discontinue any daily, weekly or monthly service or periodical at any time, with full refund tendered for all unsent issues or online transmissions.

It will be our pleasure to add you to our roster of satisfied customers of over 100,000 companies, ranging from the largest global corporations to 2-man machine shops (including 84% of Fortune 500).

GDP's bottom-line goal: To give you the best tools possible for entering the government market, operating in it, and selling your company's products and services successfully to the government and to its primecontractors.