A small, free set of practical checklists for small businesses that sell to (or want to sell to) government and enterprise buyers. Everything here is the kind of discipline a careful contractor applies before spending time on a bid, standing up a federal registration, or securing a small office.
No sign-up, no upsell. Read it, or install the checklists as agent skills and let your assistant walk you through them.
- bid-no-bid-checklist: a rigorous bid/no-bid triage for small firms: solicitation-type gating, the compliance and attestation kill-checks that should make you no-bid rather than fudge a certification, insurance and bonding requirements with timing, past-performance honesty rules, submission-mechanics reality checks, and small-business participation goals.
- sam-registration-checklist: a clean, current walkthrough of registering in SAM.gov (UEI, CAGE, TIN matching), keeping NAICS and PSC codes accurate and free of retired-code traps, the federal socioeconomic programs and state/corporate diversity certifications, and the revalidation cadence that keeps you active.
- smb-it-security-basics: the pragmatic security baseline a good managed-service provider implements on day one: MFA, patching cadence, 3-2-1 backups with restore testing, email security, least-privilege access reviews, and clean offboarding.
Published by IT Custom Solution LLC, an NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise and a multi-practice technology and services firm. We wrote these because they are the checklists we wish more small firms had before they burned hours on unwinnable bids or claimed a certification they had not earned. The gift is the point.
Just read it. Each file is a standalone Markdown checklist. Open the ones you need.
Or install as agent skills. The checklist files are written in the agent-skill format, with a name and description in the frontmatter, so a compatible AI coding assistant or agent can load them and walk you through the checklist interactively. Drop a folder into your assistant's skills directory (consult your assistant's documentation for the exact location), and reference the skill by name.
Released under the MIT License (see LICENSE). Use it, adapt it, share it, build on it. Attribution appreciated, not required.
This is general, practical guidance, not legal, procurement, tax, or security advice, and not a compliance program. Rules, code editions, and program requirements change. Always verify against the actual solicitation, the current guidance at SAM.gov / SBA.gov / your certifying authority, and qualified professional advice for your situation.