1. ‣Ties information from disparate government data sources so that officers can see activity of contracting officers at other offices within various agencies, what they are buying, how much they paying for those products, and which vendors they are purchasing from, and more
   

2. ‣Measure the total scope of a relationship with any individual company or group of companies by tying CCR data to FPDS data, and enhancing it with SBA PRONET data. Identifies subsidiaries that also may be selling into the agency under a different name.
   

3. ‣Enhances a government organization’s ability to analyze and evaluate suppliers by proximity, review their actual past performance, and determine contracting risks for time of delivery considerations.
   

4. ‣FEDMINE™ is unique in this regard, because it aggregates data from various disparate but authoritative federal government data sources in real time and integrates them on the fly in a manner that provides rare insights into key federal spending activity at each agency, with full details on each transaction for all federal contractors. Such efficiency, up until now, has never been achieved. The database is made available to users via a powerful, intuitive user interface that uses multi-level drill-down to provide the level of detail needed for organizations to make smart business decisions.

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ON THE VAGARIES OF INJUSTICE

Ashok Mehan is the sole founder and creator of FEDMINE.US, a company he started in 2004 playing around looking under the hood of his new Macintosh Pro computer, which came pre-installed with plenty of open source tools.... like MySQL, PhP, Perl, and the Unix command line interface to name a few. Ashok is a businessman, he never was and still not is, a programmer by any stretch of imagination. He never even learnt html, leave alone Unix or PhP!

But there was something about the ease of learning on Apple Computer products that allowed him to single handedly build a prototype that would eventually become the enterprise class suite of applications that FEDMINE.US is today. He learnt how to construct MySQL tables on his own, obtained an O’Reilly’s technical books subscription and learnt how to load data into the database, and hired a brilliant programmer 4,000 miles away to help him access that data. Needless to say, that was then and this is now.

Ashok did try to throw in the towel on many occasions on the way to final product launch in the summer of 2007, but each time he found himself further along the Rubicon that he had crossed a long time ago. Essentially, there was no turning back, at least that is what his wife told him.

During the years building and growing his previous company from 1990 - 2002, he experienced the inherent difficulties many small businesses like his suffered while trying breaking into the federal sector, and he soon realized just how difficult the environment was, which not surprisingly remains so till today.  

One of the most surprising things to strike Ashok was the fact that despite the US government being the biggest customer in the world, there were less than a handful of firms providing business intelligence information to track what the federal government was buying.

In other words, no company had seriously contemplated to challenge the supremacy of those handful of establishments ruling the roost for more than 25 years dishing out mediocre products at premium prices. And to top it all, there were no companies anywhere at or near the horizon that one would expect to find in this heartland of innovation working on new ways to deliver information to the small businesses, and tapping various unmet needs of a hungry federal business sector bursting at it seams.

Even worse, existing providers were heavily focused on gaining clients in just the large corporate sector, with a narrowly focused strategy on following Information Technology spending only, leaving the other 65% (or $340 Billion) to the wind.

So if you belonged to the construction, environmental, chemicals, shipping, health, pharmaceutical, or any one of the long list of industry names that make up non-IT industry sectors, you were out of luck !!

And if you were a small business in any industry sector.... whether IT or non-IT.... you were still way out of luck!!

There was something wrong with this picture.... so Ashok did some quick math.... over 90% of companies registered to do business with uncle Sam are small, they account for 60% of growth in the economy, create 2 out of every 3 jobs, are the engine of growth and blah blah, are responsible for getting us out of a recession, and most importantly..... are drivers of change and innovation this country is known the world over for.... yet.... how come no single company was even seriously considering to attend to their needs? What? Total injustice in the land of plenty?

The two Executive Orders President Obama signed on April 27, 2010 are testimony to this very problem at hand.

Then.....as Sanford use to say.... came the big one....

Between 2008 and the fall of 2010... one by one, 4 of the 5 companies providing information in the federal space got bought by a variety of companies. Worse yet, not a single one of them would outrightly be considered as part of any “consolidation” move within the sector.

But such are the vagaries of injustice when you innovate in the name of small business!

Any new business intelligence tool worthy of your time and consideration must be poised to redefine the way you do business, or else it is not worth your time. 

In other words, it must be a serious game-changing solution in step with your fast paced business expectations with a simple and intuitive design.

FEDMINE is the quintessential tool that permanently changes the way business information is acquired in the federal sector

It is the only online service that provides real time federal market and business research data. Daily recorded transactions in FPDS-NG are cross-linked to FedBizOpps Solicitations, GAO Protests, and many other sources for gaining insights into federal spending quickly.

1. FEDMINE IS FOR:
   

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

1. ‣Federal Contracting Officers
   

2. ‣Acquisitions and Program Management Staff
   

3. ‣OSDBU & SADBU Professionals
   

4. ‣Congressional Lawmakers & Committees
   

5. ‣Small Business Liaison Offices
   

6. ‣Mentor-Protege, PTAC,  SBDC and SCORE offices
   

FEDERAL PRIME CONTRACTORS

1. •Easy to Use - intuitive with deep levels of information
   

2. •Widen Your Scope - see data aggregated in one place for better decision making
   

3. •Size your Market - using the most sophisticated data of its kind 
   

4. •Multi-Level Drill Down - to interconnected Contract Actions, GSA / IDV Contracts, GAO Protests, FedBizOpps & Grant Opportunities
   

5. •Enable the pursuit - of more profitable and longer-term contracts within the core markets
   

6. •Uncover Other Primes - to pursue strategic partnerships within specific agencies
   

7. •Research your Competition - well before you pursue an opportunity
   

ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FOLLOWING AFFINITY CIRCLE

1. ‣CPA, M&A, & Law firms
   

2. ‣Banks & Factoring firms
   

3. ‣GSA Schedule prep firms
   

4. ‣Business Consulting firms
   

5. ‣SDBC offices
   

6. ‣SCORE offices
   

7. ‣PTACs
   

8. ‣Veteran, Women, Minority interest groups
   

9. ‣Contracting Associations
   

10. ‣County Economic Development Organizations