In this episode, we talk with Grant Elam about SCA Rates. This is a high level discussion about the Service Contract Act (SCA) and the obligations that government contractors have under SCA. A large percentage of government contracts require the contractor to be compliant with SCA. What does this mean? As a contractor, you have to know what the rates are per labor category and your company has to properly track the administration of these rates and benefits per employee.

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Featured Guest:	Grant Elam	Company:	Head of Business Development, The Boon Group
Email:	gelam@boongroup.com	Phone:	(512) 652-7562

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In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Your Biggest Enemy. In a nutshell, your biggest enemy is often you. One of my biggest soapboxes is that most business owners don’t really know how to run a business. Business owners are typically experts at their craft/trade, but running a business is a foreign language to them. And when their business struggles, they blame everything but themselves. Breakthroughs often come when you check your ego and realize that you need to change in order to overcome your challenges.

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Featured Guest:	Michael LeJeune	Company:	Partner and Federal Access PM, RSM Federal
Email:	mlejeune@rsmfederal.com	Phone:	(636) 577-5005

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In this episode, we talk with Kevin Jans about Government Contracting Breakpoints and the process-to-relationship ratio at each of the levels. The concept here is that there are four distinct contracting breakpoints. Within each breakpoint, there is a different process to relationship ratio that the contractor needs to learn in order to be successful. Those breakpoints are small (up to 250 K), medium (250 K to 15 M), large (15 M to 100 M) and major contracts (100 M+). The episode primarily focuses on the first three breakpoints and what’s required at each level.

Featured Guest:	Kevin Jans	Company:	President, Skyway Acquisition Solutions
Email:	Kevin@skywayacquisition.com	Phone:	(877) 884-5280

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In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Recession Proofing Your Government Contracting Business. The global economy has been on a bit of a roller coaster since 2020. The last year has been especially brutal with the cost of everything going up and major staffing shortages. Mix in lingering COVID issues, a war, record inflation, and an election cycle and you have the perfect recipe for a recession. If you follow history; you know while recessions are brutal for many people, it’s also historically a time of record growth for others. In this episode, we talk about you can accelerate during the recession.

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Featured Guest:	Michael LeJeune	Company:	Partner and Federal Access PM, RSM Federal
Email:	mlejeune@rsmfederal.com	Phone:	(636) 577-5005

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In this episode, we talk with Michelle Burnett about the HUBZone Contractors National Council. The HUBZone Contractors National Council is a non-profit trade association that advocates for policies that ultimately help bring opportunities to historically underutilized business zones. These opportunities help HUBZone companies grow and thrive and create much needed jobs. This helps strengthen thousands of communities across the country.

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Featured Guest:	Michelle Burnett	Company:	Executive Director, National HUBZone Council
Email:	michelle.burnett@hubzonecouncil.org	Phone:	(240) 442-1787

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