{"id":986,"date":"2012-12-01T02:41:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T02:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=986"},"modified":"2012-12-03T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:29:54","slug":"defense-contracting-competitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2012\/12\/defense-contracting-competitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense contracting getting more competitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-987\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Air-Force-Capt.-Bachelor-a-KC-10-Extender-aircraft-pilot-from_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-987 \" title=\"Air Force Capt. Bachelor - a KC-10 Extender aircraft pilot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Air-Force-Capt.-Bachelor-a-KC-10-Extender-aircraft-pilot-from_small.jpg\" alt=\"Air Force Capt. Bachelor - a KC-10 Extender aircraft pilot\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Air-Force-Capt.-Bachelor-a-KC-10-Extender-aircraft-pilot-from_small.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Air-Force-Capt.-Bachelor-a-KC-10-Extender-aircraft-pilot-from_small-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Force Capt. Bachelor &#8211; a KC-10 Extender aircraft pilot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by Tom Gerbe &#8211; Defense Information Analyst &#8211; BidLink.net<\/p>\n<p>With the fiscal cliff rapidly approaching, defense contractors will need to become more competitive as defense budgets shrink. \u00a0BidLink recently analyzed defense spending by competition from 2003-2012 and discovered that almost half of the contracts awarded from the Defense Department were not competed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-988\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_by_competition_2003_2012_bidlink1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-995\" title=\"defense_spending_by_competition_2003_2012_bidlink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_by_competition_2003_2012_bidlink1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_by_competition_2003_2012_bidlink1.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_by_competition_2003_2012_bidlink1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defense Spending by competition FY 2003-2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This pattern varied by industry with makers of large systems including aircraft dominating markets, while manufacturers of clothing, refrigeration equipment and replacement parts experience a more competitive environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competitive initiatives taking hold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department is committed to increasing competition by delivering more contracts to small businesses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-996\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_competition_annual_breakdown_bidlink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-996 \" title=\"defense_spending_competition_annual_breakdown_bidlink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_competition_annual_breakdown_bidlink.jpg\" alt=\"Percentage of competition for defense contracts by year 2003-2012\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_competition_annual_breakdown_bidlink.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/defense_spending_competition_annual_breakdown_bidlink-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Percentage of competition for defense contracts by year 2003-2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Gerbe &#8211; Defense Information Analyst &#8211; BidLink.net With the fiscal cliff rapidly approaching, defense contractors will need to become more competitive as defense budgets shrink. \u00a0BidLink recently analyzed defense spending by competition from 2003-2012 and discovered that almost half of the contracts awarded from the Defense Department were not competed. This pattern varied &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2012\/12\/defense-contracting-competitive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Defense contracting getting more competitive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}