IE APEX Accelerator

Assisting Riverside and San Bernardino businesses in government contracting since 1996.

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What is IE APEX?

Inland Empire APEX Accelerator ​​​helps businesses identify, compete for, and win government contracts. Free assistance comes in the forms of teaching, mentoring, and coaching.​ We also provide our clients with a complete set of tools to research and identify government-contracting opportunities. 

The Inland Empire ​APEX Accelerator is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense.​

Learning Outcomes & Services

Through our services, Riverside and San Bernardino County entrepreneurs learn how to:

• • • • ​Conduct market research, find government opportunities, and establish relationships with agencies
      • Execute SAM and other governmental vendor registrations
      • Read and understand government bid and proposal solicitations
      • Locate businesses - large and small - to form partnering agreements between firms
      • Prepare, review, and finalize a bid or proposal
      • Locate technical information and pricing data
      • Understand RFID, UID, and packaging standards
      • Navigate 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, EDWOSB, DBE certifications, and Veteran-owned business verification
      • Prepare for pre-bid conferences, short-list interviews, debriefings, and pre-award meetings
      • Participate in electronic and other Internet-based bid opportunities
      • Properly submit an invoice, including Wide-Area WorkFlow
      • Handle post-award contract administration