Summary of Benefits of CICPa

Summary of Benefits of CICP 

The CICP will provide many benefits to potential suppliers, including:

• Being able to connect with potential clients in federal government departments and showcase your innovations to them.
• Entering the commercial market with a successful application of your new product or service.
• Receiving continuous feedback on the use of your product or service in an operational setting to help develop it, before taking it to market.

However even if you are not successful in being awarded a contract from this program, you will still gain the experience of:

• Understanding how to sell to the Government of Canada, the largest buyer of goods and services in Canada.
• Knowing about the opportunities and methods for supplying goods and services to the government.

For More Information

For more information on providing goods or services to the Government of Canada read our ‘How to do Business with the Canadian Government’ article or contact the Office of Small and Medium Enterprise’s (OSME) at:

 

Email:  osme-bpme-pac@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca

Tel:       1-866-602-0403 (toll free)

 

For more information about the Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program visit the Buy and Sell website.

 

For information about the events which innovators can attend to find out more visit Buy and Sell’s events listings.

 

To view the call for proposal visit the government’s e-tendering service, Merx.

Ask the Expert - How to do Business with the Federal Government 

Small Business BC is offering free one-to-one consultations with a Supply Officer from Public Works and Government Services Canada as part of the Ask the Expert series.  Free consultations will take place at the Small Business BC offices in Waterfront Station, Vancouver or via Skype on August 23rd, 2011.

 

These 30 minute sessions allow you to ask the specific questions about the purchasing process, where to find opportunities and how to respond to proposals.

 

Find out more: Ask the Expert - How to do Business with the Federal Government. 

Let us Help Promote Your Innovative Concept

Small Business BC is looking for entrepreneurs who are looking to start a business or who have been in business less than a year, to nominate themselves for the Best Concept Award at this year's Successful You Awards.  If you have a viable business concept that describes the business, its product, the market it serves and the business' competitive advantage - then why not nominate your business.

 

Nominees from last year's awards contest received over $200,000 in media exposure.  Brian and Corin Mullins, winners of the Best Concept Award 2010/11 for their business Holy Crap, have attracted accolades from across Canada since winning the Successful You Award and now plan to duplicate their company's prototype facility and employment plan around the world.  So what are you waiting for?