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CBDisk^TM -- COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY (Electronic Database) on Disk, and Online (America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and the Internet) - Produced and Published daily & weekly since 1993

(For ORDERING information, and for FREE 4-week trial offer, please see bottom of this product's description)

Powerful search & retrieval software is totally menu-driven and furnishes all search results in less than one second!

CBDisk^TM is the electronic version of the government's "Commerce Business Daily" (CBD), and is an absolute MUST publication for all government contractors and subcontractors and all companies entering this market.

The U.S. government is the world's largest customer for every conceivable product and service, and CBDisk^TM is the electronic version of the Government Printing Office's printed "Commerce Business Daily" (CBD), the primary source for finding out about upcoming purchases from government agencies nationwide. CBDisk^TM also lists all CBD contract awards so that companies can contact awardees for subcontract work.

Government Data Publications has been enhancing and re-publishing "Commerce Business Daily" data since 1959 in many variations and formats for maximum utilization by its users.

In fact, during the computer era's "infancy", when the U.S. Small Business Administration needed development of a program allowing it to monitor nationwide compliance by government contractors within the provisions of Public Law 95-507 based on the data contained in the daily CBD, it awarded the contract to Government Data Publications. Under the same contract, Government Data Publications then ran this computer operation for the SBA, producing detailed monthly contract reports and disseminating them to SBA offices nationwide.

CBDisk^TM is the complete printed version of the CBD, containing all procurement, award and other notices. CBDisk^TM boasts a lightning-fast search and retrieval engine which not only gives instant results but is buttressed by robust software which automates the process of zero-ing in on prime and subcontract opportunities. The software is also designed to eliminate the possibility of missing the many mis-categorized listings of the CBD, and there are thousands a year. (In its SAVED Search mode, just one keystroke gets your sales leads to your screen.)

TIME is today's most expensive and precious commodity, and CBDisk's SAVE SEARCH feature alone easily saves you hundreds of hours a year! The SAVE SEARCH feature can be used for every one of your searches whether you are looking for contracts to bid on, or monitoring competitors, or searching for SUBcontract opportunities, or for dozens of other kinds of "reports". No matter how many search routines you have keyed in, and no matter how intricate, complicated, fine-tuned or extensive your search routines may be, all the results will be on your screen within a second after clicking on "LOAD SAVED SEARCH"! Compare this with the frequently bottlenecked internet which can cost you thousands of dollars a year time-wise (while CBDisk^TM which gives you all search results instantly, costs only about a cup of coffee a day). We invite you to test this out for yourself -- cost free and risk free -- with our 4-week FREE trial offer. (In fact, you can compare CBDisk^TM that way against ANY CBD service.)

CBDisk^TM ideally combines the virtues of simplicity with the capabilities of the most sophisticated market research on products, services and companies.

If all you want are upcoming sales opportunities for specific categories relating to YOUR business, simply click on them. You can then save your search so that subsequent issues require just clicking on "LOAD SAVED SEARCH", and you get only the categories that you want (still being able to get to the all the others at any time you want or need to).

But CBDisk^TM is much, much more than just a series of listings. CBDisk is a true database with an easy-to-use totally menu-driven, incredibly powerful search & retrieval engine. For this reason more and more CBD subscribers and government contractors are "coming aboard", and, in fact, many who tried the internet are returning also. (They find the internet increasingly slow and cumbersome, much more time-consuming, and when all is said and done, in most cases simply merely a more glamorous version of "limp" listings.)
CBDisk's database software, on the other hand, allows sophisticated market research in an incredibly simple manner on all products and services, and also facilitates utilizing the CBD in many additional ways.

Following are just a few specific examples of the type of information easily accessible to you with the robust database features of CBDisk...

Aside from making sure you NEVER miss a sales lead (particularly important since the GAO found that over 5% of CBD listings appear in the wrong Category!)...

CBDisk's true database capabilities also give you dozens of
Dynamic NEW ways to use the CBD!

("Impossible Dreams" with other CBD services)

1. All Small Business set-asides automatically in a flash!
If you're "small business" (generally if you have less than 500 employees) you can identify in less than 1 second ALL the upcoming contracts that are 100% SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESS, or labor surplus area set-asides, or set-asides for disadvantaged business concerns, etc.

2. Automatic AWARD notification of contracts pre-selected by YOU!
You notice an upcoming procurement that you want to do subcontract work for, so naturally you'll want to know as soon as the contract is awarded and to whom. Simply key in the SOL #, or other identifiers, save the search, and.as soon as CBD has the award, it will pop on your screen automatically.

3. Automatically monitor SPECIFIC companies YOU select!
Assume you want to keep an eye on certain companies or agencies. Simply key their names in once, save the search, and they'll automatically flash on the screen whenever they appear in the CBD. You can print out this data, distribute it around your office as needed, whatever. If you want to do market research on these same companies or agencies, you can search backwards with equal ease, examining all your PAST CBDisks to find out about their activities and getting a total picture!

4. Previous PRICE info to help you get the Contracts!
You see an upcoming contract you intend to bid on, and you want to improve your chances of getting the job by finding out about such vital information as previous prices, the names of your likely competitors, etc. Simply search past CBDisks to get this business intelligence fast!

5. Monitor and concentrate on MOST ACTIVE Companies & Agencies!
If you're primarily after subcontracts, it makes sense to concentrate on the most active primecontractors. This is easily accomplished by letting CBDisk sort contracts in alphabetical awardee order. This way you'll identify the heavy hitters, type them into a search, save the search, and monitor them from then on automatically. (You can even anticipate and contact them BEFORE they receive a contract, once you note an upcoming procurement they're likely to bid on!) If you are after PRIMEcontracts, you can research the most promising Agencies in the same way and concentrate on them.

6. RETRIEVE, SORT, EXPORT or PRINT OUT incredibly meaningful Market Intelligence!
You can sort all your search results in many different ways (by awardee, agency, product, due dates, dollar value, contract numbers, etc.) You can then scroll the information on your screen or print it out in various easy-to-use formats. By having this more organized presentation before you, you'll find patterns and connections that you might otherwise miss.

7. Unique Retrieval Engine sparks MARKET RESEARCH Chain Reactions!
By being able to manipulate, extract and sort data at will, you'll find yourself getting a grip on government business or subcontracts as never before. For example, monitoring companies in your field will often lead you to jobs that YOU could have done but were not aware of; these findings in turn may lead you to new agencies with even more new opportunities, and may in fact give you ideas about further new products or variations you could make and sell. With CBDisk's search-and-retrieval capabilities, these chain-reactions are quite common and can be dynamite!

8. SCROLL and BROWSE, whenever you wish, as with a printed copy!
You can scroll through CBDisk just as with the familiar paper version, but you'll find it easy reading - no more squinting at tiny print. In addition you can always create your own printed version on your printer with cleaner, sharper, LARGER letters.

9. Print out ALL or SELECTIVELY whatever information YOU want!
You can print out any of your search results in various formats for yourself or for distribution within your office (in fact, you'll find yourself following up in a much more organized way and still spend less time than you do now!)

10. Dynamic Sub-Menus allows "short-hand" scanning of SPECIFIC items!
CBDisk also allows you to scan each issue selectively by specific items. For example, if you quickly want to see ALL the contractors involved in the period you are checking, you can scroll through an alphabetical listing in seconds. This gives you a visual scan of companies you may be looking for, and you'll also likely come across names that may surprise you. You can do the same for agencies, products, due dates, individual government contact names, etc. Hit a key, and you get complete further info on any of these items.

11. Automatically highlights Preferential Small Business SUBcontract Opportunities!
Say you're a "small business" and you want to get an automatic listing of all contracts likely entitling you to preferential subcontracts under Public Law 95-507. With CBDisk, you simply ask to select all contracts over $500,000, and in less than 1 second they're on your screen. Save this search, and you'll get all $500,000 plus contract listings automatically from then on.

12. Global Word Index makes sure you find every detail you're looking for and miss nothing!
And thanks to the all-encompassing global word index you are able to instantly check on any product, service, solicitation number, contract number, IFB number, spec number, etc. This is also an incredible aid if you have only sketchy information, or partial names, or when you're "fishing" for unexpected leads.

13. CBDisk^TM solves the problem of CBD Misclassifications!
In addition CBDisk^TM has solved the problem of CBD Category misclassification (a much more frequent occurrence than most executives ever realized), which made many companies miss profitable sales and subcontract opportunities. (If you are using, or contemplate using, a CBD service which limits you to only a given number of categories, you are really taking a chance because you will automatically miss every single sales opportunity that is misclassified into a category you are not receiving.)

14. Most features can also be accomplished completely AUTOMATICALLY!
And since you can save your searches, most of these features can be fully automatic. Just press LOAD SEARCH and ALL of your research results from all of your searches flash to your screen instantly as you receive each issue!

LOW COST, too!
Amazingly, CBDisk^TM costs even less than the suddenly "old-fashioned" printed CBD, and in addition CBDisk^TM subscribers also receive -- at no extra cost -- CBD/on CD-ROM, a $199.00 value. This free CD-ROM contains an entire year's CBD's affording you a tremendously powerful marketing engine for competitor monitoring, award history, previous price information, product requirement analysis, etc. This CD-ROM gives all of your issues permanent value and frees up any diskettes or disk space that would normally hold past issues.

So there is little wonder that CBD subscribers have been upgrading to CBDisk^TM in droves.

The ONLINE CBDisk^TM versions are available daily or weekly via America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and The Internet. They comprise Identical Service and Software as the diskette version, but you by-pass diskette handling and shipment time so that you have the data days earlier.

Always the undisputed CBD service leader, the ONLINE versions offer...
the same superior features in every respect
the same robust search & retrieval engine
the same super-lightning speed
the same sorting, printing, and exporting capabilities
and the same unlimited use at the same low fixed cost...
NO meter ticking ever...NO access charges ever...NO connect time fees ever...NO connect hassles ever...NO downloading costs per bid, item, search, listing, profile, or "anything".

Because the U.S. government is the world's largest customer for every conceivable product and service, CBDisk^TM -- whether diskette or online -- is used by thousands of companies who want to get their share of this business.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: If you are in any way involved in any kind of research & development or engineering activities, please also see our RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORY and R&D CONTRACTS MONTHLY listings. These publications report on contracts in those fields, and are enhanced by GDP's categorization into far more specific categories than is done by the CBD.

On Weekly DISKETTE -- only $319 annually (includes $199 CBD on/CD-ROM at no extra charge)

On Weekly ONLINE -- only $319 annually (includes $199 CBD on/CD-ROM at no extra charge)

On Daily ONLINE -- only $399 annually (includes $199 CBD on/CD-ROM at no extra charge)