The mentor I went looking for — and couldn't find.

When I started bidding on Defense Logistics Agency contracts, every resource I found was either written for procurement lawyers or shouting about easy money. Neither was true to the work. So after three years of doing the work — winning, fulfilling, and getting paid on real DLA contracts — I started writing down the process I wish someone had handed me on day one.

Marcus Grant

Author, The $38 Billion Opportunity

THE SHORT VERSION

What I do, in plain terms.

→I run a small business that bids on and fulfills DLA contracts — registered in SAM.gov, active CAGE code, quoting on DIBBS like every other vendor.
→I won my first DLA contract working solo, from home — no warehouse, no connections, no clearance.
→I've spent the past 3 years in the bid-win-fulfill cycle, learning the compliance traps and pricing math the hard way.
→I wrote The $38 Billion Opportunity and built the free 30-Day Action Checklist so beginners get a map instead of a sales pitch.

One thing I won't do is promise you results. Government contracting is a real business with real work — sourcing, specs, deadlines, paperwork. What I can promise is that everything I teach is the actual process, the way it actually happens, from someone who does it.

WHY I TEACH THIS

Good work, honestly explained.

Most people who'd be great at this — careful, persistent, detail-oriented people building a second act — never start, because everything they read about government contracting either talks down to them or hypes them up. I think the honest version is more compelling than the hyped one: a public, rules-based market where a small supplier who does the work gets paid by the U.S. Treasury and helps keep the people who serve this country supplied and ready.

Start where I'd start.

The free 30-Day Action Checklist takes you from zero to your first submitted bid, day by day. When you want the full system, the course waitlist is open.

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Questions? marcus@dlaopportunity.com