TMI FEDERAL
TMI turns established industrial companies into government-ready suppliers. We find where federal agencies and major defense contractors already buy what you do. Then we identify what is keeping you out. Then we help build what is missing.
Get your Federal Opportunity Map ↗Registration. Compliance. Systems. Intelligence. Opportunities. Capture.
One team. One roadmap. One operating system.
THE REAL PROBLEM
The facility. The customers. The ability to get the work done. Decades of it, in most cases. None of that is what stands between you and a federal purchase order.
PEOPLE / EQUIPMENT / EXPERIENCE / FACILITY / CUSTOMERS / PROVEN DELIVERY
Registrations, cybersecurity standards, contract clauses, quality requirements, supplier portals, export controls, and buyers who cannot legally send you the drawing until certain things are true. For most capable companies this is the entire gap.
SAM / CAGE / NAICS / PORTALS / NIST / CMMC / DFARS / CUI / ITAR / CLAUSES / QUALITY
Anyone can send you a list of government opportunities. That does not mean you can win them. TMI prepares the company to actually take the work.
WE DO NOT JUST FIND CONTRACTS
Before we tell you to chase a contract, we work out whether you should. Can you perform it? Can you qualify for it? Can you legally receive the information? Can your systems protect the data? Can your shop meet the requirements? Can your suppliers support it?
And the two questions most lists never ask: can you make money on it, and what needs to change before you bid? A pursued contract you cannot deliver profitably is worse than one you never saw.
A list tells you what exists. Intelligence tells you what is worth your time.
THE TMI FEDERAL SYSTEM
Each one depends on the one before it. Registration without a market is paperwork; a market without readiness is a list of things you will lose.
Map where the government already buys what your company does. Agencies, defense branches, prime contractors, historic awards, incumbents, contract values, buying offices, NAICS and PSC codes, recurring purchases, subcontracting and supplier programs, upcoming opportunities. You stop asking whether the government buys what you do and start seeing who buys it, how much they spend, who currently wins it, and how you get in.
Audit the company against the work you actually want. You may need SAM, UEI, CAGE, SBA certifications, supplier registrations, a federal capability statement, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC readiness, DFARS processes, CUI controls, export-control preparation, quality systems, document control, physical security, insurance, bonding, or past performance. Or, for a specific opportunity, none of them. We do not make you buy everything.
Most consultants hand you a checklist. TMI coordinates the work between your company, your IT provider, quality professionals, cybersecurity specialists, export-control professionals, and outside assessors where they are required. Instead of the owner managing five vendors and translating between them, TMI becomes the operating layer.
Your government work should not live in someone’s head. One place for opportunities, qualification, compliance requirements, contracts, documents and clauses, suppliers cleared to receive protected information, deadlines, certification expiries, buyer relationships, and pipeline. Your company’s federal command centre.
If you want defense manufacturing work, cybersecurity becomes part of the sale. TMI coordinates readiness around NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, DFARS, Federal Contract Information and Controlled Unclassified Information, incident response, physical security, supplier flowdowns, evidence, and system security plans — working with your existing IT provider wherever possible. The goal is the smallest practical protected environment that lets you safely perform the work, not a rip-out because someone has a product to sell.
Match government demand against your actual capabilities rather than keywords: equipment, materials, processes, tolerances, certifications, people, capacity, geography, turnaround, past performance, supplier network, workable contract size, margin requirements, and current compliance level. Then rank what is worth pursuing.
Once the company is ready, TMI can stay on as your outsourced federal growth team: opportunity monitoring, bid/no-bid decisions, buyer research, prime targeting, supplier registrations, teaming, RFQ tracking, capability packages, proposal support, follow-up, pipeline management, compliance monitoring, renewals, and the next opportunity.
WHAT FEDERAL INTELLIGENCE LOOKS LIKE
Instead of scrolling hundreds of listings, you open one view and see whether something is worth your week.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE — NOT A REAL AWARD, CLIENT, OR RESULT
TMI RECOMMENDATION — PURSUE
THE OFFER
In 90 days, build the foundation your company needs to pursue government and defense work: a clear market, a roadmap, a compliance path, and a federal sales system. We start by answering four questions, then build the plan around the answers.
Your real capabilities translated into how federal buyers describe and purchase them.
Agencies, branches, buying offices, and the prime contractors who need suppliers like you.
The specific registrations, systems, controls, and evidence you are missing for the work you want.
Every action, every owner, every dependency, every deadline.
WHAT YOU GET
A binder does not win work. A SAM registration does not win work. A certification does not win work. We are building a new revenue channel inside your company — one that keeps working after the project ends.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Companies already doing real work, with employees, equipment, customers and years of history — companies that could perform government work tomorrow if the business around the work was ready.
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF
TMI does not sell access to free government money, and nobody can promise you an award. We build serious companies into serious federal suppliers.
WHY TMI
Technology, operations, cybersecurity, process, data, documentation, sales, intelligence, people, suppliers. That is already what TMI works on. We do not treat government contracting as a separate little sales channel bolted onto the side. We prepare the company itself to support a new class of customer.
START HERE
We analyse your company and show you where the federal market actually intersects with what you already do — then the exact plan to get there.
Who in government buys what you already do
How much they spend
Which prime contractors could need you
Contracts similar to your capabilities
What registrations you need
What compliance could apply
What is currently keeping you from competing
Your highest-value path into the market
TMI IS NOT A LAW FIRM, A CERTIFYING BODY, OR AN ACCREDITED ASSESSOR. WE COORDINATE READINESS AND BRING IN QUALIFIED SPECIALISTS AND ASSESSORS WHERE THEY ARE REQUIRED.
Federal work does not begin with a six-figure programme. It begins with registrations, a capability statement and a map of who actually buys what you make. That package is $7,500.
See where federal starts ↗TMI FEDERAL