Take the Chaos Out of Government Contracting: Smarter Pursuit Decisions with MERIT

Most BD teams are not short on opportunities. They are short on clarity.

Pipelines get filled. Teams get pulled together. Decisions get made across email, spreadsheets, and scattered inputs. By the time leadership steps in, the path is already set -- whether it makes sense or not.

This session walks through exactly how to fix that.

MERIT organizes the front end of capture -- where opportunities are qualified, teams are built, and go/no-go decisions are made before time and money are committed. One place. Forced alignment. Earlier.

In this live walkthrough you will see how to:

  • Break down an opportunity and surface what actually matters. 
  • Evaluate team fit and identify gaps before they become problems. 
  • Bring BD, capture, and recruiting into the same workflow. 
  • Make clearer pursue or pass decisions based on real inputs, not momentum.

This is a working session built around how decisions actually get made in GovCon. Not a high-level overview. Not a product pitch.

If your team is still running capture through email threads and spreadsheets, this is worth your time.

Live walkthrough. May 7. 1:00 PM ET.

See video here

Register here

Speaker Details

Jovan A Silva

Jovan A. Silva is the CEO of We Are TactIQ, an SBA-certified 8(a) and HUBZone firm delivering workforce, logistics, and technology solutions to federal agencies. He has led business development and capture efforts that contributed to hundreds of millions in contract awards across HHS, NASA, DoD, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy, USDA, and the Department of Labor.

He is the founder of MERIT, a platform designed to structure how GovCon teams qualify opportunities, build teams, and make early pursuit decisions. MERIT aligns business development, capture, and recruiting into a single workflow so teams can evaluate opportunities and act with clearer direction before committing resources.

His perspective is grounded in direct experience running capture, building teams, and executing in competitive federal contracting environments.

Event Topic

Acquisition, Artificial Intelligence, Contractor Specific

Relevant Audiences

All Federal Government, All Government Contractors
Take the Chaos Out of Government Contracting: Smarter Pursuit Decisions with MERIT
Event Type
Virtual / Online
Event Subtype
Webinar / Webcast
When
Thu, May 07, 2026 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
Registration Cost
Complimentary
Website
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Organizer
MERIT
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