{"id":151,"date":"2026-09-18T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_event=government-contracting-basics"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:23:52","slug":"government-contracting-basics","status":"publish","type":"sjc_event","link":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_event=government-contracting-basics","title":{"rendered":"Government Contracting Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Oct 15, 2026 12pm to 1pm<\/p>\n<p>Explore opportunities to sell your products or services to federal, state, and local government agencies through public sector contracting. Learn about certifications (such as small business, minority-owned, and veteran-owned designations), how to register your business, where to find contract opportunities, and the basics of bidding and compliance requirements.<\/p>\n<p>This program is offered in partnership with Missouri APEX Accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>*This project is supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SSBCI-21031-0104 awarded to the State of Missouri by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 15, 2026 12pm to 1pmExplore opportunities to sell your products or services to federal, state, and local government agencies through public sector contracting. Learn about certifications (such as small&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":423,"template":"","sjc_event_cat":[26],"class_list":["post-151","sjc_event","type-sjc_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sjc_event_cat-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_event\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sjc_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sjc_event_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsjc_event_cat&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}