Keynote speaker, author, GovCon coach and…
Eric Coffie went from a construction company weeks away from collapse to winning multi-million dollar federal contracts, then gave the entire playbook away for free. Put him in front of your audience and they leave knowing exactly what to do Monday morning.
On the GovCon Giants podcast
Long-form conversations with the officials who set how Washington buys, and the founders who built companies selling to it. One idea from each.
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In the room
Advisory boards
Three GovCon Giants advisory boards bring in operators from MITRE, the Center for Internet Security, Idaho National Laboratory, U.S. Central Command and NASA Kennedy Space Center.
Student results
The four figures below are on the public record at USASpending.gov.
$195K+Liseth VelezLJVArmy, Army Corps of Engineers and VA construction
$21M IDIQChris FaceyTransportation and logisticsAwarded a spot on an ASPR transportation IDIQ
Daycare to VA + FAAStephannie AddoACJ Luxury MaintenanceFederal janitorial contracts
6 DLA awardsMike CantaveAviation partsDefense Logistics Agency, 2020
$60K FEMAAlex OmekeAccounting servicesFirst federal contract
No experienceMiguel SanchezGround GruntsWon federal work starting from zero
Laundromat bidsJames LeeActive-duty soldierWon government laundry work
Marine veteranDemetrius WalkerCEO, Fhito LogisticsDoubled down on a niche
$840K+Tony Reaves IIThe Toota Group LLCDLA and DHS awardsResults from public award records (USASpending.gov) and GovCon Giants award records. Photos from each student's GovCon Giants episode or event.
I wouldn't have won that contract without going to your conference. … Just sitting down, listening, and having those conversations at your event changed everything.
The success I've had with my contracts is because I learned from you and GovConGiants.
…who keep hearing "go get government contracts" and have never been told how.
Small business owners who need the first three moves, not a motivational speech.
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OSDBU industry days, APEX Accelerator programs, matchmaking events. Eric speaks the industry side fluently, and fills the room.
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Supplier diversity programs building a real subcontractor bench. Eric coaches suppliers on being findable, qualified, and easy to team with.
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Three talks, each already tested in front of a real room. Every session ends with the next moves your audience can make on Monday.
How the government actually buys, where small businesses fit, and the myths that keep good companies from ever bidding. Built for owners who keep hearing "go get government contracts" and have never been shown how.
What changes after the first contract: teaming, funding, set-aside programs, and the habits that separate firms that stall from firms that grow.
Stop chasing every notice. How to build a pipeline from the public award record, find the buyer before the solicitation, and use AI without handing it your judgment. From the founder of Mindy.
In 2007 the market crashed and took his construction company with it. Weeks from going under. Bad credit, no connections, no money. What saved him was a friend who understood how the federal government actually buys, and was willing to explain it.
What he found made him angry. The information wasn't hard. It was hoarded. Friends of his lost businesses the government would happily have paid them to keep running, if anyone had told them how to ask.
"When I won a $4 million contract, I quit traveling and started sharing everything I learned."
He founded Evankoff Construction in 2007: steel erection, building airplane hangars for federal agencies. In 2017 he pointed a camera at himself and started giving away 99% of what he knew for free. That became the GovCon Giants brand. The nonprofit behind it, GovCon Giants Inc, was incorporated later and is a 501(c)(3); today GovCon Giants is a podcast, a training platform, and an AI market intelligence tool called Mindy. The stated goal: help 200 companies reach $5 million each: a billion dollars of impact.
Book EricThe podcast
895+ episodes since May 2019. Every episode is free at govcongiants.com/podcast.
Media & speaking
Recent rooms Eric has spoken in, and the shows and outlets that have featured him.
Books by Eric
72 Websites for Massive Scaling in the Federal Marketplace
The 72 places where federal opportunity data actually lives: forecasts, expiring contracts, subcontracting flows and agency portals, with what to do on each one.
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A Complete Guide to Launching Your Government Contracting Business
Clears away the myths about federal contracts and lays out a framework for landing a first government client with free resources. Narrated by Eric, with his own story, mistakes and all.
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Keynotes, workshops, panels, firesides, and live GovCon Giants podcast recordings. Tell us the date, the audience, and what you want them walking away able to do. You'll get a reply within two business days.
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