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Top Trends Impacting Government Contracts: Key Insights from the 2025 GAUGE Report

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Three-quarters of government contracting firms rely on personal relationships for opportunities, creating pipeline data based on conversations that never get updated.

Host Lucas Hunsaker interviews Kim Koster, VP at Uninet, to unpack the key findings from the 2025 Gage Report, an annual benchmarking study for government contractors. They discuss persistent challenges like resource planning, forecasting inaccuracies, and compliance pressures, while exploring how AI and centralized PMO structures can improve project performance and win rates.

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A practical GovCon briefing on forecasting, PMO rigor, and compliance as strategy.

This episode treats GovCon execution as a planning problem, not a slogan. Kim Koster walks through the 2025 Gage Report with a focus on tightening pipeline stages, tying CRM data to execution data, and using AI and predictive scoring as an overlay.

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