{"id":372015,"date":"2022-07-08T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=372015"},"modified":"2022-07-08T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:06:44","slug":"community-briefs-july-8-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-july-8-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS \u2013 July 8, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Youth Congress session today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is to inform the public that the 18th CNMI Youth Congress will convene its First Day, 2nd Special Session today, July 8, 2022, at 11am in the House of Representatives chamber on Capital Hill. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free webinars on federal contracting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guam Procurement Technical Assistance Center is offering free webinars this July. Webinars run from 10am to 11:30am and will be conducted via Zoom. Links to the live webinar and the webinar evaluation will be emailed to all registered attendees 15 minutes before the start of the webinar.<br \/>\n\u2022 July 7 \u2013 How to Register in SAM \u2013 Vendors need an active SAM registration to participate in Federal contracting. The SAM registration process recently changed. The Guam PTAC will take you through the new registration process as well as the new annual renewal process.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 July 14 \u2013 Federal Contract Opportunities \u2013 SAM.gov is the portal for Federal Contract Opportunities. The Guam PTAC will show you how to use the website to ensure you do not miss any opportunities. Opportunity types, search filters, and search strategies will be discussed.<br \/>\n\u2022 July 21 \u2013 How to Get HUBZone Certified \u2013 All of Guam and the CNMI are HUBZones. The Guam PTAC will take you through the certification process, the required supporting documents, and follow-up requirements from SBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 July 28 \u2013 How to Get WOSB Certified \u2013 WOSB is an official SBA certification program. We will discuss the online certification process as well as supporting document requirements.<br \/>\nTo register, visit: https:\/\/www.guamptac.com\/news-and-events.php. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Congress session today This is to inform the public that the 18th CNMI Youth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":372013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3946],"class_list":["post-372015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-youth-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}