Helping Businesses Win government contracts

Federal Business Development Strategy for Government Contractors

C2 provides fractional BD leadership, capture strategy, and agency engagement so your team can focus on delivery while we drive growth.

Collaborative Compositions offers three tiers of service packages customized to your specific needs and requirements.

Advisory

We assess your federal market position and show you exactly what to fix.

Consultative

We develop your pipeline, capture plans, and competitive positioning so you pursue the right opportunities.

Optimize

Collaborative

We embed with your team and drive federal business development day to day.

Helping businesses win, grow, and thrive in government contracting.

C2 operates as your fractional federal business development leader. We embed with your team to build a pipeline strategy, identify and qualify opportunities, position against competitors, and drive capture decisions that lead to wins.
Whether you're breaking into the federal market or scaling an existing government practice, we bring the BD infrastructure, agency relationships, and strategic discipline that most small and midsize contractors can't build internally.
Our engagements are structured around your growth stage and budget. We provide the same caliber of BD leadership that large primes rely on, sized for companies that need results without the overhead of a full BD shop.

Build and manage a qualified federal opportunity pipeline

Position your company to win before the RFP drops

Develop strategic teaming partnerships with primes and subs

Expand into new agencies with targeted engagement strategies

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Industries We Support

We work with small and midsize contractors across defense and civilian agencies in these sectors.

  • Prime Contractors
  • Professional Services
  • Engineering
  • R&D
  • IT & Cybersecurity
  • Electronics & Autonomy
  • Software & Systems Developers
  • Manufacturing & Component Suppliers
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Why Companies Choose C2

Most small and midsize government contractors don't have a dedicated BD function. We change that.

✅ Pipelines, not guesswork: We replace reactive opportunity chasing with a structured pipeline built around qualified, winnable pursuits.

✅ Strategy before the RFP: We position your company with the right agencies, partners, and stakeholders well before solicitations hit the street.

✅ Results Across the Federal Market: Our clients have won contracts across DoD, civilian agencies, and the intelligence community by operating with a plan rather than chasing volume.

Focus on growth while we handle the details.

Where We Drive Results

  • Federal pipeline strategy and opportunity qualification
  • Capture planning and competitive positioning
  • Agency engagement and stakeholder identification
  • Teaming, joint ventures, and partner strategy
  • Non-traditional and innovative contracting pathways

FROM OUR CLIENTS

Working with Chelsea and Collaborative Compositions (C2) was fantastic. Her federal expertise helped us gain exposure, navigate contracting processes, build strong Federal BD operations, and close an operational DoD contract.

Chelsea is a terrific resource for small businesses navigating the federal sector.

I highly recommend Chelsea and C2 to anyone seeking top-tier federal business development expertise.

Michael
PeakMetrics

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Chelsea Roberts is amazing, she is opening doors at the DoD for my small business and proposition creative contract vehicles to develop new business for us. We’ve spent years trying to break into DoD work, I wish we had known her earlier.

I can highly recommend Chelsea.

Anders Gronstedt

I have only known Chelsea for about a year, but during that time she has proven to be an astute observer of our Federal government contracting market.

Chelsea is an integral part of a GovCon group I lead and she is an active contributor and occasional presenter. The people in this group are a core part of Government Marketing University (www.GMatrkU.com) and they are smart.

I have had several one-on-ones with Chelsea as we target the same audience (smaller government contractors), but for different reasons. She is extremely knowledgeable on the contracting/procurement process and her analysis of budgets is quite insightful and strong on the nuances.

I am proud to have Chelsea in my GovCon inner circle of experts and to count her as a personal friend.

Mark Amtower

 

 

During the first two months of engagement with Sync, Chelsea has opened doors to new opportunities, new avenues of funding, and introduced us to valuable new stakeholders.  When Sync was submitting an STTR proposal for OSD, Chelsea delivered results on a short timeline that exceeded expectations.

Initially, we asked her to pursue a letter of support to bolster our submission. She knew just who could lend the most credibility to our submission and reached out to start a dialogue. She facilitated discussions between our firm and the stakeholder and garnered support from a high-ranking leader who requested to personally provide an endorsement for the letter of support.

Chelsea and her firm Collaborative Compositions have the resources you need to succeed in the federal market.

 Robert Kabera

 

 

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