The National Women’s Business Council has collected a treasury of links to information about federal procurement at its website, www.womenbiz.gov.

Some of the information is specifically tailored for women entrepreneurs, but most of it is useful for any small-business person seeking answers about procurement. The site is a one-stop for links to a large number of federal websites, providing information from how-to guides to calendars of procurement-related workshops and conferences run by each agency.

The site targets five stages that businesses go through as they seek federal contracts: meeting the basics; finding your market; getting started; finding business opportunities and key contacts.

For beginners, it links to the SBA’s guide, “Selling to the Federal Government” (http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/selling.html). For the more seasoned contractor, there are links to agencies’ procurement forecasts and to names and addresses of SBA procurement center representatives and agency Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.