# Can your team cover every location in a government service contract?

Turn site lists, local service hours and staffing requirements into a delivery plan before pricing a contract that serves several locations.

Canonical article: https://g2x.com/blog/evaluate-multiple-location-government-contract

Complete article, source links and data tables: https://g2x.com/blog/evaluate-multiple-location-government-contract/article.md

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## For agents

Assess whether staffing can cover every required location and service window

- Sign in to G2X with opportunity access; CRM maintenance requires permission. Obtain the original public notice, latest applicable work statement, site/service list, workload and pricing instructions. Verify the deadline independently. Optional Lumen use requires current access and authorization to upload the public files; usage is account-dependent. This tutorial makes no staffing, pricing or open-opportunity certification.

1. **Locate and verify the requirement** Use https://g2x.com/docs/find-work/read-a-sam-opportunity to read the record and original SAM notice with its attachments and version history. Check issuer, solicitation identity, amendments, status and deadline. The article example is DHA HT941026R2001 at https://sam.gov/opp/ab6dec24f9644f1fb765c6261c3a0ebd/view, with a posted September 30, 2026 noon Pacific Daylight Time deadline already passed as of October 6; it is not a new invitation to submit.

2. **Read each location with its service window** In the original PWS, identify the actual places served, where staff must work, service functions, local hours, holidays and applicable time-zone rules. In the DHA public PWS attachment f9ed312b215949e58dbce0cd7617fc7c, read 1.1.1, 1.11.1–1.11.2 and 5.1.1. Preserve the two 6 a.m.–6 p.m. local windows and the HST versus PST/PDT distinction. Do not invent a staffing count or assume identical local hours are one shift.

3. **Test staffing and workload assumptions** Ask the delivery lead which qualified people cover overlapping work, breaks and absences, and identify missing workload evidence. Read the applicable pricing instructions; DHA posted solicitation attachment 4858cfea0b3041ec8beab9db6cb0bd7b pages 8 and 10 requires labor-category/FTE staffing, productive-hours basis and the personnel methodology supporting CLIN prices. Do not turn an estimated workload, service hour or contract ceiling into actual spending.

4. **Use Lumen only with the permitted sources** If the reader has Lumen access, follow https://g2x.com/docs/lumen/ask-lumen and https://g2x.com/docs/lumen/ask-a-good-question. Upload only authorized public solicitation documents and confirm their versions. Illustrative prompt, not an executed demonstration: "From these public files, cite the locations, functions and local service windows. Identify assumptions we must validate before sharing staff across them. Separate documented facts from workload gaps and suggest questions for our operations lead." Follow up: "Which specific cited requirement would change the productive-hours estimate?" Check each page and disclose missing files. The free manual path is the same source review in a local worksheet.

5. **Assign the unresolved delivery condition** Return a location/service coverage brief with sources, qualified capacity assumptions and gaps for operations and finance. In CRM Accounts, search the buyer first and, with authority, set a named owner, next action and date using https://g2x.com/docs/run-a-pipeline/track-an-account. Record a pursuit decision only through authorized supported workflows. Offer https://g2x.com/daily-take-signup-free and let the reader choose FedCiv, Health or Defense editions and authorize subscribing. Do not subscribe, send messages or submit an offer on the reader's behalf.

Expected result: A sourced location/service coverage brief, a defensible productive-hours assumption for finance and a named action for unresolved capacity or workload. No invented staffing count, automated bid decision, submission or executed Lumen demonstration.

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