Federal strategic environment

Competitive Capture Roundtable

A Closed-Door Working Session for Federal Sales Leaders

Competitive takeouts are a larger and more achievable opportunity than most realize. The advantage begins with knowing where the openings are.

Reserve your spot

Open to Govly customers who register by March 31.

For confirmed participants, Govly will prepare a confidential competitive brief tailored to your territory in advance of the session.

SESSION PARAMETERS

FORMAT

This is a live, 90-minute virtual roundtable and working session focused on competitive displacement strategy for 2026.

Each participating organization will receive tailored competitive signal analysis prepared specifically for their portfolio prior to the session.

Closed-door. Not recorded. Limited to a hand-selected small group of Govly Customers.

DELIVERABLES

What You'll Walk Away With

01

A confidential competitive vulnerability brief prepared for your portfolio

02

A competitive target worklist you can apply immediately

03

Optional follow-up working session to operationalize your targets

*Assets are prepared exclusively for confirmed participants.

SESSION OUTLINE

Agenda

01

The 2026 Federal Competitive Landscape

15 minutes
  • Where competitive displacement is accelerating
  • Signal patterns that precede takeout wins
  • Emerging vulnerabilities across agencies and contract vehicles
  • What's materially changing heading into 2026
Brian Strosser

Featured insights from:

Brian Strosser, Board Advisor and Former President of ClearShark

02

Case Spotlight: Competitive Takeout in Action

10 minutes

Live discussion on:

  • How they identified a vulnerable incumbent
  • Which signals mattered most
  • How the strategy translated into a $1.6M competitive win

Featured insights from: 🔒 UNDER WRAPS

Speaker identity protected — to be announced

03

Competitive Signal Working Session

40 minutes

For confirmed participants:

  • Review of anonymized signal stacking patterns
  • Walkthrough of your prepared competitive vulnerability brief
  • Identification of 2–3 displacement targets aligned to your priorities
  • Structured mapping of next-step capture actions

Competitive boundaries are respected.

No organization-specific account intelligence is shared across participants.

04

The Buyer's Perspective

15 minutes

A candid conversation with Sonny Hashmi, former CIO of the U.S. General Services Administration, on what actually happens on the government side when a vendor tries to unseat an incumbent.

  • What makes a buyer take a competitive pitch seriously
  • The signals and behaviors that build or destroy credibility during a transition
  • What vendors almost always get wrong when pushing for displacement
  • What a winning challenger looks like from the other side of the table
Sonny Hashmi

Featured insights from:

Sonny Hashmi, Former CIO, U.S. General Services Administration

05

Post-Session Application

Optional

Participating organizations may opt into a follow-up working session to apply the framework directly to live pipeline and signal builds inside Govly.

ACCESS CONTROL

Participation Details

Active Govly customers only
Limited to 12 organizations
Closed-door. Not recorded.
Bespoke competitive briefs prepared in advance
Registration closes March 31 to allow for portfolio preparation.
Off the record
STRATEGIC CONTEXT

2026 Will Be a Displacement Year

Most teams only see the loss at award.

Govly sits across:

  • Tens of thousands of active federal opportunities
  • Millions of award and contact records
  • Competitive signal movement across agencies and contract vehicles

That vantage point gives us pattern recognition few others can match.

In this closed-door working session, we will apply that signal framework directly to participating teams and prepare a confidential competitive vulnerability brief in advance.

If competitive displacement is a priority for 2026, this is where you get ahead of it.

Reserve Your Seat

Participation is limited and preparation begins prior to the session.

Organizations must be active Govly customers on April 1 2026 to participate.

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