§ Begini Howard Residency

Not a course. A seat at the desk.

Every GovCon program is taught by someone who left the arena. This one runs inside it: six months on BHPE's live federal pipeline — real solicitations, real vendor calls, real pricing, submitted under the name of the people teaching you. The record behind the desk is public: 119 prime awards, $12.37M+ obligated, 19 agencies, 34 states and territories since May 2024 — USAspending.gov, as of the July 2026 export.

Up to 10 residents a month, total across both tiers · application only · cohorts start monthly

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Individual · $25,000 · 6 months

One tuition, two ways through

Both paths include the full curriculum — solicitation analysis, vendor outreach, pricing, quote assembly — a guaranteed seat in the live-bid practicum on BHPE's pipeline, a principal-reviewed capstone, and, on completion in good standing, eligibility to sign BHPE's Associate Agreement (20% of gross profit on covered awards — a separate, no-cost agreement with a separate company). You build; the desk submits — until your first award lands. Then submission itself, and execution, join your curriculum.

EARN-BACK

The 100-Quote Challenge: submit 100 qualifying quotes in 6 months and your tuition is rebated in full. All or nothing — 99 earns $0.

A qualifying quote is real work: responsive to the solicitation's requirements, valued at $20,000 or more, delivered to the desk at least 24 hours before the due date. One hundred of them is $2M+ of federal work quoted in six months.

No profit share on work during the term. Earn-Back tuition sits in reserve until the Challenge resolves. And there's an off-ramp: switch to Leverage at any time — a one-way, final move that ends the Challenge.

LEVERAGE

A dedicated virtual assistant (20 hrs/week) and premium AI research-and-drafting tooling for the full term, the pool open to you from day one — and the 20% Associate Agreement signed at enrollment, not at completion.

The goal: 100 submitted proposals during the term. A program goal, not a commitment or guarantee.

For people building this next to a job: the VA does the volume, you make the calls. One-way door: Earn-Back may switch into Leverage anytime — nobody switches back.

Apply — Earn-Back · Apply — Leverage

Prime · $50,000 · 6 months · businesses

Your company, prime contractor

For operating businesses adding government contracting as a line of business — a flooring company filling its off-season, or something unrelated entirely. BHPE is niche-agnostic and so is the playbook. You bid under your own CAGE and keep 100% of your own awards — no profit share, ever.

Infrastructure build-out — SAM.gov and CAGE stand-up, socioeconomic certification roadmap where applicable, quoting and estimating systems, job-cost and invoicing basics
Two seats in the full curriculum and practicum for your people
Two dedicated VAs (20 hrs/week each) and two premium AI tooling subscriptions for the term
Desk review of your quote packages before they go out under your name
The goal: 200 submitted proposals during the term — volume creates the record, the record compounds
Financing-ready — structured so working capital through assignment-of-claims financing is an option when awards land

Teaming with BHPE on specific opportunities happens deal-by-deal under separate written agreements — never assumed, never required. A Prime enrollment takes two of the month's 10 seats.

Apply — Prime

The Residency is education and supervised practice offered by BHR LLC — not employment or job placement. BHPE LLC is a separate company; commission roles are governed by a separate agreement with BHPE, are compensated only by commission on awarded contracts, and no income is guaranteed. The Earn-Back rebate is all-or-nothing: 100 qualifying quotes within the 6-month term earns a full tuition rebate; fewer earns none. Up to 10 seats per month across both tiers (a Prime enrollment uses two); application required. Every agreement is published in full.

§ The desk rules

The count is honest, and you can watch it

Every Earn-Back number that matters is written down before you pay, and the tracker that counts them is visible to you the whole term.

Your side: claim it, build it to count

A live pool of open federal and state solicitations, added to daily — always more work than residents. Claim one in the tracker and it's yours alone: one resident per solicitation, first claim wins. A quote counts when it's responsive to the solicitation's requirements, valued at $20,000 or more, and at the desk at least 24 hours before the due date — under that, the desk may still take it, but no clock, no protections.
Our side: submitted or returned, nothing in between

The desk does one of two things with an on-time package: submits it under BHPE's name — it counts — or returns it with written reasons, within 2 business days of receipt or before the deadline, whichever comes first. Neither happens? It counts. A return isn't a strike — revise and resubmit; the earlier you deliver, the more room for that loop. Every receipt, action, and count logs to a shared tracker you can see — the official record, no end-of-term arguments.

What this is — and isn't

Six months of education and supervised practice on live federal and state solicitations, run by the people who price and perform BHPE's own contracts. Real vendor calls, real pricing, real deadlines — under supervision, with nothing going out to any agency without principal sign-off. Until your first award lands, the BHPE team handles submission itself; after it, submitting and executing become part of what you learn.

It is not a job, a salary, a franchise, or an investment. No income, award, or business result is guaranteed — anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't speak for us.

And the part most programs won't say out loud: the Associate Agreement itself is free. Applicants with equivalent experience can qualify for it through BHPE's application process without ever enrolling. Tuition buys the education, the practicum, and the leverage — nothing else.

Every agreement is published on this site, word for word, before you apply — the enrollment terms, the Prime terms, the Associate Agreement, all of it. Read first, then decide.

How to apply

The application takes five minutes: who you are, which track, and where you're starting from. Replies within a week; cohorts start monthly, capped at 10 across both tiers.

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The record you'd learn inside

119 prime awards across 19 federal agencies — every line of it public, none of it theory.

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