Before you can gain visibility, win contracts, and get paid by government agencies or prime contractors, you need to be properly set up as a vendor. Yet vendor registration and supplier onboarding are often misunderstood, over-applied, or treated as a box-checking exercise rather than a strategic business decision.

This course explains the core principles of vendor activation and supplier onboarding—why registration exists, when it’s required, when it isn’t, and how to determine what applies to your specific contracting path. Rather than focusing on a single system or form, you’ll learn how vendor and supplier registrations function across federal, state, and local environments, as well as within prime contractor vendor databases. You’ll also see how these registrations support not only eligibility but also payment, vendor visibility and marketing, sourcing, and small-business utilization efforts.

In this course, you will learn:

• Why vendor registration and supplier onboarding exist in the first place
• When registration is required—and when it may not be necessary
• How to determine which registrations apply to your business and target buyers
• The benefits of registration
• Why maintaining and updating registrations is critical to remaining active and visible
• How federal, state, and local vendor registration processes differ
• Where to find trusted training, resources, and support for registration and onboarding
• Why small business certifications and status matter in vendor and supplier systems

This course does not provide step-by-step instructions for completing specific registration systems. Instead, it equips you with the knowledge to make informed decisions, avoid unnecessary effort, and take the right next step—whether that means formal registration, subcontractor onboarding, certification alignment, or targeted guidance through additional training or local support resources.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand how vendor activation, visibility, and engagement work together to position your business for opportunity, recognition, and payment—without wasting time on registrations that don’t fit your strategy.

This webinar is presented by Govology and has a registration fee. To attend the webinar free of charge, there is an Alaska APEX discount coded offered to Alaska-registered APEX Accelerators clients only.

For more information about the webinar or to request the code, contact Lynda Gregory, at 907-786-7258 or email her at lmgregory@alaska.edu.