About
The Father-and-Son Team Behind Federal Contractor University
Federal Contractor University is taught by Douglas Reitmeyer and his son Sean Reitmeyer — two contractors who built their careers inside the federal market, not marketers who read about it. Between them: over a billion dollars in federal contracts, average margins above 33%, and 45+ companies trained.
Douglas Reitmeyer
The father — a career inside the federal market
Doug's story starts a generation earlier. His father worked 42 years at IBM, opening laboratories around the world — which meant Doug grew up across six different high schools, part of it in Holland, riding a motorcycle through a foreign country. "I'm a computer guy," he says. "I'll figure that control stuff out." He did — and then he applied the same machine mindset to federal contracting.
He built his bidding operation like an assembly line: a bid administrator preparing daily bid-tracker reports, plans and specifications in manila folders, every amendment acknowledged and signed before the deadline, a thousand-dollar-a-month FedEx bill. That system — BidTrakker — became the backbone of hundreds of contracts, from traffic-light maintenance to Air Force facilities, from routine set-asides to NSA buildings and nuclear missile silos.
A multimillion-dollar Florida contractor once sent a headhunter to Austin to hire him away. Doug showed the man how the system worked — and the headhunter paid $10,000 just to use BidTrakker for a month. In a courtroom once, a judge looked at Sean and asked who Doug was — was he an attorney? "No," Sean said, "that's my dad. He's been doing government contracts for four years." The judge just shook his head.
Students know Doug as the instructor who will keep teaching until eight o'clock at night if anyone in the room is still interested.
Sean Reitmeyer
The son — operator, program builder, and the voice of "say it this way"
Sean grew up inside the business. He started as a superintendent, answering to a project manager who sat between him and his dad — and who taught him things, he says, he would never have learned from his father, because his dad is a softy to his son. He bid jobs of his own while learning the trade, and he still debates his father about the right way to acknowledge a contract change.
Sean is the one who built the training program itself. He figured out how to sell the workshop — and coached his dad through it: "You've got to say it this way, you've got to say these words, and magic will happen." He keeps the sessions moving, balances his father's depth with structure, and turned years of seminar material into the curriculum on this site.
"We're very tight," he says. "We argue and stuff like that, like any other family does."
The track record
- Over $1 billion in federal contracts performed
- Average profit margins above 33% across that work — in an industry where single digits are normal
- Hundreds of federal contracts; about a hundred under their own company name
- 27 contracts with a single contracting officer — relationships measured in decades
- Work everywhere from routine set-asides to NSA facilities and nuclear missile silos
- 45+ companies trained; two attendees who had never bid won their first bids ever; one graduate company reached the Inc. 500
Why they teach
After decades of performing federal work, Doug and Sean made an agreement: stop competing with the contractors they train. That decision is why this workshop exists — it contains what working contractors normally keep to themselves. The method is built on concepts developed across a billion dollars of work, taught as one sequence: registrations, opportunities, pricing, and submission — ending in a bid that gets read.
Everything is written for screens, so you work through the modules on any device, at your own pace. Lifetime access means every future update is included.
The promise
The federal market is the most rules-bound, accessible market in America. The door for small business isn't just open — the government sets an annual 23% small-business award goal and sets aside many contracts exclusively for small businesses. The workshop's job is to walk you through that door in the right order, with checklists, so your first bid is a professional one.