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SBA tries for less disparity in disparity ratios
SBA awarded a contract to the KauffmanRAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy (RAND) to complete a revised study of the availability and utilization of WomenOwned Small Businesses in prime contracts. In the study, RAND computed disparity ratios in twentyeight different ways.
Tags: mngt , best practices , women owned small businesses , Joe Jordan
Small business contracting bill brings changes
Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee passes small business contracting bill focusing on four main areas. Agencies would have to justify bundled contracts and create new policy to oversee subcontracting. Vendors do not support all provisions of the bill.
Tags: contracting , Mary Landrieu , Olympia Snowe , Ben Cardin , Greg Willis , Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committ , House Small Business Committee , GSA , Larry Allen , Coalition for Government Procurement , Small business contracting , Small business goals , contract bundling , Subcontracting , Small business size standards , multiple award contracts
VA sets rules for set-aside program
Final regulation applies to all agencies for determining eligibility of veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Agencies spent almost $20 billion with these firms in 2008.
Tags: contracting , VA , GAO , Veteran-owned small business , Service-disabled veteran owned small business , Small business contracting
GAO sees more bid protests in 2009
The agency received more complaints last year than in any of the previous eight years. GAO also came to a final decision on more cases in 2009 than the year before. More agencies and vendors also are turning to alternative dispute resolution to solve their differences, GAO finds.
Tags: contracting , GAO , TSA , bid protest , alternative dispute resolution , A-76 , task order protest
Learning more about the evolution of Business.gov
This week, Amtower talks with Nancy Sternberg, program manager of the site, who talks about how it's evolved.
Nov. 30, 2009
Tags: Business.gov , small business , government contracting , small business planning , Nancy Sternberg
Small Business Administration
Tags: technology , Meeting Mission Goals , Small Business Administration , green IT , Paul Christy
Small Business Summits, Scams and Profitable Hype
After 15 years as a small business owner, and as the former Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration, I've been to the circus a few times and seen all the strings connected with small business initiatives and the federal government.
Tags: Lurita Doan , Barack Obama , White House , Jobs Summit , Small Business Administration , set aside goals , Goldman Sachs , Nydia Velazquez, , Warren Buffett , Karen Mills
More advantages for disadvantaged businesses
Tags: contract , Joe Jordan , 8(a) program , small and disadvantaged business
H1N1 protocols ease shutdown at the Small Business Administration
When the SBA shutdown its Herndon, Va. loan processing facility due to H1N1, employees were sent home and SBA followed up with a cleaning crew to sanitize the center. We learn what else was done.
Tags: H1N1 , Mike Stamler , mngt , COOP
Peg Gustafson, SBA's new IG, details plans for the future
Tags: mngt , Peg Gustafson , IG
