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Small business recruited to help affordability efforts

The top procurement officer of a Top 100 DoD contractor gives a thumbs up to the newly announced Pentagon acquisition reforms. WFED's Scott Carr reports.

Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , contracting , Congress , acquisition , acquisition reform , management , Scott Carr

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DLA: working with small businesses

Learn more about DLA's latest conference

Tags: Federal Drive , contracting , DLA , Peg Meehan

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DoD contracting is on a transparency tightrope

Buyers in the Defense Department who bundle small contracts into larger ones will have to post their actions on the Web. Bundling is the subject of a new interim rule. Roger Waldron, Counsel at the law firm Mayer Brown, explains.

Tags: Federal Drive , contracting , contract bundling , Roger Waldron , Mayer Brown LLP , Federal Acquisition Regulation , Suzanne Kubota , transparency , FAR

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Task force seeks comments on small business contracting

The administration is looking for ways to improve contracting with small businesses and wants the public's input.

Tags: contracting , SBA , OMB , Commerce , White House , Interagency Task Force , Meg Beasley

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Small businesses to play a big role at USAID

Small businesses will play an important role in the new procurement reform strategy at USAID. We get details from the Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Mauricio Vera

Tags: Federal Drive , USAID , procurement , Mauricio Vera , management , acquisition

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Feds to help small businesses affected by oil spill

OMB says FEMA will lead a working group to develop a plan to coordinate agency response for small businesses and other social services. FEMA will set up the group in the next 10 days.

Tags: management , OMB , FEMA , oil spill ,

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Bill establishes tax payment plan for small businesses

A Frederick County lawmaker's bill to offer a payment plan for small-business property taxes has passed both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly.

Tags: Donald Elliott , Frederick County , Carroll County , David Brinkley , Maryland General Assembly , taxes

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Long Term Consequences and Government Policy

Understanding the long term consequences for government policy is not a regular part of the federal diet, but it should be.

Tags: Lurita Doan , GSA , telework , OMB , OPM , Service Disabled veterans , economic stimulus , federal contracting , VA

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ACT/IAC chat starts the year off right

This week, Amtower talks with ACT/IAC Executive Director Ken Allen.
Jan. 18, 2010

Tags: IAC , ACT , government contracting , ELC , MOC , GSA , IT community , Ken Allen , AFFIRM , Amtower Off Center , Mark Amtower

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Resources for Small Businesses

December 8th and 29th, 2009 at 11:30 AM

On this week's episode of "Gateway to Government Sales," Scott Orbach reviews the SBA Small Business Financing Forum and discusses the resources available to small business owners at the Maryland Capitol Region SBDC. Scott also shares new State Department and HUD contracting opportunities available to GSA Schedule holders in FY 2010.

Tags: contracting , Gateway to Government Sales , GSA , HUD

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