GSA Schedules Training Webinar for Small Businesses
The GSA Office of Small Business Utilization conducts monthly training on the process of obtaining a GSA schedules contract.
They offer a free monthly webinar designed to support small businesses interested in obtaining a GSA Multiple Award Schedules contract. To attend you will simply need to register.
If you have questions regarding these webinars or would like [...]
Small Business Industry Day at the U.S. Capitol 2010
The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is hosting an event for small business owners at the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) designed to provide information about doing business with the AOC and the CVC.
The CVC is looking for products that are made in the U.S. and manufactured with U.S.-made materials such as educational toys, jewelry, and [...]
DHS OSDBU offers monthly small business vendor outreach sessions
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization offers monthly small business Vendor Outreach Sessions (VOS). These one-on-one sessions enable the small business specialist to meet with small, 8(a), HUBZone small, small disadvantaged, women-owned small, veteran-owned small and service disabled veteran owned small businesses to discuss their capabilities statement, learn [...]
DOJ Drops Effort to Go After ASBL
The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its appeal of a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarding legal fees to the American Small Business League.
The ASBL requested the specific names of the firms that were coded as small businesses for FY 2005 and 2006 and the specific dollar [...]
Small Business Fair Competition Act H.R. 3558
Sounds good, right? But this bill would actually allow businesses that have outgrown their small business status (because of government contracts) to continue competing for those contracts effectively blocking new small business contenders from winning those contracts.
When I first read about this new bill, H.R. 3558 – Small Business Fair Competition Act, it seemed reasonable [...]
The NASBC Goes to Bat for Small GovCons
Recently the SBA issued their annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard that let’s us know how federal agencies performed as measured against their small business contracting goals. They focused attention on the impressive growth in the actual dollars spent with small businesses over the prior year, but they’ve received some blowback from several organizations and critics [...]
SBA Releases Small Business Procurement Scorecard
The Small Business Administration released their third annual small business procurement scorecard reporting small businesses won a record $93.3 billion in federal prime contracts in Fiscal 2008 (Oct. 1, 2007-Sept. 30, 2008). While that number was almost $10 billion more than in 2007, it fell short of the federal government’s goal of awarding over 23% [...]
