(SDVOSB News Services) -- Washington, DC, December 7, 2012 The Small Business Administration (SBA) today reported on the progress made during 2012 on the President’s Interagency Task Force on Veterans Business Development. The Task Force, chaired by SBA Deputy Administrator Marie Johns, included … [Read more...]
Opportunity to Watch: Professional, Technical, Administrative and Program Support Services (PTAPSS)
A day in the world of federal contracting isn’t complete without a new acronym named contracting opportunity. Enter PTAPSS! What is PTAPSS? In short this is a contract used by the Department of State to fill a wide variety of staff augmentation needs at several locations around the U.S. and some … [Read more...]
SBA Launches ‘Operation Boots to Business’
Operation Boots to Business: From Service to Startup to Help Them Start Businesses and Create Jobs WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has joined with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to launch a training program for transitioning … [Read more...]
Women-Owned Firms Win Top Honors for Excellence in Small Business Contracting
WASHINGTON – Two women-owned small business contractors, one a general construction firm from New Mexico and the other a project management services company from Tennessee, have been named the National Prime Contractor of the Year and National Subcontractor of the Year by the U.S. Small Business … [Read more...]
Veterans Win Significant Procurement Battle
Last year, the United States Association of Veterans in Business ("USAVETBIZ") urged Congress for agovernment-wide preference in contracting and set-aside programs that extended the existing preference for service-disabled veteran owned small businesses ("SDVOSB") to all veteran-owned small … [Read more...]
Avoiding the SBA 8A Graduation Trauma: Preparing Your Brand for Higher Valuation
This article by Gal Borenstein was written with 8(a) firms who are approaching the end of their 8(a) life in mind, but it is useful for any company seeking to increase it's value to a potential acquirer: Avoiding the SBA 8A Graduation Trauma: Preparing Your Brand for Higher Valuation Remember … [Read more...]
South Carolina 8(a) IPW Named National Minority Small Business Of the Year
GovCon congratulates Cyrus Sinor, P.E. and Lawrence Kai-Yun Yeh, P.E., co-CEOs of International Public Works based in South Carolina, on being named National Minority Small Business Of the Year. The announcement came earlier today during the 27th Anniversary of the National Minority Enterprise … [Read more...]