If you're serious about scaling your business and growing your revenue through federal contracting, then you CANNOT overlook subcontracting. In fact, landing a subcontracting opportunity just might be the way you break into this sector. So if you're: Thinking about...
As a government contractor (or prospective one), you’ve probably seen the term “economically disadvantaged” pop-up here and there. Mainly, you’re going to see it when it pertains to 8(a) Business Development Program and the Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business...
HUBZone program changes approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) earlier this year take affect tomorrow, August 24. These changes expand the SBA's HUBZone application process as well as HUBZone joint ventures. By revising 13 C.F.R. § 126.306, the SBA...
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently presented a report to Congress focusing on the Agency’s outreach to aspiring and established women veteran entrepreneurs. The report to Congress included U.S. Census data, reflecting the uptick of women veteran entrepreneurship, along with some...
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on Wednesday, March 2 announced the federal government hit its goal of awarding at least 5 percent of all contracts to women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) during FY15. Twenty-three percent of all federal contracting dollars...
For the first time in 20 years of trying, federal agencies met their mandatory goal of steering small business contracts to women-owned firms, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced on Wednesday, March 2. “What we were able to achieve was because of...
Beginning February 1, 2016, the federal definition of what qualifies as a small business has changed. These U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)-approved changes revise the number of employees a business can have and still be "small" and also how much a for-profit...
Nearly three decades after the passage of The Women’s Business Ownership Act (H.R. 5050, there are 10 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., according to Carla A. Harris, chair of the National Women’s Business Council. “H.R. 5050 was a big...
The U.S. Department of Commerce on December 15, 2015 released the final results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), which found that business ownership in our nation is mirroring our increasingly diverse population. Minority-owned firms in...
