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...
Representative Mike Coffman, who serves the sixth district of Colorado, and five co-sponsors introduced HR 3945 Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2015, on November 5, 2015. Coffman’s legislation uses a three-pronged approach to reform the current...
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is looking to fill four spots on its Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development. These spots must be filled by a veteran service or military organization. The task force also includes senior-level...
What is System for Award Management (SAM) registration? The System for Award Management (SAM) is the Official U.S. Government system that consolidated the capabilities of CCR/FedReg, ORCA, and EPLS. In order for businesses to be eligible for government contracts they must first...
As we move closer and closer to the end of the fiscal year, procurement officers are about to spend truck loads of money to hit their spending quotas. Many procurement officers rush to spend the last of their budgets. This...
This report collects subcontract award data for a specific federal government agency when a Prime/Subcontractor: (a) holds one or more contracts over $550,000 (over $1,000,000 for construction of a public facility); and (b) is required to report subcontracts awarded to Small Business (SB), Small...
President Abraham Lincoln once said, “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” So does our government’s program to better equip our federal workers whether it is in manufacturing, construction or technology. This...
In 1999, Congress passed Public Law 106-50, which established the Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act. goal was to generate 3% of the total value of all prime contracts and subcontract awards to be set-aside for owned and controlled...
A story published yesterday in the Kansas City Star caught our attention. A 40 year old Marine service-disabled veteran who owns a commercial kitchen supply business in Michigan was unable to bid on two VA supply contracts due to restricted...
