government contracts for small businesses
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The federal government may be a bureaucracy and as a businessperson you may need to fill out the forms perfectly in order to get a contract, but the g...
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The U.S. Small Business Administration announced on June 15 that the federal government was making a $3 billion upward revision to the total number of...
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Two additional government agencies will investigate TesTech Inc. in the wake of a Dayton Daily News examination that showed a wealthy couple controlled the company while it used a program for disadvantaged businesses to win millions of dollars in government contracts.
The U.S. Small Business Administration and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services (ODAS) say they will investigate TesTech's compliance with similar minority set-aside programs they oversee. The Washington Twp. civil engineering company also is under investigation by the FBI and inspectors general for the state of Ohio and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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In the wake of last year's terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush increased funding for homeland security--to the tune of $37.7 billion for 2003....
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA - One of the region's newest construction firms is taking lessons from one of its more longstanding firms in a special arrangement having Uncle Sam's support.
Hubzone Corp. - a 5-year-old contracting firm in Rancho Cucamonga with eight employees - and C.W. Driver - a 92-year-old construction enterprise in Ontario with some 250 people on its payroll - are cooperating through a Small Business Administration program designed to help eligible small businesses bid for government contracts.
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MILWAUKEE -- More than 600 small business owners are congregating in Milwaukee today for the Midwest Regional Business Matchmaking event. The Business...
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Governor's Mandate of 25% Participation by Small Businesses in State Contracting Leads to Los Angeles Contracting Conference
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In order for the Federal Government to better meet or exceed the goal of 23 per cent of prime contracts for small businesses, vicepresident Biden and I have tasked small business administrator [Karen Mills] and commerce secretary [Gary Locke] with leading a federal government-wide initiative to increase outreach," [Barack Obama] continued. "Over the course of the next 90 days agency officials will take an important step forward by holding or participating in more than two-hundred events focused on sharing information on government contracting opportunities.
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Lee and Gill intends to lobby city, state and federal officials to streamline the process for small businesses to get government backed loans and contracts.
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He said it's not too late for a novice small business to get certified: "Once you get registered you can start bidding. We help people with bids, and after a while they learn how to do it and they don't need us," [Henry Savelli] said. "You don't need me forever; you just need me to get started.
[...] many new businesses flooding to the public contracts field means more competition for government contract dollars - but small businesses should forge ahead into the marketplace, and not get discouraged, said former New Jersey contracting official Henry Savelli, now a consultant who helped lead the seminan Savelli is a principal of a new company, The Contract Connection, formed by three experienced contract consultants who have seen a surge in demand for their services over the past yean Th...