Archive: small business
Extreme Disappointment
This press release just in: Heavy-hitting Democrats-- and one independent -- "express extreme disappointment at the Bush Administration's failure to help women-owned firms gain equal access to federal contracts under a law enacted seven years ago." Those signing the letter include Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Chairman John Kerry...
By Robert O'Harrow | February 5, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
Women, Opportunities and Anger
The Small Business Administration is in the midst of another struggle, this time with women entrepreneurs. As the LA Times reports, women business owners are peeved about the agency's efforts to implement a seven-year-old congressional mandate to give them a larger portion of federal work. According to the story,...
By Robert O'Harrow | January 4, 2008; 06:00 AM ET | Comments (3)
More Business For the Small Guys?
The Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship voted unanimously for legislation that lawmakers said would make it easier for small businesses to win federal contracts. In a press release, the committee majority said the Small Business Contracting Revitalization Act would expand opportunities for small businesses owned by minorities,...
By Robert O'Harrow | November 8, 2007; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (2)
Critic: SBA Report Cards Need To Improve
The Small Business Administration announcement about reforms last week didn't sit well with the very vocal American Small Business League. Readers of Government Inc. will recall that the SBA issued its first ever report card on how well agencies are doing in meeting mandates for awarding contracts to small...
By Robert O'Harrow | August 22, 2007; 05:50 AM ET | Comments (5)
Small Business Report Cards
Half of the 24 federal agencies examined by the Small Business Administration failed to meet small business contracting goals. That's according to a first-ever report card that will be announced by the agency later today. The Pentagon and General Services Administration were among a dozen agencies that failed to...
By Robert O'Harrow | August 17, 2007; 05:25 AM ET | Comments (5)
The Numbers On Small Business
The response to the posting here about small business contracting last week spurred me to take another crack at it, sooner than I had expected. I'm now sure this aspect of federal procurement is -- how shall I put it? -- ripe for more sensible attention. Among other things...
By Robert O'Harrow | August 8, 2007; 11:05 AM ET | Comments (2)
Small Business, Big Business.
It seems as though the role of small businesses in federal contracting ought to be making bigger news. After all, Congress has mandated that a quarter of all contracting dollars ought to be set aside for "small businesses." That's a lot of dough. As many of you know, there's...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 31, 2007; 06:18 AM ET | Comments (7)
