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A troubling small business trend is getting worse

In the last ten years, the number of small businesses doing business with the government has fallen by a third.

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Why there’s not a huge cause for optimism for the rest of the federal budget year

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Contract spending is set to grow across the board in 2024

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Contractors make plans for a messy start to the next fiscal year

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FILE - An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Nov. 2, 2020. The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a challenge to the consideration of race in college admission decisions, often known as affirmative action. The justices are taking up a pair of lawsuits alleging that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina discriminate against Asian American applicants. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

That Supreme Court affirmative action decision is already affecting federal contracting

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That rumbling you hear is the end of the fiscal year approaching

Time-wise, there’s not much left of the federal fiscal year. Less then three months now. Money-wise it’s a different story. Agencies will spend around…

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A discussion of the current GovCon landscape

Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower in this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the current GovCon landscape.

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A default isn’t a shutdown, but agencies could treat it that way

That smooshy sound you hear is everyone squirming in their seats as the national-debt default looms closer. The weird thing is, the government is fully appropriated for the rest of fiscal 2023, with four months of high spending yet to go.

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