Small business contracting

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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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Sen. Ernst hopeful about fixes to small business contracting

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OFPP expands small business ‘rule of two’ to multiple award contracts

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Concerns over NASA’s SEWP VI small business strategy come to surface

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OFPP’s acquisition workforce modernization effort to kick into gear in 2024

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Busy federal fourth quarter to bleed into just as crazy first quarter of 2024

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DISA’s plan to solve the facility clearance conundrum for small businesses

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Commerce’s CATTS procurement exemplifies all that’s wrong with federal small business contracting

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2 new tools aim to reverse decade-long decline in small business industrial base

The Biden administration developed a supplier base dashboard and a procurement equity tool to help agencies identify potential new small businesses to…

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FILE - Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro speaks at the 80th Pearl Harbor Anniversary ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Honolulu. Del Toro announced Thursday, May 19, 2022, that a future destroyer will be named USS Telesforo Trinidad in honor of a Filipino sailor who rescued two crew members when their ship caught fire more than a century ago. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia,File)

Navy to break up some big contracts to increase small business participation

The Navy will also look to hold prime contractors accountable to meeting small business subcontracting goals.

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OMB looking for budgets that are data driven

Federal contracting expert Larry Allen says that’s fine in principle, but the whole idea rests on the notion that agencies have high quality data to support their programs.

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