PETALUMA, CA--(Marketwired - June 21, 2017) -According to the American Small Business League, Professor CharlesTiefer has been widely recognized as one of the nation's leading experts ongovernment contracting, federal contracting law and legislation. He is aProfessor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Professor Tiefer has writtenseveral legalopinions that challenge the accuracy of small business contracting datareleased by the Small Business Administration. He has now written an articletitled, "TrumpAdministration Fails At Creating Jobs By Missing Small Business ContractTargets". The article was published on Forbes.com and points out theSBA significantly inflated government small business data by including billionsin federal contracts to Fortune 500 firms in the volume of contracts the SBAclaimed were awarded to small businesses.

OnMay 18^th, the SmallBusiness Administration released their report for fiscal year 2016 claimingsmall businesses received $99.96 billion in federal contracts and 24.34 percentof all federal contracts in 2016.

In his article, ProfessorTiefer states, "Of the $99.96 billion the SBA claimed went to smallbusinesses, it appears no more than 50% of that number went to firms thatcurrently legally qualify as small businesses. In reality, legitimate smallbusinesses may well have received no more than $50 billion in federal contractsand subcontracts in FY 2016. That would come out to just mid-single digitpercentages of the full level of federal acquisitions for FY 2016, a far cryfrom the 24.34 percent claimed by the SBA."

Tiefer also accuses the SBA of excluding themajority of federal acquisitions from their calculations in claiming smallbusinesses received 24.34 percent of all federal contracts. He states,"First, the SBA is counting federal acquisitions for FY 2016 at around$410 billion. That is an artificial and unconvincing low figure. I have writtenin the past that the actual figure is more than double that."

Professor Tieferserved as solicitor and deputy general counsel of the U.S. House ofRepresentatives for 11 years. He also served as Commissioner on theCongressionally chartered, federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraqand Afghanistan from 2008 - 2011.

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