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News Proposed rule change could hit small IT businesses By Mark RockwellFederal Computer Week October 22, 2014A proposedchange to Small Business Administration rules governing small IT resellercontractors will have dire consequences for those businesses, a longtime...

News Small-Biz Gov't Contracts Going To Big Firms, Group Says By Dietrich Knauth Law 360 October 3, 2014Law360, New York (October 03, 2014, 5:49 PMET) -- Procurement data obtained by the American Small Business League showsthat large companies received millions of...

News SBA Data Show Large Firms Are Nabbing Contracts Reserved for Small Businesses By Charles S. ClarkGovernment Executive October 2, 2014Federal procurement data show that large companies, including leadingdefense contractors, last year received millions of dollars...

News Agency Lies About How Much It's Helping Small Businesses By Brianna EhleyThe Fiscal Times September 30, 2014Earlier this year, the Small Business Administration announced that thefederal government had reached its goal of awarding at least 23 percent of itstotal...

News More Lies: Watchdog Finds Government "Greatly Exaggerated" Success In Funding Small Businesses Last Year By Tyler DurdenZero Hedge September 30, 2014Newinvestigations by the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of InspectorGeneral have found...

News Agency Lies About How Much It's Helping Small Businesses By Brianna Ehley The Fiscal Times September 30, 2014 Earlier this year, the Small Business Administration announced that the federal government had reached its goal of awarding at least 23 percent of its...

News A quarter century later, Pentagon's test program for small businesses still untestedDefense Department, business groups say program should be scrapped By J.D. HarrisonThe Washington Post September 29, 2014During its approval of the defense budget backin 1989,...

News The Fuzzy Math of a Federal Program for Minority-Owned Businesses By Patrick ClarkBloomberg Businessweek September 29, 2014Federal agencies handed out more than $83billion in contracts to small businesses in 2013, allowing Washington tosurpass its goal of...

News A quarter century later, Pentagon's test program for small businesses still untested Defense Department, business groups say program should be scrapped By J.D. Harrison The Washington Post September 29, 2014 During its approval of the defense budget back in 1989,...

News SBA watchdog just blew a hole in small business contracting 'achievement' By Kent HooverWashington Bureau Business Journals September 26, 2014Think the federal government's small business contractingnumbers are inflated? The Small Business Administration's...

News Report: Agencies exaggerated success with small-business contracting goals By Josh HicksThe Washington Post September 25, 2014Federal agencies overstated their successlast year in contracting with small businesses thatface socio-economic disadvantages, according...

News SBA administrator faces a tough crowd at House Small Business Committee By Kent HooverWashington Bureau September 10, 2014SBA Administrator MariaContreras-Sweet got a taste Wednesday of what awaits her from the HouseSmall Business Committee, which doesn't want...

News Federal Agencies' Small Business Contracting Milestone Questioned By Adrienne BurkeYahoo! Small Business August 24, 2014Earlier this month the Yahoo! Small Business Advisor Profit Minded Blog reported hereon an apparently momentous achievement the Small Business...

News Federal Agencies' Small Business Contracting Milestone Questioned By Adrienne Burke Yahoo! Small Business August 24, 2014 Earlier this month the Yahoo! Small Business Advisor Profit Minded Blog reported here on an apparently momentous achievement the Small...

News Small Biz Group Slams Proposed Contract Fraud Safe Harbor By Dietrich Knauth Law360 August 18, 2014Law360, New York (August 18, 2014, 7:47 PM ET)-- The American Small Business League on Monday criticized a proposed safeharbor from fraud penalties for large...

News How Many Big Contractors Are Actually Posing As Small Businesses? By Charles S. ClarkGovernment Executive August 18, 2014In the sixth of its annual studies, a small business advocacy group hasagain blasted the government for allegedly awarding contracts to...

News Officials say the government kept its promise to small businesses. Did it really?The numbers don't tend to stand the test of time. By J.D. HarrisonThe Washington Post August 4, 2014By J.D.Harrison August 4 It'sofficial. The federal government has for the first...

News Small business weekly: Bouncing back, with no signs of slowing down By J.D. HarrisonThe Washington Post July 7, 2014By J.D. Harrison July 7 A review of the biggestsmall business and startup stories from the past week, with a special focus onWashington.Bouncing...

News Will an Obscure Pentagon Small Business Program Live On? By Charles S. Clark Government Executive July 2, 2014Deep in the bowels of the Pentagon is a 25-year-old research projectdesigned to test a new way of encouraging large contractors to pass along someof...

News How 8,500 large companies will become small businesses overnight By J.D. HarrisonThe Washington Post June 17, 2014When the clock strikes midnighton Sunday, July 13, thousands of relatively large companies will — poof —suddenly become small businesses.It's not...

News Small Business Administration adjusts standards, makes big businesses small By Tucker EcholsWashington Business Journal June 17, 2014Such is the power of inflation that thousands of largecompanies will become "small" next month. Taking into considerationwhat's...

News How one small word change could mean many more contracting dollars for small businesses By J.D. HarrisonThe Washington Post May 25, 2014By J.D. Harrison May 25 Sometimesit's the nuance in a phrase that matters most. For small governmentcontractors, that appears...

News Pentagon sued for refusing to release contracting data By EditorialStrategic Defense Intelligence May 16, 2014A non-profit organisation representing small businesses in theUS is suing the Pentagon under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).TheAmerican Small...

News Pentagon sued by American Small Business League over FOIA requestThe American Small Business League says it has filed suit in U.S. Federal Court against the Department of Defense for not turning over contracting information requested under the Freedom of...

News Meet 4 People Giving Small Businesses a Big Voice in WashingtonSmall-business owners may have a hard time getting their views heard in our nation's capitol, but these 4 leaders are trying to change that. By Kelly Spors American Express Open Forum May 13, 2014May...

News Verizon, Citigroup, Others Trample Small Businesses For Govt Contracts Nation's Leading Governmental Contract Law Expert Asserts Massive Fraud in SBA's Failure to Assure Federal Contracts for Small Businesses By VW StaffValueWalk April 2, 2014Ina newly published...

News House committee rips SBA for unauthorized pilot programs, contracting woes By J.D. HarrisonThe Washington Post March 26, 2014Members of the House Small Business Committee on Tuesday votedunanimously in favor of several revisions to the Small...

News A Small Business Whistle-Blower Gets a Fraud Settlement By Patrick ClarkBloomberg Businessweek March 25, 2014Contracting for the federal government is aspecialized but lucrative field. Small businesses that managed to navigate thearcane rules for bidding for...

News McCaskill probes 'clunky' contracting databases By Adam MazmanianFCW March 6, 2014The federal government maintainsinformation about federal contractor performance in a system of databases thatis supposed to keep contract officers up to date on how well...