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News Federal government misses small business contract goal - again By Jose PaglieryCNN Money July 3, 2012NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- For the sixth year in a row, the government has missed its goal to award 23% of all federal contract dollars to small businesses.On...

News Watchdog group wants truth in small business procurement By Adrienne BurkeYahoo SmallBiz Vote June 28, 2012The Obama Administration hasn't yet released its annual report on the proportion of federal contract dollars awarded to small businesses in the past year,...

News Russian Arms Dealer Was Classified as a Small Business, Briefly By Robb MandelbaumNY Times June 18, 2012 Here’s a new topic for You’re The Boss: Russian arms for Syria. Russian-made helicopters are en route to Syria, sold to the Assad regime by Rosoboronexport,...

News Procurement Chief tells Agencies to Focus on Small Business Set-asides By Charles S. ClarkGovExec June 8, 2012 Agencies must report on their progress in steering federal contracting set-asides to specific types of small businesses, according to new direction from...

News Small business coalition blasts SBA’s figures By Central Valley Business TimesCentral Valley Business Times June 7, 2012 Accuses agency of inaccurate statistics•  ‘The government must ensure that small business data is accurate and timely.A coalition of 25...

News Small business procurement report needs adjustment, group says By Sarah ChackoFederal Times June 7, 2012In anticipation of the government’s annual small business procurement scorecard this summer, a group of small business advocates and watchdog  groups has asked...

News Small business coalition blasts SBA’s figures By Central Valley Business Times Central Valley Business Times June 7, 2012 Accuses agency of inaccurate statistics •  ‘The government must ensure that small business data is accurate and timely. A coalition of 25...

News Measure to Dock Federal Executive Bonuses Weakened by U.S. Panel By Nick TaborekBloomberg May 11, 2012  A U.S. congressional committee weakened a proposal that would have automatically eliminated the bonuses of top federal executives whose agencies missed targets...

News Small Vendors Win Record Amount of Contracts: BGOV Barometer By Nick TaborekBloomberg April 17, 2012April 17 (Bloomberg) -- Small companies are winning a record share of business under the U.S. government¹s fastest- growing class of contracts.The BGOV Barometer...

News The case of President Obama's missing oil tax By Carrie Budoff BrownPolitico April 17, 2012 Candidate Barack Obama pushed it hard in 2008: a tax on Big Oil company profits that would flow back to families in $1,000 rebate checks.President Barack Obama acts as if...

News Seven plead guilty in Navy contracting fraud By Greg Moran, Jeanette Steel March 29, 2012SAN DIEGO — Seven people, including four civilian employees at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to participating in a...

News Ex-DoD official sentenced in Ga. for bribery By Greg BluesteinAssociated Press March 28, 2012ATLANTA — A Department of Defense official said Wednesday he long resisted the call of corruption while on assignment in Afghanistan before he finally relented and took a...

News How the New York Times Co. Became a Small Business By Robb MandelbaumNY Times March 15, 2012Perhaps for as long as the federal government has reported which of its contracts have been awarded to small businesses, critics have charged that many of those contracts...

News Former Business Executive Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in Alleged $28 Million Bribery and Kickback Scheme Scam Involved Steering of Government Contracts, Payments to Former Managers at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers By U.S. AttorneyFederal Bureau of...

News DoD Inspector General Finds Playing Field Still Not Level By Defense Industry Daily Defense Industry Daily March 8, 2012In February 2012 the Inspector General (IG) at the US Department of Defense released a report [PDF] finding that DOD had awarded hundreds of...

News Apparent disconnect on contractor lawsuit is business as usual By Alice LipowiczFederal Computer Week March 7, 2012It is a situation that has raised some eyebrows: the Coast Guard commandant last weekend honored a contractor accused of fraud by the Justice...

News Federal Executive Bonus-Docking Bill Panned by Vendor Group By Nick Taborek March 7, 2012 (Updates with House committee’s approval of bill in ninth paragraph.)(Bloomberg) -- The largest advocacy group for federal service contractors is opposing a bill that would...

News Report: Many small-business contracts awarded to large companies By Francis RoseFederal News Radio February 27, 2012Monday - 2/27/2012, 6:20pm  ET ListenBrian Reeder, communications director, American Small Business League Download Some of the biggest contracts...

News Who Really Gets Uncle Sam's Small Business ContractsThree of every four "small business" contracts awarded by the U.S. government go to the likes of Apple, Chevron and GE. By Constantine Van HoffmanInc.com February 24, 2012In the last fiscal year, 72 of the...

News Large Cos. Win ~$16b Contracts Reserved for Small Businesses By Sophia YanBloomberg February 23, 2012(Bloomberg) -- About $16.4b in government contracts reserved for small businesses actually went to large cos. incl. Lockheed, Boeing, General Dynamics, Jacobs...

News IBM, AT&T Unfairly Getting Small-Business Contracts: Study By Marcus BaramHuffington Post February 23, 2012Some of the world's biggest companies are benefiting from a program meant to help America's small businesses, according to a new study.Lockheed Martin, IBM...

News Report: Billions in federal small-business contracts go to large firms By Olga KhazanWashington Post February 23, 2012Here are just a few of the companies that were considered a small business in the past year: Apple, Chevron, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney....

News Large Businesses Winning More Small Business Government Contracts By Neil GordonProject on Government Oversight - POGO February 23, 2012The American Small Business League (ASBL) has more distressing news about federal small business contracting. ASBL reviewed the...

News Small business polls reject anti-regulation rhetoric By Frank Knapp, Jr.The Hill February 1, 2012With Congress back in session, the Senate will have several bills to consider that seek to make it nearly impossible for federal agencies to implement regulations....

News Don't Merge the Small Business AdministrationCombining the federal agency with others means weakening the only government advocate for millions of small business owners By Scott ShaneBloomberg Business Week January 27, 2012In mid-January, President Obama...

News Don't Merge the Small Business Administration Combining the federal agency with others means weakening the only government advocate for millions of small business owners By Scott Shane Bloomberg Business Week January 27, 2012 In mid-January, President Obama...

News Obama Outdoes Pro-Business Republicans By Gary Weiss January 18, 2012NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Don't listen to all the balderdash coming from the Republican Party, especially its shrinking roster of presidential candidates, about how President Obama is...

News Reauthorization of Federal Program Reduces Opportunities for Small Business Contractors By Resources for Entrepreneurs StaffResources for Entrepreneurs January 10, 2012Reauthorization Of Federal Program Reduces Opportunities For Small Business ContractorsWritten...

News Feared gridlock aftermath: Less help for small business By Cathy McKitrickSalt Lake Tribune December 1, 2011 Although politicians share broad consensus about how important small businesses are to the economic recovery, potential congressional spending cuts could...