ASBL News

News Federal District Court Rules SBA Wrongfully Withheld DocumentsJudge Orders SBA to Comply with Freedom of Information Act to Release Report on Large Companies Illegally Winning Government Small Business Contracts dBusiness News May 4, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO -- The...

News Judge Orders SBA Info Released By Michael HardyFederal Computing Week May 2, 2005 Small Business Administration officials are under a court order to release early drafts of a report that shows some small-business contracting money going to other types of...

News SBA steps up oversight of contractor registrations. Set-Aside Alert April 29, 2005 SBA has begun monitoring entries in the Central Contractor Registration to make sure businesses are what they claim to be. Effective April 22, the agency said, small businesses are...

News Rider on Emergency Military Spending Bill Would Strip Government Contracts from Small Businesses Freshnews.com April 20, 2005 The American Small Business League today denounced a move in Congress to use the emergency spending bill, intended for military costs in...

News Alaska native companies on thin iceLawmakers reconsider special 8(a) privileges By Michael HardyFederal Computer Week April 18, 2005For a small business owned and controlled by an Alaska Native Corporation to be eligible to participate in a special 8(a) federal...

News Uncle Sam's Broken PromisesMoney being set aside for funding technology projects with smaller integrators is lining big pockets. By Jill R. AitoroVAR Business April 8, 2005 Snippets of the topic are everywhere--from the "CBS Evening News" to The New York Times....

News Big Firms Get SBA's Small BusinessReport Concludes Agency Awarded Some Contracts Without Current Size Data By Gwendolyn BoundsWall Street Journal April 5, 2005 A new report details how the U.S. Small Business Administration -- the agency charged with advancing...

News Profile - Lloyd Chapman By Steven Jones-D'AgostinoYourWriters April 1, 2005 Lloyd is an internationally known crusader for the rights of small business people. Something of a Don Quixote, he has taken on the Federal government in an effort to prove the Small...

News Small Businesses Wonder If Banks Understand Them By Lee ConradU.S. Banker March 1, 2005 In mid-2003, Joe Rosario tried to get a small-business loan of under $25,000 to help make ends meet at his popular cafeteria-style restaurant in downtown Manhattan. Though...

News SBA Inspector General Tells Sen. Kerry There Are Few Instances of Size Fraud Minority Business Insider March 1, 2005 The inspector general of the Small Business Admin. assures Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) he has found "very few instances where a large company falsely...

News Case of the Missing Set-Aside By Bernard StamlerN Y Times February 22, 2005 Are small businesses actually getting all the government contracts they should? No, according to a recent report by the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, which is raising...

News Barreto: no "wholesale" fraud in contract reporting. Set-Aside Alert February 18, 2005 SBA Administrator Hector Barreto said there is no widespread fraud by large businesses claiming to be small in order to receive set-aside contracts. A study for SBA's Office of...

News Out of ReachSome say that the SBA is withholding contracts—and important information By Stephen BarlasEntrepreneur February 1, 2005 Small-business groups are taking aim at the SBA for failing to ensure procurement opportunities. Two lawsuits were filed late last...

News Senator John Kerry writes to the SBA requesting change January 25, 2005 His letter to the Honorable Harold Damelin, Inspector general of the SBAKerry's complete letter (pdf document) His letter to the Honorable Hector V. Barreto, Administrator of the SBAKerry's...

News A Small MistakeStudy Shows That Large Companies Have Taken Money Meant for Small Firms By Michael HardyFederal Computing Week January 25, 2005 Small-business advocates have suspected for awhile that some contracting dollars intended for small firms go to large...

News Advocates taking sides over size standards. Set-Aside Alert January 21, 2005 How small is small? That is the heart of the debate over SBA's planned overhaul of size standards. Several organizations representing small and minority businesses hope to persuade SBA...

News SBA Extends Comment Time for Size Rule By Michael HardyFederal Computing Week January 21, 2005 Small Business Administration officials have extended the public comment period on possible new rules governing small-business size. The Advance Notice of Proposed...

News Flaws are found in Small Business Administration program By Dan LaidmanContra Costa Times December 29, 2004 At least $2 billion worth of government contracts slated for small businesses went instead to large corporations -- including Hewlett-Packard Co. and...

News Small-Firm Funds Go AstrayFederal agency allows $2 billion to go to large companies, a report says. By Thuy-Doan LeSacramento Bee December 29, 2004 About $2 billion in federal contract money intended for small businesses went instead to large companies in 2002,...

News Small Firms Shortchanged On Federal ContractsReport Says Big Companies Getting Government Work Are Misclassified as Small By Gwendolyn BoundsThe Wall Street Journal December 28, 2004 A broad new government report, expected to be released today, raises...

News Owner's Manual column By Rob KaiserChicago Tribune December 27, 2004 Dec. 27 AGENCY TO REQUIRE MERGED COMPANIES PROVE THEY'RE SMALL: The Small Business Administration has adopted a new policy requiring small firms with federal contracts to recertify themselves as...

News Agency to Require Merged Companies to Prove They're Small By Rob KaiserChicago Tribune December 27, 2004 The Small Business Administration has adopted a new policy requiring small firms with federal contracts to recertify themselves as small businesses if they...

News Small to Mean Small in Contracts The Wall Street Journal December 21, 2004 A rule change goes into effect today at the Small Business Administration that aims to mitigate problems with how the federal government awards and counts its small-business contracts.The...

News SBA Has New View of "Small"It toughens stand on large-firm contracts. By Thuy-Doan LeSacramento Bee December 21, 2004 Today, the federal government ends a practice that has allowed it to count contracts with large corporations as small-business awards, according...

News Rule Change Seen as Helping Small Business By David WashburnSan Diego Union-Tribune December 21, 2004 A Small Business Administration rule change that takes effect today should make it easier for small businesses to win contracts from the federal government.The...

News How the Feds Starve Small ContractorsDodgy definitions, legal loopholes, and deep-pocketed corporations are depriving small businesses of the federal contracts earmarked for them. By Arlyn Tobias GajilanFortune Small Business December 1, 2004 As an entrepreneur...

News SBA Says It's Not Illegally Withholding Report On Big Firms Miscoded As Small Minority, Woman & Disadvantaged Business Insider December 1, 2004 California: The Small Business Admin. denies it is unlawfully withholding a report about reasons some large businesses...

News Small Government VARs Cry Foul Over Contract Awards To Bigger Firms By T.C. DoyleVAR Business November 29, 2004 With annual sales approaching $1 billion and a worldwide head count upward of 700, one would think it would be next to impossible to consider GTSI a...

News Why U.S. Contracts For Small Businesses Go to Big Companies By Gwendolyn BoundsThe Wall Street Journal November 9, 2004 Cindra Stolk was on the telephone one day in May when her son walked into the office, slapped a fax on her desk, and walked out without saying...

News Lawsuit seeks SBA report on contracting fraud. Set-Aside Alert October 22, 2004 A new small business advocacy group has filed suit seeking to compel SBA to release a report that it says documents fraud and abuse in federal contracting. The California-based...