The American Small Business League (ASBL) announced yesterday that it is preparing to file a preliminary injunction against the US General Services Administration (GSA) to halt the "destruction of the historical contracting data".

ASBL said it expects to file the order on Monday, March 8, 2010.

"There is absolutely no reason to destroy historical contracting data," ASBL president Lloyd Chapman said.

"It's no coincidence that the GSA and the SBA have tried to withhold evidence in the past that would prove that Fortune 500 firms have received federal small business contracts. This is just the latest attempt by the government to reduce transparency and cover-up the fact that large businesses have received billions of dollars a month in federal small business contracts. We are not going to let them do it."

ASBL said it was preparing to use the data in the small business flag field to launch civil and criminal action against large businesses that had received federal small business contracts "fraudulently".

The pressure group claimed that, on March 12, 2010, the Obama Administration intends to move forward with a plan that could "destroy years of incriminating contracting data". The General Services Administration plans to eliminate the socio-economic field, "SmallBusinessFlag," on all historical and future contracting data.

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