News Contracting Review Touches Off Concerns By Keith GirardAllBusiness.com April 6, 2006 The rules of the game could be changing for winning General Services Administration (GSA) contracts and some small business advocates fear that the playing field could be...
News SBA: efficiency or death? By Victor GodinezDallas Morning News April 4, 2006 The future of the Small Business Administration will be up for discussion on Thursday at a Senate subcommittee hearing, but the debate has already begun. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.,...
News SBA and Small Business Programs in Peril? SBIR Insider Newsletter April 3, 2006 Depending on who you want to listen to, Congress and the Administration may be trying to eliminate the SBA and most of its small business programs, or they are merely evaluating the...
News Fighting Over the SBA's Future? By Keith GirardAllBusiness.com April 3, 2006 A lawmaker's plan to hold a Capitol Hill hearing on the Small Business Administration ignited the ire of small business advocate Lloyd Chapman. Now the lawmaker is firing back. Sen. Tom...
News National Small Business Week Events Scaled BackWith much focus still on Katrina recovery, the Small Business Administration's annual expo will be truncated this year. By Angus LotenInc.com April 3, 2006 Facing a growing backlog of disaster loan applications in...
News Problems at the SBA By Lloyd ChapmanMinority Business Entrepreneur April 1, 2006 Federal contracting programs for women and minorities are under attach, and it's time to fight back. The conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for Public Policy Research...
News SBA in the Hot Seat By Joel RussellHispanic Business Magazine April 1, 2006 Since 2001, the budget of the Small Business Administration (SBA) has decreased 38 percent or 45 percent when adjusted for inflation. Opposing opinions regarding the reasons driving the...
News GAO: Small Businesses Lose Out on Deals By Hope YenAssociated Press March 31, 2006 Small businesses lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars in Energy Department contracts each year because the government often gives no-bid work to large firms on flimsy...
News Senator: SBA may have engaged in illegal lobbying By Daniel Pulliamgovexec.com March 31, 2006 A statement circulated by a California small business group earlier this week has ignited a controversy over a Senate subcommittee hearing on the effectiveness of the...
News Firm pays $1 million to settle claims it misrepresented its size By Jenny Mandelgovexec.com March 31, 2006 A Fortune 1000 company's subsidiary has agreed to pay the federal government $1 million to settle allegations that it falsely represented itself as a small...
News Big Things in Small Packages The Current March 30, 2006 It may be sunny in Washington today, but a hard raining is falling for some around the beltway just the same.After years of accusations and hand-wringing, the Federal government is finally doing something...
News Small business group says SBA moving closer to abolition Central Valley Business Times March 30, 2006 An April 6 hearing called by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is one of the precursors to eliminating the Small Business Administration, says a California small...
News The American Small Business League says it will file its third lawsuit seeking to compel SBA to release information Set-Aside Alert March 24, 2006 The League charges SBA is withholding information that would identify large companies posing as small ones to...
News Showdown Looms on Federal Contracts By Keith GirardAllBusiness.com March 14, 2006 The federal government awarded more than $119 billion in contracts to small business in 2004, a notable achievement -- if, in fact, the companies were truly "small". But the...
News SBA budget cuts viewed with concern By Victor GodinezDallas Morning News March 12, 2006 DALLAS In a nearly $3 trillion federal budget proposed by President Bush for 2007, $624 million to run the Small Business Administration seems like small potatoes. But the...
News POLITICS: BARRETO BATTLES BACK Hispanic Trends March 1, 2006 The Small Business Association has come in for a lot of criticism this year, with Administrator Hector Barreto Jr. taking most of the heat.An internal investigation recently showed that after 9/11, a...
News The Shrinking SBA Budget Doesn't Faze Many Firms By James M. PethokoukisUS News February 27, 2006 You know the old quip about Uncle Sam: There's nothing scarier than hearing someone say, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."But the folks at the...
News Small business advocate sees unrelenting effort to destroy SBASmall business will be shut out of government contracts By Doug CaldwellCentral Valley Business Times February 16, 2006 President George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress are hell-bent on...
News Officials: SBA may be on its last legsNot so, says spokesman for the federal agency By Kevin J. ShayGazette.net February 3, 2006 Since 2001, the Bush administration and Congress have chopped about half of the general budget of the Small Business Administration, a...
News The Incredible Shrinking CompanyCorporate giants snag federal small business set-aside contracts. By Christopher MoraffDollars & Sense February 1, 2006 Between 2002 and 2005, St. Augustine, Fla., exercise equipment vendor Raul Espinosa watched mystified as, one...
News For the PeopleLanding government contracts is tough--but it can be done. Learn from these entrepreneurs and Uncle Sam could become your biggest client. By Joshua KurlantzickEntrepreneur magazine February 1, 2006 For Liz Lasater, founder of Red Arrow Consulting, a...
News Is the SBA Hurting Small Business?The founder of the American Small Business League says the Bush Administration and the SBA have created a hostile environment By Stacy PermanBusinessWeek Online January 27, 2006 Long a champion of small business, Lloyd Chapman,...
News Mr. Barreto: Please Resign By Lloyd ChapmanWorcester Business Journal January 23, 2006 If Hector Barreto were an employee of a public company, he would have already been issued his final paycheck.That's why I was gratified to read the news release from...
News Business competition on an uneven fieldOUR OPINION: FIX SBA'S CRITERIA FOR SMALL-BUSINESS CONTRACTS Miami Herald January 9, 2006 When is a small business not so small? When it comes to U.S. Small Business Administration rules and practices that allow Fortune 500...
News Amid Controversy, SBA Pushes Forward with Gulf Coast LoansThe Small Business Administration has faced criticism as of late over the handling of its post-9/11 loan program. By Angus LotenInc.com January 9, 2006 Despite coming under fire recently because of loan...
News Small-Business Hiring and Wages Slowed in 2005Despite a boom in the Northeast, a new national payroll report shows only a modest gain in hiring and a drop in average employee salaries. By Angus LotenInc.com January 3, 2006 The nation's small businesses appear to...
News Easy Target?Budget-Cutters in Congress Have Set Their Sights on the SBA By Chris PenttilaEntrepreneur Magazine January 1, 2006 Small business owners find themselves caught in the cross hairs again as Congress considers billions of dollars in cuts to various...
News Giant firms get 'small business' benefitsComplex government rules send millions of dollars intended for small businesses to giant corporations that have Florida subsidiaries. By Jim WyssMiami Herald December 30, 2005 Safety Equipment Co. is part of a massive...
News Slow Business Administration Washington Post December 9, 2005 THERE ARE many competitors for the title. But after viewing the video (available at http://sbc.senate.gov/democrat/20051108.cfm) of a hearing held Nov. 8 by the Senate Committee on Small Business and...
News Senator Queries Slow SBA Hurricane Loans New York Times October 21, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers will investigate loan delays to hurricane-ravaged small companies along the Gulf Coast, the head of a Senate committee that oversees the Small Business...