PETALUMA, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 15,2014) - According to the American Small Business League, every year by thistime the Small Business Administration (SBA) releases the government scorecardthat reports the dollar volume and percentage of federal contracts awarded tosmall businesses. The SBA has a track record of releasingthe data in a manner to reduce media pick up. They prefer to releasethe data late on a Friday afternoon preferable just before a three-day weekend.

Last year the FY 2012 Scorecard wasreleased just before the July 4th weekendas the American Small Business League predicted in their July 1, 2013 press release.

The SBA has made no announcements asto why the release of the data has been delayed. Every year for the lastdecade, when the SBA releases their data it prompts a number of stories in the press regarding the SBA's inclusion of hundreds of Fortune 500 firms and otherclearly large businesses in their small business statistics.

Every year since 2003, when it isreported that Fortune 500 firms are receivingfederal small business contracts, the SBA insists the inclusion ofbillions of dollars in federal contracts to Fortune 500 firms is the result of miscoding, computer glitches, anomalies, data entryerrors and simple human error. The SBA has never been asked why thealleged random errors do not have a random pattern of distribution, but always divert small business contracts to large businesses.

In 2011 the SBA claimed the data was clean and free of dataanomalies such as miscoding. That year 61% of the top 100 recipientsof federal small business contracts were large businesses. In 2011, 72% of the top 100 recipientsof small business contracts were large businesses. In 2012, 235 Fortune 500 firms received federal smallbusiness contracts. In 2013, 175 Fortune 500 firmsreceived federal small business contracts.

Some of the firms that have beenincluded in the SBA's small business contracting data include, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, IBM,AT&T, General Electric, Dell, Lockheed Martin, Textron, PepsiCo, Disney,British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) and Rolls-Royce. According to a story in The New York Times,Rosoboronexport in Russia received $378 million in federal small businesscontracts in 2011.

The American Small Business League ispreparing to file a Freedom of Information Act request to force the SBA torelease the FY 2013 Scorecard. ASBL also plans to file an injunction in FederalDistrict Court in San Francisco to stop the SBA from including contracts tocorporate giants in their federal small business contracting data.

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