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I. Introduction II. Veterans First and Government-Wide SDVOSB Programs A. Determining a Veteran's Service-Connected Disability Rating B. Federal Contracting Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veterans C. Government-Wide SDVOSB Program 1. SDVOSB Program [...]

I. Introdution 703 II. History of Small Business Set-Asides 706 A. Reasoning Behind the Creation of Small Business Set-Asides 706 1. Importance of Small Businesses 706 2. What Set-Asides Do [...]

I. Introduction 445 II. Small Business Procurement Policy: General Framework 450 A. The U.S. Approach: Maximum Practicable 450 B. The European Approach: Tension Between Fair Access, 453 SME Competitiveness, and [...]

I. Introduction II. The Small Business Innovative Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program Overview A. SBIR/STTR Solicitations B. SBIR/STTR Solicitation Evaluation Factors--Phase I C. SBIR/STTR Solicitation Evaluation Factors--Phase [...]

That is the question. Equipment leasing makes Hamlets out of most entrepreneurs. One of the greatest obstacles for entrepreneurs ready to expand their businesses is finding the cash to upgrade [...]

Outsourcing enables companies to focus on core activities and increase flexibility by knowing when to farm out functions best done by others. Tom Asacker is a manufacturer who doesn't actually [...]

Landing a contract isn't easy. Here's how your company can come out on top. The heat is on the nation's small businesses. As corporate America continues its push for quality, [...]

Government procurement is big business, even in Montana. For instance, is fiscal year 1989 the federal government purchased more than $153 million in goods and services from Montana businesses. Of [...]

The reasons for teaming up with small logistics company like P.G. Logistics by Kraft Foods' to transport its various food products in China have been discussed.

Rodney Hunt, president and chief executive officer of RS Information Systems Inc., expects only 10 percent of Iris company's $200 million in 2002 revenue will come from contracts set aside […]

This article discusses the United States Defense Department's efforts to establish relationships with businesses of all sizes. The author maintains the Defense Department is in the midst of a transformation and is counting on businesses, especially small businesses, to help support the e-government and homeland security initiatives.

Paying for photos doesn't always give you the right to use them. Suppose you hire a photographer to shoot photos of your products. You order prints and pay the bill. [...]

A new fleet of heavy-duty trucks arrived at PWS Foods, Inc., in Grand Prairie, Texas, in 1993. Since then, the refrigerated trucks have made daily deliveries to supermarkets, convenience stores, [...]

It's happened again. For the third time in as many years, a watchdog found that con artists and ineligible companies gamed the government's procurement system to fraudulently win small business [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department has made impressive progress in awarding a high percentage of its contracts to veteran-owned small businesses, but needs to improve its ability to verify the status [...]

When the Small Business Administration releases the fiscal 2009 report on agencies' progress meeting small business contracting goals, the familiar red, yellow and green stoplight-style ratings will be noticeably absent, [...]

A bill to make it easier for small businesses to win federal contracts on Thursday cleared the Senate committee where similar provisions have stalled, and the panel's leader said she [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department has set strict guidelines for bidding on contracts set-aside for veteran-owned small businesses. Entrepreneurs will be allowed only one company at a time in the contracting [...]

Civilian agencies might soon be required to set aside a percentage of funds from multiple-award, multiagency contracting vehicles for small businesses. The provision, included in the 2010 Small Business Contracting [...]

Small businesses owned by veterans have jumped to the front of the line for Veterans Affairs Department contracts. VA published a final rule (http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-28461.htm) in the Federal Register on Dec. [...]

The Government Accountability Office audited a handful of service-disabled veteran-owned small business contracts, and might have discovered the tip of a large iceberg of fraud. Of more than 100 allegations [...]

The Small Business Administration on Wednesday proposed some of the most comprehensive changes to its 8(a) small and disadvantaged business contacting program in more than a decade. The proposed revisions [...]

More than $1 out of every $4 spent on federal Recovery Act contracts has gone to small businesses, but several large spenders appear to be lagging behind in including small [...]

Proposed registration, reporting and disclosure laws for alternatives managers likely to be passed by Congress before year end could force a swath of smaller managers to close and could have [...]

AT&T (NYSE:T) is getting more aggressive in its connected netbook push, today making its line of connected Acer (TPE:2353), HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Panasonic (NYSE:PC) netbooks and laptops available to small [...]

Leader Banks are once again in the firing line, this time for refusing to treat small businesses with respect. According to the government, some banks are arbitrarily changing the terms [...]

The power channel stands accused of actively trying to gain access to government contracts that are supposed to be ring-fenced for independent dealers An OPI investigation has uncovered an alarming [...]