Defense Bill Markup Includes Small Biz Contracting
May 7, 2012Over the past several months, the House Small Business Committee has introduced and passed a number of bills to reform and improve small-business contracting in the federal marketplace. On Wednesday, May 9, the House Armed Services Committee marked-up the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), in which previous committees had incorporated some of those bills, during a marathon session which finally ended at 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning.
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House To Markup Contracting Reform Bills
March 20, 2012On Thursday, March 22 at 10:00 a.m. EST, the House Small Business Committee is scheduled to markup five bills aimed at reforming and enhancing the federal contracting process. The Committee expects to markup the following bills: Building Better Business Partnerships Act of 2012 (H.R. 3985), which would allow the SBA to...
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Contracting Bills Slotted for House Markup
March 6, 2012Today at 1:00 p.m. EST, the House Small Business Committee is scheduled to markup six bills aimed at reforming and enhancing the federal contracting process. The Committee expects to markup the following bills: Government Efficiency Through Small Business Contracting Act of 2012 (HR 3850), which would, among other things, raise the...
READ MOREBipartisan Small Biz. Contracting Bills Introduced
February 14, 2012Members of the U.S. House Committee on Small Business recently introced three bills aimed at reforming and improving the federal contracting process for small buisness. The Small Business Protection Act of 2012 On Wednesday, Feb. 8, Rep. Joe Walsh (R – Ill.) and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D. – Va.) introduced...
READ MORERep. Mulvaney Bill to Improve Small Biz. Contracting
February 9, 2012On Feb. 2, 2012, Representative Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Chairman of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce, introduced the Subcontracting Transparency and Reliability (STAR) Act of 2012 (H.R. 3893). The STAR Act will increase transparency, improve accountability, and enhance small-business contracting policies by, among other things, ensuring that...
READ MORESBA Publishes New Small Biz Size Standards
February 9, 2012On Feb. 10, 2012, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) published a final rule to change their official size standards. The new rule will increase the revenue-based size standards for more than 37 receipts-based size standards in 34 industries and 3 sub-industries in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)....
READ MOREHouse Members Introduce Contract Bundling Bill
February 9, 2012On Feb. 8, 2012, Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) introduced the Contractor Opportunity Protection (COP) Act of 2012 (H.R. 4081), which seeks to, among other things: · Clarify statutory limits on federal agency bundling, · Create a third party arbiter (either the SBA or a third...
READ MOREHouse Introduces Federal Contracting Bills
February 1, 2012Yesterday, House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves introduced two pieces of legislation that will help to bolster federal contracting opportunities and advocacy efforts for small businesses within the federal agencies. On the subject of federal contracting, Chairman Graves introduced the Government Efficiency through Small Business Contracting Act of 2012...
READ MORESBA Final Rule to Address Contract Bundling
November 1, 2011The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently published a final rule implementing various regulatory changes made by the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. The rule is effective on Nov. 28, 2011, unless the agency receives “significant adverse comment” by Nov. 14, in which case it will publish a withdrawal of the...
READ MOREFeds Just Shy of Small-Biz Contracting Goal
June 28, 2011The U.S. government awarded 22.7 percent of federal contracting dollars to small businesses in Fiscal Year 2010 (Oct. 1, 2009 – Sept. 30, 2010), according to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) fifth annual small business procurement scorecard. While this represents the largest single year increase in more than five...
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