Spotlight: U.S. Dept. of Interior
We are excited to provide this Opportunity Spotlight with the U.S. Dept. of Interior and thank the entire team at the DOI for their commitment to providing access to contracts for small businesses!
Small Biz Contractors' Forum Presents: Contacts & Contracts
October 27, 2010 (Atlanta, GA)
The Small Business Contractors' Forum of the National Association of Small Business Contractors and the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce presents a full day of connections to federal contracting opportunities.
Contacts & Contracts is totally focused on bringing businesses up to date on current contracting opportunities and connecting you with federal agency and prime contractor representatives. During the morning session, we provide a very focused overview of opportunities in the region. The afternoon session is matchmaking between small businesses and representatives from federal agencies and prime contractors.
The National Association of Small Business Contractors and the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce are highly respected supporters of small business contractors. We work hard to bring you up to date information and strong connections to support the growth of your businesses.
National Small Business Contracting Summit - West Coast
November 2 - 3, 2010 ( San Diego, CA)
The National Association of Small Business Contractors present our much requested West Coast summit and industry day (one-on-one meetings).
>>Learn more and register
President Obama Forms Task Force to Increase Small Business Federal Contracting
Today, President Obama issued a memorandum announcing strong steps for his Administration to learn how federal agency spending can be more fair and open to small business contractors, bring greater transparency to the contracting process and data, and act to invigorate federal spending with small firms.
Unfortunately, this announcement most likely comes as an early warning of sub-par FY 2009 achievement of small business federal contracting goals (this data has not yet been publicly released) and continued pressure by small businesses and trade association leaders to end the long standing failure of the federal government to assure a fair and open marketplace inclusive of small businesses including businesses owned by women, minorities, socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and service-disabled veterans.
Even if these steps are being taken now to lessen the impending bad news, we can be heartened by the seriousness of President Obama's response. >>Read full article
NASBC announces "Board of Experts"
The National Association of Small Business Contractors announces the formation of the NASBC | Board of Experts - a select community of professionals to provide trusted insights, education, and mentoring so as to advance the opportunities, competitiveness, and success of small business contractors.
The experts selected for membership on the NASBC | Board of Experts are respected professionals from a variety of industries including business development, financial, legal, and management.
Through a rigorous selection process and ongoing community review by small business owners, the NASBC will maintain an exceptional collection of trusted professionals who will provide ongoing education, mentoring and guidance to small business owners seeking growth through government contracting.
SBA Inspector General Finds Serious Errors in Small Business Federal Contracting Data
Approximately 97 percent of the contract actions in their sample contained one or more inaccurate or incomplete data elements.
Why is this important?
For many years there has been a great concern about large businesses miscoded as small in federal procurement reports, thereby taking set-asides there were intended for small businesses and inflating the dollar amount and percentage of federal contracts going to small businesses.
The Small Business Administration is charged with assuring the accuracy of the data for their annual small business goaling reports. However, it looks like the SBA has not been effectively performing this oversight and the annual goaling reports (which report the percentage of federal contracts going to small businesses, women-owned businesses, 8a firms, etc) are flawed.
HOT: Act now! Tell Congress to investigate this issue and clean up the small business federal contracting goaling data. Sign the petition and contact your Congressional leaders
ADDITIONAL: On April 6, 2010, The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum over the quality of federal spending information. This memorandum includes directives regarding the reporting of sub-awards, maintaining metrics on quality and completeness of federal spending data, and announcing the release of the new USAspending.gov website. We remain very concerned that the federal spending data used by the SBA to report goaling data is not the same data available in USAspending.com even though this web portal is supposed to be the single source for such information.
Small Business Contractors' Forum is the National Online Community for Small Business Government Contractors
Are you registered at the Small Business Contractors' Forum? If not, you should be.
The Small Business Contractors' Forum is the national online community for small business government contractors providing powerful links to information, news, opportunities, small business owners, prime contractors and government agencies.
Provided by the National Association of Small Business Contractors and the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, this exclusive community provides free access to all small business contractors and extra benefits for members of the NASBC and USWCC.
Join the Small Business Contractors' Forum today and get started connecting!
We support America's small business contractors.
Cris Young
President, NASBC
VP, Hudson FastenersWelcome to the National Association of Small Business Contractors' (NASBC) web portal. We are the nation's voice for small business contractors. Representing the hundreds of thousands small business contractors, the National Association of Small Business Contractors works every day to open the doors to opportunity, make connections, provide access to news and resources, and advocate to our governmental leaders to support the advancement of small business contractors.
The NASBC is a unique organization that serves as a central hub for small business contractors. In addition to our traditional work as the nation's leading trade association for small business contractors, we also work strategically to advance your opportunities.
One example of our leadership efforts is the Small Business Contractors' Forum (founded in partnership with the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce) -- the online community for small business contractors and other stakeholders. We bring our community of contractors together to provide greatly enhanced opportunities for contractors to connect with one another; keep up to date on news, information, and opprotunities; seek partners; and raise the visibility of individual businesses.
Support the NASBC. Support the advancement of your business and all small business contractors. Join the National Association of Small Business Contractors.