Is small business ready for DHS’ $3B FirstSource II?
November 4, 2011 by cs
Homeland Security Department officials unveiled the details of their new seven-year, $3 billion FirstSource II contract.
The FirstSource II draft Request for Proposals was released Oct. 31. The final RFP is expected no later than December 31, officials said.
FirstSource I, a $2 billion contract launched in 2007, is expiring and its replacement will concentrate on commodity purchasing through value-added resellers, William Thoreen, director of the Acquisition Division in the Office of Procurement Operations, told 600 small business owners Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Building.
“We really believe FirstSource II is going to become a very important piece of our portfolio both for IT and strategic sourcing,” he said.
Under FirstSource I, DHS has bought commodities through value-added resellers, including the purchase of computers, desktops, laptops, network cards, routers through small businesses, Thoreen said.
“The scope of the commodities we buy under it is very broad because we need a lot of different IT commodities,” Thoreen said, and added that FirstSource II will also include VAR purchases of new IT commodities.
“We have learned an incredible amount from that [initial] award and we are going to incorporate a lot of changes in FirstSource II that makes sense for us and we hope makes sense for you,” he said.
For one, “FirstSource II targets specific [small-business] categories that will help our program managers meet their individual goals,” Thoreen said.
FirstSource II “is going to be different. It will provide opportunities for small businesses to partner up for us. The most important thing is that it succeeds in fulfilling our mission needs. We’re not just contracting for contracting sake; there are mission needs and they need to be primary,” Thoreen said.
DHS CIO Richard Spires summed up the dilemma of most of his peers in government. “I’ve got more things coming at me than ever, more demands,” he said. “And I’m going to have less dollars – a pretty classic problem, right? – we’re feeling the squeeze right now.”
Spires said the new contract would address four DHS priorities: infrastructure rationalization, overall IT improvement, elimination of duplication and balancing the CIO workforce, which has grown to 260 employees during the past few years, to meet the new realities.
“We’ve got to make significant changes, particularly in our infrastructure and the commodity IT arena to be able to offer at least the same level of service – and I would hope more service – to my customer base,” he said.
“Data center consolidation, really looking hard and driving true cloud-based services both in the private cloud, out of our own enterprise data centers, as well as in the public services are certainly a couple of things that we’re doing that are very visible,” Spires said.
Spires added that he wants to leverage DHS’ great buying power as exemplified by FirstSource II “to bring components together in ways that we never have before across a lot of functions within DHS.”
As a result of discussions with the Small Business Administration and others, “we’re going to be able to use all five of the small business categories in which we have set-aside authority,” said Kevin Boshears, director of the DHS Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.
“To our knowledge, this is the first time this has been done in the federal contracting arena,” he added.
As a result, FirstSource II will have clear set-aside awards to 8(a), HUBzone, Service Disabled Veteran-Owned, Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned, and general small business.
But Boshears urged all small businesses “to be aware of the individual aspects of these [five] programs. There are common themes that run through all five of them, but there are individual details that may be germane to [only] one of the individual five categories.”
“So be certain that you are comfortable with the rules and all that has been asked of you to participate in any of the five categories,” he added.
Addressing the issue of teaming, Boshears said although teaming has always been a successful part of DHS contracts and because First Source II is all for small business, “we want each participant to be absolutely clear about which firm is serving as the prime contractor in both the pre-award phase and the post-award phase.”
He said that’s important for proposal preparation, for meeting all the requirements of the small business program and for transparency.
To answer “the question I get the very most – how many awards are you going to make?’ Boshears said the proper answer is “competition determines the final number.”
But a scan of previous DHS-wide multiple award contracts, including Eagle I, have averaged 27 to 28 small business prime contracts, he added.
“That doesn’t give you the absolute final number,” he said, “but it does give you kind of an idea of what we’ve done on previous projects.”
About the Author: David Hubler is senior editor of Washington Technology. Published Nov. 3, 2011 at http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/11/03/dhs-firstsource-ii.aspx.
Procurement chief defends Obama’s commitment to small business
October 27, 2011 by cs
A proposed rule to curb agencies’ little used capacity to offer higher payments to needier contractors “will have no impact on the government’s ability or commitment to drive contracting opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses,” Dan Gordon, administrator of the White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said Friday.
In a blog post for the Office of Management and Budget, Gordon sought to reassure some in the minority business community that a proposed regulation issued in September by the Small Business Administration is a routine “housekeeping” tool designed to catch the law up with a 2008 court ruling that declared such price premiums unconstitutional.
“The proposed rule in no way changes the fundamental policies, practices or programs that agencies have been using in recent years to achieve strong SDB
participation in the federal marketplace, including the goal of awarding 5 percent of federal procurement dollars to SDBs,” Gordon wrote.
The affected agencies — the Defense Department, NASA and the U.S. Coast Guard — have not used price premiums to attract disadvantaged small contractors in years, Gordon noted. But the administration has “been working with the Minority Business Development Agency to strengthen the bond between contracting, small business and program offices at every agency,” Gordon wrote. “Since the beginning of [fiscal] 2009, agencies have awarded more than $85 billion in contracts to SDBs, exceeding the goal of awarding at least 5 percent of contract dollars to SDBs.” In fiscal 2010, he added, contract awards to small disadvantaged businesses accounted for 7.95 percent of all eligible contract dollars, “well above the goal.”
Gordon’s clarification came as the Obama administration readied a new set of executive actions designed to spur job creation in large and small businesses
while Congress debates the president’s larger proposed jobs package.
The perception among some that ending premium payments to disadvantaged businesses was a pullback in the administration’s commitment was rejected by Molly Brogan, vice president of public affairs for the National Small Business Association. “At the end of the day, small businesses just want a level playing field,” she told Government Executive. “Ensuring that small businesses — including SDB businesses — have a fair opportunity to compete for federal
dollars ought to be the No. 1 goal. We don’t believe this new rule will change [that] in any way.”
Raul Espinosa, founder of a Jacksonville, Fla. – based university nonprofit called the Fairness in Procurement Alliance, which has been pressing for stronger rules on accelerating payments to small disadvantaged businesses, said he was grateful for the administration’s overall effort, but worries it might be “lip service.” Changes “will mean nothing unless they’re codified into the federal acquisition regulation and referred to in actual contracts,” he
said.
– by Charles S. Clark – Government Executive – October 24, 2011 – http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=49130&dcn=e_tma
House subpoenas four agencies for small-business noncompliance
October 26, 2011 by cs
Four federal agencies were issued subpoenas by the House Small Business Committee on Oct. 20 for not complying with the Small Business Act’s procurement policies, according to a committee staffer.
The departments of Justice, Agriculture, Treasury and State were summoned to appear before the the Small Business subcommittee on contracting and workforce on Nov. 1 to testify why they are in noncompliance.
At issue is the “structure” of these agencies’ Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Offices (OSDBU) and “the fact that they are not reporting to the agency head or deputy head,” wrote Darrell Jordon, house committee spokesman, in an e-mail to Washington Technology.
OSDBUs were conceived in 1978 with the purpose of having federal agencies set aside contracts for small and disadvantaged businesses. The Small Business Act also has requirements that agencies report their procurement activities with small and disadvantaged businesses.
Justice, Agriculture, Treasury and State were warned of their missteps and given a chance to remedy the situation after a June Government Accountability Office small business contracting report found seven agencies not in compliance.
Following that report, letters to agencies were sent by subcommittee Chairman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC). As a result, the Interior Department and Social Security Administration are now in compliance, and a third, the Commerce Department, was pardoned due to an administrative issue.
In September, agencies were reminded of their noncompliance by memo and a hearing was held on Sept. 15 by the subcommittee to examine the GAO report and the economic impact of noncompliance.
As part of the subpoena procedure, the four agencies must produce a number of documents, including paperwork relating to their small business procurement programs, attainment of small business goals or challenges to decisions not to restrict competition to small business between Jan. 20, 2009, and Sept. 30, 2011.
About the Author: Alysha Sideman is an online content producer with 1105 Government Information Group. Published by Washington Technology – Oct. 21, 2011 at http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/10/21/small-biz-committee-subpoenas.aspx
SAM deployment likely to be delayed; GSA might replace DUNS
October 25, 2011 by cs
A General Services Administration (GSA) effort to consolidate federal online acquisition systems will likely receive no development money during the current fiscal year, causing GSA officials to anticipate a delay in the project.
However, GSA officials are going forward with a planned sources sought notice, to be released shortly, seeking private sector input on the viability of replacing mandatory federal vendor acquirement of a DUNS number from Dun & Bradstreet with a government-generated unique identifier.
If the government does replace DUNS with its own unique identifier system for vendors, the transition would likely be tied to the third phase of the online acquisition system consolidation effort, said Kathleen Turco, head of GSA’s office of governmentwide policy, during an Oct. 21 interview.
The integration effort seeks to consolidate 9 currently separate systems into one, to be known as the System for Award Management, or SAM. IBM received a $74.4 million contract in 2010 to develop the SAM architecture; part of the consolidation effort includes unifying the currently disparate databases into a single, unified one.
Because GSA received $7 million in development funds during fiscal 2011, which ended on Sept. 30, it will be able to proceed with the first phase of the consolidation, which will tie together Central Contractor Registration, Online Representations and Certifications Application and the Excluded Parties List System.
Starting in May, front-end users will find that they have to log onto SAM only once to access the functionalities of all three systems, Turco said.
However, a request for $15 million in development, modernization and enhancement money for the current fiscal year has bumped up against spending constraints; the Senate Appropriations Committee markup of GSA’s fiscal 2012 spending bill denied the request in total. The House version would appropriate about $3 million in DME money for the project, Turco said. Congress has yet to pass any fiscal 2012 appropriations bill; the federal government is operating under a continuing resolution that expires on midnight of Nov. 18.
As a result of the House and Senate marks, Turco said GSA will likely postpone roll out of phase 2, under which GSA plans to consolidate FedBizOps, the Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System, and the Assistance Program Catalog. Originally, GSA had planned to unveil that phase in the spring of 2013; if GSA receives sufficient funding for fiscal 2013, it would be able to complete that phase in spring 2014, Turco said.
The third phase would consolidate FPDS , Wage Determinations Online and the Past Performance Information Retrieval System. The earliest phase 3 could now be completed–it was originally planned for spring 2014–is now spring 2015, Turco said.
It’s in conjunction with phase 3 that GSA would likely also transition from using DUNS as a unique vendor identifier to a government-generated number, if GSA decides to do so, Turco added.
Vendors wishing to do business with the government must receive a unique identifier–in some cases, more than one, depending on the number of physical locations and legal divisions a company has–and GSA has long contracted with Dun & Bradstreet for government vendors to receive Data Universal Numbering System identifier for free.
But, the government pays Dun & Bradstreet $18 million a year for the service, making it the single most expensive element of the Integrated Acquisition Environment, the name GSA gives to 9 systems set for consolidation into SAM.
“We’ve had a lot of push on us from the Hill and many vendors have said to us ‘Why is it only Dun and Bradstreet?’” Turco said.
However, replacing DUNS would be no easy task, she acknowledged, since DUNS are used in financial systems to pay vendors and have become deeply integrated into IAE feeder systems.
– by David Perera, Fierce Government IT, Oct. 24, 2011 – http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/turco-sam-deployment-likely-be-delayed-gsa-might-replace-duns/2011-10-22?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Who are the top 8(a)s in today’s market?
October 19, 2011 by cs
Each year our Top 25 8(a) rankings reveal some of the hidden and not-so-hidden gems of the government market.
This year is no exception, and the gem sitting at the top of the rankings for the third year running is MicroTech LLC, a business with a record of growth that is bringing it a higher profile in the government market.
This year, MicroTech has landed at No. 1 on the 2011 Top 25 8(a) rankings, No. 2 on the Washington Technology 2011 Fast 50 list of the fastest growing government contractors, and No. 75 on our 2011 Top 100. In 2010, the company also captured spots on all three Washington Technology rankings.
The 2011 Top 25 8(a) rankings are based on an analysis of federal procurement data using the same group of product and service codes we use to rank the annual Top 100 contractors. The codes cover IT, telecommunications, systems integration, engineering services, professional services and other IT-related spending by government agencies.
The companies on the list are all participants in the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) business development program, which is designed to promote the growth of minority-owned small businesses. There are five companies on the rankings that have graduated from the program, but we left them on because their graduation dates fell so late in fiscal 2011.
We took a second step in our analysis by pulling out companies owned by Alaska Native Corporations and American Indian tribes. We’ve listed those companies in a separate chart.
In addition to MicroTech, there are eight other companies making a repeat appearance on the Top 25. These include ActioNet, USfalcon, Alon Inc., 2020 Co., Guident Technologies, Ace Info Solutions, and M2 Technology.
The capabilities and services provide by the Top 25 cover the breadth of the IT-related services that the government is buying.
For example, Primescape Solutions Inc., No. 14, provides strategic planning, software development, business intelligence, enterprise content management and IT services. Customers include the State and Health and Human Services departments, the Government Printing Office, the Army, and the Navy.
2020 Co., No. 7, has focused its solutions in three core areas: health care, education and science.
Advanced C4 Solutions, No. 18, targets military customers with enterprise IT services, intelligence, and tactical and strategic communications.
In fact, focus seems to be a common thread among these companies, with each finding and excelling in its particular niche.
“We’re a reseller, but we only resell what we are experts in,” said MicroTech’s CEO Tony Jimenez in an interview earlier this year. “That’s how you bring value.”
About the Author: Nick Wakeman is the editor-in-chief of Washington Technology. Published Oct. 11, 2011 at http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/10/03/small-biz-top-25-intro.aspx?s=wtdaily_171011.
The ghosts of small businesses past
October 17, 2011 by cs
In June, many agencies proudly tweeted that they had received an A from the Small Business Administration because they did such a good job of awarding contracts to small companies in fiscal 2010.
And although SBA shared their enthusiasm, many critics say the recognition is unfounded because the program is fundamentally flawed.
The government awarded nearly $98 billion in federal contracts to small businesses last year, or 22.7 percent of eligible contracting dollars, according to SBA. The goal was 23 percent. It was the second year in a row that the money going to small businesses went up, and it was the largest two-year increase in more than a decade.
“We’re obviously excited about the progress we’ve made,” said Joe Jordan, associate administrator of government contracting and business development at SBA, during a conference call June 23, the day before the score cards were released.
Ten of the 24 agencies that SBA evaluated received a higher grade in 2010 than they did in 2009, while 10 agencies’ grades stayed the same. SBA gave 13 As, five Bs, four Cs and two Ds. SBA received a B, as did the government as a whole.
However, many experts say the grades aren’t accurate because the businesses that are winning the contracts often aren’t small.
Agencies routinely get credit for awarding contracts to small businesses that have outgrown that status or been bought by large corporations. Therefore, in many cases, a small business is no longer doing the work.
So are the scores correct?
“I think the answer is no,” said Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Contracting Oversight Subcommittee.
Likewise, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), the subcommittee’s chairwoman, went so far as to call the 23 percent small-business goal “an empty achievement.”
She told Jordan during a recent hearing that “by taking the position you’re taking, you’re essentially saying to the public, ‘By the way, we’re saying 22.7, but don’t believe it.’”
However, Jordan said agencies are doing exactly what the program was designed to help them do: Award contracts to small businesses and watch the companies grow big.
Federal rules allow a company to maintain its small status for as long as five years before it must recertify its size. At that point, any small-business contracts it holds either maintain their classification or are reclassified based on the company’s new status.
That approach is an improvement, Jordan said. The policy used to be “once a small-business contract, always a small-business contract.” It didn’t matter who bought the company or how large it grew.
Nevertheless, some acquisition experts see the issue as Portman and McCaskill do. And they see the scoring as shady.
Sure, the program follows the rules and might be technically correct, said Jaime Gracia, president and CEO of Seville Government Consulting, a federal acquisition and program management consulting firm. But there’s plenty of room for tougher standards and clarity about a company’s size.
He said federal officials should require companies to certify their size every year to get a true picture of small-business contracting. That’s not happening now, which means “SBA is asleep at the switch,” Gracia said.
Guy Timberlake, co-founder and chief visionary officer at the American Small Business Coalition, said there should be changes in how agencies set aside contracts and how officials oversee them. And the government must enforce size standards so that small companies can reap the benefits.
He said a program that encourages subcontracting with small companies would help. When a small business that holds a set-aside contract grows too large, it should award a certain percentage of subcontracts to small firms for each upcoming option year of the contract. Agencies should make that expectation clear when they award the set-aside contracts and get a firm commitment from the companies.
Without such changes, “doing business as a true small business in the federal sector will continue to be — at least in part — an aggravating exercise,” Timberlake said.
About the Author: Matthew Weigelt is a senior writer covering acquisition and procurement for Washington Technology. This article appeared Aug. 22, 2011 at http://fcw.com/articles/2011/08/22/home-page-acquisition-small-business-credit.aspx.
HUBZone changes could affect your business
October 6, 2011 by cs
The Small Business Administration’s HUBZone program helps small businesses gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities, both prime contracts and subcontracts. If your business is located in a HUBZone — a Historically Underutilized Business Zone — you could benefit.
Whether you are familiar with the HUBZone program or this is the first time you’ve heard of it, you need to know there are changes that have just taken place potentially affecting your eligibility.
On October 1, 2011, the areas of the country designated as HUBZones changed. These changes are based on census tracts and the 2010 census data recently issued by the Commerce Department. Contracting preferences can go to small businesses that maintain their “principal office” in one of these specially designated areas and employ people who live in a HUBZone. After meeting these and other standards, a firm must apply for and be granted formal HUBZone certification by the SBA.
The SBA used to maintain a web site where businesses could view a map that displayed HUBZone locations across the country. However, since census-based HUBZone designated areas just changed on October 1st, the on-line maps are not presently available. Instead, a new on-line tool has been put in place where businesses can look up addresses to see if they are in a HUBZone. The new look-up tool is located at: http://map0.sba.gov:82/gis/esri/hubzone/index.html.
With changes in the geographic areas that are and are not HUBZone eligible, many firms no longer qualify while presumably others will now qualify. Whether you were previously HUBZone qualified or not, you should use the look-up tool in the previous paragraph to determine whether you potentially qualify. Remember, a business address located within a designated HUBZone is only one step toward qualifying for HUBZone certification. In order to qualify, at least 35 percent of a company’s employees also must live within HUBZones. Thus, businesses should use the look-up tool to check employee home addresses as well. A full description of all HUBZone certification requirements can be found at http://www.sba.gov/content/applying-hubzone-program.
The SBA currently is in the process of sending out letters to all HUBZone-certified companies asking them to re-verify their eligibility. The SBA is telling these firms to use the look-up link and check addresses to determine whether they still qualify for the program.
Results from using the on-line look-up tool can be confusing. For instance, if the look-up result shows that an address will be qualified “at least until June 1, 2011″ then the address is in a HUBZone that expired on October 1, 2011. The reason for this is that the SBA originally projected the U.S. Census data release date to be June 1, 2011 and this date still appears within SBA’s HUBZone look-up tool.
While complex, participation in the HUBZone program could be worth your while. If your business qualifies for the program, and you pursue SBA’s certification for HUBZone status, you could be the beneficiary of a restricted-competition HUBZone set-aside contract.
More information about all this is at http://www.sba.gov/content/notice-expiration-redesignated-hubzones-october-1-2011. As always , if you need assistance at any point along the way, please contact the GTPAC Procurement Counselor nearest you; all contact information can be found at http://gtpac.org/team-directory.
– Compiled by the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center from information available through several SBA sources.
Move over, FAPIIS – POGO freshens up its contractor database
October 3, 2011 by cs
The federal government’s largest contractors have paid $25.3 billion in fines and penalties for everything from A to Z: from improper accounting practices to selling the government defective Zylon body armor. These and more than 1,400 other misconduct instances can be found in the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD), which has now been updated with fiscal year 2010′s top 100 ranking. [Note: The FCMD is published by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), a nonprofit watchdog group.]
The top 100 features 7 new contractors, including international accounting firm Deloitte LLP, package delivery company United Parcel Service (UPS), and linguistic services provider Mission Essential Personnel. The FCMD now includes misconduct information on 160 of the federal government’s largest suppliers of goods and services.
The top 100 contractors received $276 billion in contracts last fiscal year,
accounting for slightly more than half of the $536 billion in contracts awarded
that year. As of today, these 100 contractors have accumulated 821 misconduct
instances. Thirty-eight of the top 100 have zero or one instance, a reminder
that misconduct need not be accepted as a cost of doing business with the
federal government.
As has occurred in the past, the USAspending.gov data on which the top 100 ranking is based
contains errors. Therefore, you will see double listings for Booz Allen
Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.
Among the instances you will find in the FCMD:
- A Department of Defense Inspector General finding that Boeing overcharged the Army by about $13 million (131.5 percent) for
spare helicopter parts. - A DoD Inspector General audit report issued 4 months later that found United
Technologies’ Sikorsky Aircraft unit overcharged the U.S. Army by as much as $12 million for Blackhawk
helicopter spare parts. - BP’s agreement to provide $1 billion to begin restoration efforts
following last year’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. - The assault plea of a former DynCorp employee who stabbed a man in
Afghanistan in November 2010. - FedEx’s agreement to pay the United States $8 million to resolve allegations of overcharging federal
agencies for package deliveries. - The $4 million settlement of claims that Fluor employees defrauded the federal purchase
card (“P-card”) program at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Site. - Honeywell International’s payment of millions in fines to federal and state authorities for environmental and safety violations at its uranium
hexafluoride (UF6) conversion facility in Illinois. - Humana’s $3.4 million fine for violating Florida’s Medicaid fraud reporting law.
- IBM’s $10 million settlement of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
charges that its Korean and Chinese subsidiaries gave bribes to government
officials. - Corruption charges brought against former SAIC employees alleged to have received kickbacks and overcharged New York
City on the CityTime information technology project.
POGO’s FCMD complements the federal government’s contractor responsibility
database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System, or
FAPIIS. POGO was pleased to discover the recent addition of several new useful
features to FAPIIS, which is on its way to becoming an indispensable resource
that strengthens accountability over the more than $1 trillion in taxpayer money
spent each year on federal contracts and grants.
– Neil Gordon is a POGO Investigator. Published Sept. 29, 2011 at http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/09/move-over-fapiis-pogo-freshens-up-its-contractor-misconduct-database.html.
Get used to government shutdown risks
September 29, 2011 by cs
Now that the third government shutdown threat of the year appears to be nearing resolution, agencies are wondering if they should be ready for more such crises.
In some ways, the regularity of these moments is helpful because agencies made contingency plans the first time that they can still use, according to Stan Collender, budget expert at Qorvis Communications.
“There are plans in place that have made this more routine,” in comparison to the shutdowns of 1995 and 1996, he said. “It does not have to be like ‘The Perils of Pauline.’ ”
Also, the shift to cloud computing may ease pressures as well because information resources are off-site and continuous operation may be facilitated, he added.
On the other hand, a shutdown would be very disruptive and federal managers and workers anticipating a possible shutdown may need to put forth a tremendous effort to manage day-to-day operations while also coping with preparations for emergency operations, Collender said.
As the shutdown approaches, IT systems and operations would be affected, systems would be converted to emergency modes, and ongoing projects could be delayed, he added.
“Software, training and innovation would be put on hold,” Collender said. “If the shutdown goes on for any length, do you lay off people? Do workers get shifted to other duties?”
Budget Director Jacob Lew advised agencies to get used to it.
“Right now, looking at the political debates, there’s unfortunately on the part of some a willingness to force crises, to drive the car to the edge — if not off — the cliff,” he said. “We’ve seen there is a willingness to shut down the government or to run the risk of default, and to run the government by ultimatums as opposed to negotiations.”
About the Authors: Alice Lipowicz is a staff writer for Washington Technology covering government 2.0, homeland security and other IT policies. Camille Tuutti is a staff writer covering the federal workforce. This article appeared Sept. 27, 2011 at http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/09/27/shutdown-risks-still-alive.aspx?s=wtdaily_290911.
Lockheed tops all DOD contractors, analysis finds
September 28, 2011 by cs
Lockheed Martin Corp. topped all Defense Department contractors with about $12.5 billion in 6,334 contracts and contract modifications in 2010, according to an exclusive Aviation Week Intelligence Network analysis.
Boeing Co. came in second with about $8.3 billion for 1,756 transactions, while General Dynamics Corp. ranked No. 3 with about $6.7 billion in 5,604 transactions.
Rounding out the top 10 DOD contractors were:
- Northrop Grumman Corp.
- Oshkosh Truck Corp.
- BAE Systems.
- Bechtel Corp.
- Kellogg, Brown and Root.
- Bell-Boeing Joint Project team.
- Raytheon Corp.
Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, Md., ranks No. 1 as well on Washington Technology’s 2011 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.
– by Washington Technology staff, Sept. 26, 2011, at http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/09/26/agg-aviation-week-survey.aspx?s=wtdaily_270911