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New reports reveal top federal contracts and small business set-asides

November 6, 2013 By ei2admin

At the beginning of each federal fiscal year, Deltek, Inc. identifies and assesses the top federal contract opportunities for the coming year as well as the top contracts slated to be set-aside for small businesses.  Deltek is an enterprise software and information solutions provider for professional services firms, government contractors, and government agencies.

Deltek’s latest analysis reveals 20 high profile procurements with the following characteristics:

  • Defense Department contracts account for 73% of the total dollar value of the top 20 contracts.
  • New opportunities (six new programs) account for 19% of total contract value.
  • Professional Services contracts make-up $73.2 billion in contract value, but IT opportunities are larger, on average.

In addition, Deltek’s FY14 Top 10 Set-Aside Opportunities list exceeds $6.9 billion in total ceiling value available as prime contracting opportunities for small businesses.  Findings include:

  • Defense opportunities dominate the set-aside list with 71% of the total contract value, with Navy contract value the highest at $3.5 billion.
  • Contracts for professional services are the focus of almost half of the top FY 2014 set-asides, followed by IT, architecture, engineering and construction.

Download the complete reports by clicking on the following links:

Top 20 Federal Opportunities for FY 2014

Top 10 Federal Set-Aside Opportunities for FY 2014

Also, see this related report from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/deltek-new-small-business-contracts-expected-in-early-2014/2013/10/18/5e7986b4-3285-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story.html

 

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: contracting opportunities, DoD, federal contracting, federal contracts, opportunities, set-aside

Here are the Georgia firms who won federal contracts in October 2013

November 4, 2013 By ei2admin

Ever wonder who’s winning federal contracts in Georgia?

Wouldn’t this information be helpful if you are looking for subcontracting prospects?  Or when you’re trying to figure out who your competitors are?

Each month, the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center (GTPAC) publishes a list of federal contracts awarded to Georgia businesses.  The list comes complete with point-of-contact information on the awardees, the name of the awarding agency, the dollar value of the contract, and much more.

Download the award winners for October 2013 right here: FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – OCT. 2013

Copies of earlier reports are listed below:

  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA -SEPT. 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – AUGUST 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – JULY 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – June 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – MAY 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – APR. 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – March 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – FEB. 2013

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: contract awards, federal contracts, Georgia, subcontracting, teaming

Here are the Georgia firms who won federal contracts in September 2013

October 2, 2013 By ei2admin

Ever wonder who’s winning federal contracts in Georgia?

Wouldn’t this information be helpful if you are looking for subcontracting prospects?  Or when you’re trying to figure out who your competitors are?

Each month, the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center (GTPAC) publishes a list of federal contracts awarded to Georgia businesses.  The list comes complete with point-of-contact information on the awardees, the name of the awarding agency, the dollar value of the contract, and much more.

Download the award winners for September 2013 right here: FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA -SEPT. 2013

Copies of earlier reports are listed below:

  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – AUGUST 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – JULY 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – June 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – MAY 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – APR. 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – March 2013
  • FEDERAL CONTRACT AWARDS IN GEORGIA – FEB. 2013

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: contract awards, federal contracts, Georgia, subcontracting, teaming

Federal rule mandates small business updates, imposes monetary penalties

September 24, 2013 By ei2admin

Small businesses need to pay closer attention than ever to their “small business size status.”

New rules from the Small Business Administration (SBA), recently published in the Federal Register, require that small businesses:

  1. Accurately maintain their size status with the federal government, and
  2. Face substantial financial penalties, if willful misrepresentation of size or socioeconomic status is proven.

What actions are expected to be taken by small businesses?

First and foremost, it’s imperative that every small business update its profile in the System for Award Management (SAM) at least once a year.  A small business failing to perform annual updating will no longer be identified in the SAM database as a small business.  Lack of updating also will cause a firm’s other socioeconomic designations (such as SDB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, EDWOSB, VOSB and SDVOSB) to be dropped from SAM.   Losing these designations in SAM potentially means losing eligibility for federal contracts set-aside for various small business classifications.  Firms not identified as small businesses also will not likely be considered as potential subcontractors by prime contractors who are required to meet small business subcontracting goals.

The possible penalty for a business misrepresenting itself as a small business has never been as severe as now.  If the SBA finds that a business “willfully misrepresented” itself as a small business in order to win a federal contract, the agency can cancel the contract and impose a penalty equal to the total dollar value of the contract.  Previously, when a contractor misrepresented its size or small business status, the contractor had to forfeit its contract and pay back profits associated with the contract.

The bottom line is this.  Businesses should make sure they update SAM at least annually.  In addition, businesses should expect to see a new certification form in bid and proposal solicitations, requiring each small business to certify its status as a small business along with any other socioeconomic classification the firm may hold.  The form must be signed by an authorized official.  If a federal solicitation does not contain a certification section, offerors (bidders and proponents) are expected to prepare a signed certification of their own to be included in their offer.

 

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: 8(a), certification, EDWOSB, federal contracts, federal regulations, fraud, HUBZone, misrepresentation, penalty, SAM, SBA, SDB, SDVOSB, small business, small disadvantaged business, socioeconomic status, veteran owned business, VOSB, woman owned business, wosb

Contractors brace for possible government shutdown

September 24, 2013 By ei2admin

The threat of a federal government shutdown is even more bad news for a  defense industry struggling to weather sequestration.

Following a summer of Pentagon furloughs and with other sequestration cuts  starting to sink in, the government — caught between a gridlocked Congress and a  dug-in White House — is marching to the brink of a complete halt, which industry  sources say could do irreparable damage to defense firms.

“A shutdown means that there’s no additional funding that is  made available for contracts,” said Elizabeth Ferrell, a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge who’s worked in government contracts law for more than 30 years.  “So with very limited exceptions, there are no new contract awards, no  additional funding obligated to existing contracts, contractors are faced with  performing when there are no government people around, government people will be  furloughed.”

Defense contractors would have to work in a vacuum, she said, when normally  they rely on give-and-take with government employees. “The government will cease  to function, except for a very limited number of essential people,” she  predicted.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/defense-firms-brace-for-hard-hit-of-a-shutdown-97179.html.

 

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: budget cuts, continuing resolution, defense contractors, federal contracts, furloughs, government shutdown, prime contractors, sequestration

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