The small but vocal American Small Business League this week continued its long-standing challenge to the Small Business Administration’s claims that agencies are meeting their statutory goals in awarding contracts to qualified small businesses.
In an appeal filed in the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco, the group’s attorney’s challenged a May ruling in the case naming SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet and seeking “injunctive and other appropriate relief” to prevent the SBA from “continuing to misrepresent the attainment of small business contracting goals to Congress and the American public.”
The league has long charged that definitions used by the SBA have allowed many large Fortune 500 companies through subsidiaries to win contracts intended as set-asides for qualified small firms.
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