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Skeptical Senate chairman asks SBA for list of every contractor it counted as a small business

June 4, 2015 By ei2admin

A Senate chairman has asked the Small Business Administration to provide him with a list of every company that was counted toward the federal government’s small business contracting goal in 2014.

Last year, the SBA reported the government had met its goal of awarding small businesses 23 percent of all federal contracting dollars for the first time in eight years.

Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

“We’re expecting even better results when we release the 2014 scorecard in the coming weeks,” SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet said May 8, during a White House event honoring National Small Business Week award winners.

But a report by Public Citizen (see http://contractingacademy.gatech.edu/2015/05/12/advocacy-group-accuses-sba-of-misapplying-law-on-small-business-set-asides) questioned the accuracy of the SBA’s procurement report for 2013. It found that contracts awarded to giant federal contractors such as Lockheed Martin were counted as small businesses in the SBA’s numbers. This is just the latest example of flaws in the SBA’s contracting data though the years.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/2015/05/skeptical-senate-chairman-asks-sba-for-list-of.html

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: exclusions, goaling, overseas contracts, Public Citizen, SBA, Senate, small business, small business goals

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