Category Archives: Financial

Direct your clients to GSA’s MAS Roadmap GSA’s website is full of information about the contract award process, but interviews with vendors tell us many find the Federal Acquisition Service’s (FAS) pages jargon-heavy and hard to navigate, with information not … Read More →

By Nimasheena N. Burns, Director Communications and Project Management, NC Department of Military and Veterans Affairs The North Carolina Defense Industry Diversification Initiative (NC DIDI) is excited to announce the launch of the initiatives mapping survey for the state’s defense … Read More →

Public comments sought regarding regulations to repeal, replace, or modify On August 15, 2017, the US Small Business Administration (SBA) released a request for information (“RFI”) www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-08-15/pdf/2017-17176.pdf seeking input from the public as to which SBA regulations should be repealed, … Read More →

Release Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 Contact: Tiffani S. Clements (202) 401-0035 Internet Address: http://www.sba.gov/news Three Federal Agencies Receive A+ Rating on Procurement Scorecard WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration today released its annual Small Business Procurement Scorecards, which provide … Read More →

By David L. Hayden, Of Counsel at Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLPEffective December 31, 2015, contracting officers can make sole source awards to Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSBs) and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Businesses (EDWOSBs). See FAR 19.1506.

There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the WOSB program this year, as the SBA has worked to implement changes set forth in the 2015 National Defense Authorization act. This buzz has left a lot of WOSBs and EDWOSBs wondering what changes would be coming, and how they would affect their business. Read More →