As recently as last week, the SBA suspended taking applications for the government's Small Disadvantaged Business contracting program.
Yesterday, the General Services Administration GSAA) issued a press release stating that the agency had exceeded all of its small business contracting goals, with the exception of the congressionally mandated 3percentt goal for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses.
The SBA is facing mounting pressure to release the 2007 small business contracting statistics.
The work is green infrastructure that creates small business contracting and employment opportunities.
And this isn't the first time he's abolished federal small business contracting programs.
One area of abuse has been government small business contracting programs.
In the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, congressional leaders are considering S. 2300, the Small Business Contracting Revitalization Act, as a potential solution to longstanding abuses in federal small business contracting programs.
This year marks the seventh consecutive year that large companies have been included in the government's small business contracting statistics.
Since 2002, ASBL President Lloyd Chapman and the ASBL have been the primary advocates of federal small business contracting reform.
Please click here to watch our response to the Obama administration's small business contracting statistics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2QEY5Wxlo.
