Industry Chatter: Darryl Hairston & Lourdes Martin-Rosa

The Small Business Administration is working with agencies across government to boost small business contracting numbers. One of the ways they're doing it is the 8a...

The Small Business Administration is working with agencies across government to boost small business contracting numbers. One of the ways they’re doing it is the 8a program. On Industry Chatter, Darryl Hairston, associate administrator for the 8(a) Business Development program at SBA and Lourdes Martin-Rosa, chief executive officer of GovBiz Solutions, discuss where the program is today and where it’s going.

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