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GOP lawmakers demand SBA postpone IT upgrades amid year-end contract spending surge

Lawmakers say taking SBA’s certification portal offline in the final months of fiscal 2024 would cause problems for firms with year-end contracting deadlines.

Contracting

Small Business Administration (SBA) building

GOP lawmakers pan SBA return-to-office plans as ‘extremely minimal’

Federal Report

Concerns over NASA’s SEWP VI small business strategy come to surface

Congress

Better data, analysis gives SBA new optimism to recoup smaller COVID loans

Big Data

The misguided attacks on the 8(a) program must end

Commentary

POGO

How multi-billion dollar defense contractors netted small business set-asides

Defense Industry

GAO claims SBA obstructing oversight into COVID-19 relief loans as IG accelerates investigations

Agency Oversight

New legislation looks to revitalize lagging SBA HUBZone program, underdeveloped communities

Congress

Agencies could better protect whistleblowers working for contractors

Federal Newscast

Lawmakers berate SBA for trying to ‘usurp authority’ in HUBZone program

Congress

Growing confusion over category management sparks Hill interest

Reporter's Notebook

USPS, VA shuffle chairs of IT executives

Kristin Seaver steps in to the CIO and executive vice president roles after spending the last two-plus years working as the vice president of area operations…

Reporter's Notebook

Agencies end 20 years of contracting failures

The Small Business Administration is reporting that agencies surpassed the 5 percent governmentwide goal of awarding contracts to women-owned small businesses…

Contracts/Awards

Small business, hazing top NDAA wishlist for lawmakers

Defense

Lawmakers pushed for provisions of the Defending American’s Small Contractors bill to be folded into the 2017 NDAA.