HUBZone

With one in four dollars spent in federal contracts now going to small businesses, SBA is looking to give more teeth to the verification process for companies that claim to meet the criteria.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Willkie said he is not concerned his agency will be impacted by President Donald Trump’s request that agencies trim their budgets by 5 percent in 2020.

The federal government remains on a hot streak in meeting its small business contracting goals.

Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a wide-ranging discussion of the top contracting issues including Smart Pay micro-purchase limits, new GAO rules for bid protests, and HubZone ownership rule changes. April 16, 2018

Vendors are saying that a new bill would go far toward addressing some of the biggest failings of SBA’s HUBZone program.

Now a new map from SBA and the U.S. Digital Service makes it easier to determine if a particular address qualifies as a HUBZone.

The House Small Business Committee had a number of bones to pick with the Small Business Association’s HUBZone program, including the agency’s decision to ignore a certain provision in the program’s requirements.

On this edition of Columbia Technology Partners Ready To Prime, Allen Scott sits down with the Regional Director Natalia Olson-Urtecho and District Director Antonio Doss of the Small Business Administration.

The federal government awarded 24.99 percent of its prime contract dollars to small firms during fiscal 2014, the largest percentage on record. But Congressional overseers called the administration’s statistics misleading since they do not account for tens of billions of dollars in federal spending.