Tim Sullivan, Partner, Thompson Coburn LLP

Government contracting can be a very useful tool for enhancing social and economic changes that Congress deems worthy. Contracting veteran Tim Sullivan has authored...

Government contracting can be a very useful tool for enhancing social and economic changes that Congress deems worthy. Contracting veteran Tim Sullivan has authored the blog, “10 Myths of Government Contracting.” Sullivan has been exploring these myths on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Today Sullivan tackles the penultimate myth — number 9: Only the big guys succeed. That myth seems easy to debunk given the amount of small business contracting the federal government does … but not everyone reads past the headline of the big awards.

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