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Ken Dodds: Breaking down SBA’s new mentor-protégé rules

For years, the mentor-protégé program at the Small Business Administration paired large, established businesses with small, disadvantaged companies to improve...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

August 19, 2016 11:42 am

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Ken Dodds, director of planning, government contracting office, SBA

For years, the mentor-protégé program at the Small Business Administration paired large, established businesses with small, disadvantaged companies to improve the little guys' chances of winning federal contracts. Now the SBA has finalized a major revision to the mentor-protégé rules. Ken Dodds, director of planning and liaison in the government contracting office at SBA, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what the changes mean.

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