Return to Article: GSA boasts improvements in small business contracting
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Until the Federal government and in particular the Small Business Administration begins to examine the REAL numbers, will small businesses receive real opportunity. Take for example, the selection of small businesses as subcontractors. A large business is not required to select or contract with a small business unitl AFTER SELECTION. At that time, they do a Subcontracting Plan, and pick any small business they like. Guess what? The same old firms get picked, and why not. Go with who you know. There is no mechanism to spread the work around.The same credit is received. Examine the statistics. Hundreds of small firms have disappeared or lost interest in the Federal market, and you can't blame them. The millions of dollars spent on networking conferences by varous agencies is a waste when you examine the stats and ROI. When discussing this with vaious agencies, it invariably comes back to the SBA who has the ball, and some slippery fingers.
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GSA should be complemented for their good efforts. However, it is very surprising that GSA and OMB still have not found a way to determine what amount of the government's billions and billions of dollars of credit card purchases are made by the government to small, disadvantaged and women-owned businesses. This is truly an issue that everyone seems to avoid while billions and billions of dollars are going to large businesses and the government has not been able to determine how much. If the IRS can use statistical sampling to have a 95% plus accuracy rate, why doesn't the GSA and OMB use the same techniques to determine what amount of the government's credit card purchases are made with small businesses. Could it be, that if they had accurate numbers, everyone would see that the numbers for small businesses are not what they should be!
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