Like many small-business owners, Howard Melamed, CEO of CellAntenna Corp., wants to get on the General Services Administration schedule. The problem for the cellular antenna and repeaters developer is that being innovative means taking on the FCC and the Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department is in the process of announcing the winners of contracts in the small-business phase of the Eagle IT services procurement, sources inside and outside the government said.
Systems Made Simple Inc. of Syracuse, N.Y., has been awarded a $3.7 million contract from the Veterans Affairs Department to assist the VA in upgrading all department computers with enhanced data security encryption systems to protect sensitive data on veterans.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> The 20-year, multiple-award Field and Installation Readiness Support Team program to supply logistics support services to the Army and other Defense Department operations around the world now carries an estimated value of $36 billion.
The Office of Personnel Management is gauging the market for small businesses interested in providing computer center support for its Federal Investigative Services Division.
Losing out on small business set-aside contracts and plunging headlong into the mid-tier market is not necessarily an attractive proposition for some small businesses, industry analysts said.
After factoring in $12 billion in miscoding errors, said Democrats on the House Small Business Committee, just 21.6 percent of all federal prime contracts in fiscal 2005 went to small businesses. ? and more briefs
Large federal businesses preying on weaknesses in the Small Business Administration's contracting programs to win work intended for small companies could face more robust requirements intended to aid small businesses.
For the sixth year in a row, the federal government failed to meet its goal of awarding 23 percent of all federal prime contracts to small businesses, according to House Democrats.
A familiar regulation of the Small Business Administration allows a contractor that qualified as a small business at the time it won a contract to be considered small for the life of the contract. More than three years after SBA proposed to amend it, that regulation remains in force.
Assertions by the Small Business Administration's former adminstrator that the government surpassed its congressionally mandated goal of awarding 23 percent of federal prime contracts to small companies have come under sharp attack from congressional leaders, the SBA's inspector general and Government Accountability Office.
The Homeland Security Department anticipates announcing in July the winners of FirstSource, a $3 billion small-business IT contract to help the department integrate and standardize its IT systems and tools.
If RS Information Systems Inc.'s federal contracts were a remake of the movie "A Star Is Born," 1 Source Consulting Inc. would play the title role: the character who starts out in a supporting part but quickly is tapped to headline the show.
As the Veteran's Affairs Department undergoes a major process and systems transformation, the agency will buy up to $365 million worth of Microsoft software and services from MicroTech LLC.
The Small Business Administration is proposing to implement a new regulation aimed at providing more contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses.
Guident Technologies Inc. won a five-year, $4.9 million task order from the Energy Department's Los Alamos Laboratory to deliver service support for Oracle solutions.
