Our annual small-business special report is one of my favorite issues of the year, mostly for personal reasons: It makes me think of my parents, who were themselves small-business owners.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas won a $45 million, eight-year contract from the Ohio Job and Family Services Department for electronic benefits transfer services.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas won a $45 million, eight-year contract from the Ohio Job and Family Services Department for electronic benefits transfer services.
Valerie Perlowitz, along with other prospective bidders, was in the audience for the Homeland Security Department's industry day for its $45 billion Eagle IT procurement. It was then that she learned that past performance would be weighed for prime contractors only -- not for subcontracting partners or teams -- when making awards.
Alaska Native Corporations and tribally owned companies increase their presence on the Top 25 8(a) list, with 10 such companies ranking among the most successful small businesses in the government market.
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) believes recent changes at the Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance may have left it unable to process the onslaught of loan applications expected from Katrina-affected businesses.
Systems integrators should gear up for a busy 2006 as the federal government makes plans for major contracts from the Defense, Justice, Homeland Security and Veteran Affairs departments, as well as the General Services Administration
Small businesses reaped a record $69.2 billion in federal prime contracts in fiscal 2004, up nearly 6 percent from the previous high, according to the Small Business Administration.
In late June, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a lower-court decision dismissing a case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense Department's price evaluation adjustment program for small disadvantaged businesses (SDB).
Industry group complains that prime contractors will be much less likely to use subs if a pricing amendment sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is approved as part of the Defense authorization legislation.
The Commerce Department agency will seek IT services for help desk, seat management, Web programming and development, network operations center, e-mail operations and other services supporting the IT infrastructure.
CSSI Inc. and Evolve Inc. will work together to develop an air traffic control simulation program to be used to train Navy and Marine Corps air traffic controllers.
Sabre Systems Inc. won an eight-and-a-half-year, $60 million-plus task order from the Census Bureau to provide IT services to modernize and expand the agency's geographical data processing system.
Six large and four small businesses have won spots on a $1.9 billion defense contract to provide design, engineering and technical support services to the Air Force Materiel Command.
Two companies claiming the General Services Administration unfairly evaluated their bids for the right to upgrade FedBizOpps.gov could be facing an uphill battle, according to a procurement expert.
ChoicePoint Government Services won a contract worth up to $20 million from the Internal Revenue Service to serve as the public records provider for batch processing projects.
