Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), ranking Democrat on the House Small Business Committee, announced her support for a lawsuit filed by women business owners to force the government to meet its goal of spending 5 percent of its contracting dollars with women-owned firms.
Pragmatics Inc. has been awarded a blanket purchasing agreement by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection agency for software testing services.
Leveraging relationships is part of EDS' approach to small business partnering, both for teaming and for its conventional subcontracting activities. EDS has also developed a small business staffing program that seeks to bring specialists into EDS contracts.
Access Systems Inc. has formed a small business joint venture with Diamond Data Systems and Ultimate Solutions Inc. to pursue a contract at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center.
Contracts are essential in business. But most people in business see contracts as documents containing language and terms that only a lawyer can interpret.
The Small Business Administration now is responsible for establishing the certification of small businesses as small disadvantaged, 8 (a) certified or HUBZone-certified.
Early this month, Lockheed Martin Information Technology's health care solutions unit invited 23 small companies ? all prospective subcontractors ? to an all-day briefing and interview session at the company's Center for Leadership Excellence in Bethesda, Md.
The Florida Department of Children and Families is seeking vendors to provide rapid application-development capabilities, data integration and Web-based applications for an alternate development environment. An RFP is expected in April.
The roster of players might be the same as last year's, but it isn't business as usual in the state and local government market. Many systems integrators, even those holding strong positions, are pushing into new lines of business as a way to enlarge their slice of the state and local pie.
Recently, the Small Business Administration issued a final rule to amend its small-business size regulations. Buried in this rule is a potentially confusing requirement for small businesses to provide updated size certifications following certain types of mergers or acquisitions.
The Federal Aviation Administration wants airport technology, research and development services, and technical and engineering support for its Airport Technology Research and Development Branch. The branch conducts research, tests and demonstrations related to runway support, planning and design, pavements, capacity enhancement, capacity and delay computer modeling, wildlife hazards, lighting and markings, and rescue and firefighting. The Technical Center is next to Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey.
