About $2 billion in federal contracts were miscoded as going to small rather than large businesses in fiscal 2002, resulting in distorted procurement statistics, according to a new SBA report.
Contracts set aside for businesses owned by service-disabled veterans will pull in nearly $2.8 billion in spending by fiscal 2009, according to a report issued this month by market research firm Input Inc.
The Small Business Association is now requiring businesses to self-certify that they are still a small business when they acquire companies with set aside contracts.
I bet terms such as claims entry, system takeover, MMIS, fiscal agent or entitlements mean nothing to you. But multiyear contracts, recurring revenue, mega deals, ongoing operations, and guaranteed federally financed budgets ? now, there is language everyone understands.
Three affiliated companies merged today to form a new entity specializing in information technology services and solutions for the federal marketplace. Arlington, Va.-based Centurum Inc. brings together Techplan Corp., TDS Inc. and Klein & Stump Inc.
Despite no change in strong business trends among the federal IT service companies over the past few quarters, investors have been driving stocks higher in the past couple of months.
Federal IT contractors are overwhelmingly supporting President Bush and other Republican candidates with their campaign contributions. That's the most obvious conclusion from our exclusive pre-election report, "The Money Trail." Analyzing data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Washington Technology tracks where the Top 100 federal IT contractors are putting their political capital.
Federal, state and local governments often have discrete GIS groups working on task-specific GIS initiatives. But as geospatial data becomes increasingly important to all types of agencies, integrators are called on to marry disparate GIS projects and build applications that take advantage of unified geospatial information.
A procurement rule went into effect Sept. 17 permitting 5 percent incentive payments to contractors and subcontractors that use Native American, Native Alaskan and Native Hawaiian small businesses as subcontractors on Defense Department work worth more than $500,000.
The Small Business Administration this month launched an online application for 8(a) Business Development and Small Disadvantaged Business certification. The new automated application replaces a four-page paper form.
<font color="cc0000"> (UPDATED) </font color>Fifty-one small businesses won spots on the Commerce Information Technology Services Next Generation, a small-business acquisition contract for information technology.
Service-disabled veterans recently got what many women want: a new procurement regulation that allows contracting officers to set aside federal contracts specifically for their small businesses.
Cairo Corp. of Chantilly, Va., has grown nearly 200 percent annually during the past five years and now tops Washington Technology's annual list of the 50 fastest-growing federal IT contractors. Owner and president Alba Alemán said she doesn't want any special treatment from the government because of her gender.
At No. 39 on <I>Washington Technology</I>'s Fast 50, Artel Inc. is about in the middle of the bottom half of the rankings, but that's not such a bad thing. Artel, a Reston, Va., provider of IT, information assurance and telecommunications services, debuts on the rankings with a blistering 61.6 percent compound annual growth rate over the last five years. The company's growth also landed it at No. 97 on the <I>Washington Technology</I> 2004 Top 100 list, which ranks prime government contractors. Such is the potential of the companies found on this year's ranking lists.
