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SBA Update

SBA Update. DoD Western Regional Council for Small Business Membership Meeting San Diego, CA May 12, 2010. SBA Government Contracting Goals.

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SBA Update

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  1. SBA Update DoD Western Regional Council for Small Business Membership Meeting San Diego, CA May 12, 2010

  2. SBA Government Contracting Goals • Ensure that small businesses get long-lasting development opportunities and their fair share of government contracts by meeting or exceeding all government small business procurement goals • Eliminate fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in all programs that Government Contracting executes and oversees • Invest in people, technology, and performance management throughout Government Contracting

  3. Meeting Government Contracting Goals • Re-designed the Agency Scorecard • New metrics • ABCDF Grades • Wider distribution of final grades • Every program and all processes are being examined to minimize opportunities for waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement • Training for employees, new computer systems and software

  4. Presidential Memo to Heads of Executive Departments & Agencies • Establishes an Interagency Task Force on Federal Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses (4/26/10) • Meet 23 % goal and “where small businesses have the capacity to do more, we should strive to exceed the statutory goals. While Chief Acquisition Officers and Senior Procurement Executives have many priorities, small business contracting should always be a high priority in the procurement process.”

  5. Presidential Memo to Heads of Executive Departments & Agencies • Establishes an Interagency Task Force on federal Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses • Task Force Co-Chairs: Secretary of Commerce, Director of OMB and SBA Administrator • Members: 18 Department and Agency heads, Chair of the Council on Economic Advisors and whomever else the President may designate • Report to the President in 120 days (8/24/10)

  6. Presidential Memo to Heads of Executive Departments & Agencies • Increase opportunities for small business contractors by utilizing innovative strategies such as teaming and mentor-protégé programs • Removing barriers to SB participation in the Federal marketplace by unbundling contracts, improving training to Federal acquisition officials and utilizing new technologies • Expanding outreach strategies especially to WOSBs, SDBS, HUBzone Businesses and SDVOBs

  7. Presidential Memo to Heads of Executive Departments & Agencies • Website - Establish a website within 90 days that illustrates the participation of small businesses in Federal contracting • Designed to encourage improved collection, verification, and availability of Federal procurement data and provide accurate data on the Federal Government’s progress in ensuring that all small businesses have a fair chance to participate in Federal contracting opportunities. • Outreach – Solicit input from small businesses and small business associations

  8. Presidential Memo to Heads of Executive Departments & Agencies • SBA Administrator Mills very serious about her part in the Task Force • Soliciting ideas • GC Conference - Working Session between OSDBU Directors, PCRs and CMRs to come up with recommendations for Prime and Subcontracting

  9. SBA and Google Launch “Tools for Online Success” • Online resources and training to help small business owners harness technology to grow their businesses • http://www.google.com/help/sba • Tutorials, video testimonials, and tips from savvy small business owners who have leveraged the web to become more efficient, cost effective, and successful

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