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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11245.
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Appendix A
Workshop Agenda and Participants

AGENDA

Friday, April 30, 2004

Public Session

9:00 a.m.

Introductions/Review of Agenda and Charge: Arleen Leibowitz

9:15

Background from the SBA: Eric Benderson, Associate General Counsel for Litigation, SBA

10:00

SBA current methodology: Andy White

10:30

Panel questions and discussion: Arleen Leibowitz

11:00

Government set-asides in other areas: R. Preston McAfee, Professor of Business Economics and Management, California Institute of Technology

11:30

What case law says about discrimination/underrepresentation: Robert Goldstein, Professor of Law, ULCA Law School

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11245.
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1:30

The small business contracting process: Linda Oliver, Deputy Director, Peg Meehan, Assistant Director, and Sharon Drago, Assistant Director (via phone), Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

2:30

Review of statistics issues in discrimination: John Rolph, Chair, Committee on National Statistics

3:00

Panel questions and discussion of potential analytic methodology: Arleen Leibowitz

5:30

Adjournment

PARTICIPANTS

Eric Benderson, U.S. Small Business Administration

William T. Bielby, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sharon Drago, Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

Robert Goldstein, University of California, Los Angeles

Arleen Leibowitz, University of California, Los Angeles

Jonathan S. Leonard, University of California, Berkeley

R. Preston McAfee, California Institute of Technology

Peg Meehan, Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

Linda Oliver, Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

John E. Rolph, University of Southern California

Patricia A. Roos, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Michael Siri, National Research Council

J.H. (Rip) Verkerke, University of Virginia

Andrew White, National Research Council

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2005. Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11245.
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It has been clear for at least 50 years the disadvantages that small businesses face in competing for U.S. government contracts. The Small Business Act of 1953 created the Small Business Administration (SBA), an independent agency in the executive branch that counsels and assists specific types of small businesses including firms owned by minorities and other socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and firms owned by women. Women-owned small businesses, however, are underrepresented or substantially underrepresented in some industries.

In 2002, the SBA Office of Federal Contract Assistance for Women Business Owners (CAWBO) organized a draft study containing a preliminary set of approximations of the representation of women-owned small businesses in federal prime contracts over $25,000 by industry. Because of the past legal challenges to race- and gender-conscious contracting programs at the federal and local levels, the SBA asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to conduct an independent review of relevant data and estimation methods prior to finalizing the CAWBO study.

The Steering Committee on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting was created and charged with holding a workshop to discuss topics including the accuracy of data and methods to estimate the use of women-owned small businesses in federal contracting and the definition of "underrepresentation" and "substantial underrepresentation" in designating industries for which preferential contracting programs might be warranted. Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting presents the committee's report as well as the recommendations that committees have made.

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