Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting (2005) / Chapter Skim
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3 The Federal Small Business Contracting Process
3 The Federal Small Business Contracting Process
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It then reviews the steps in the procurement process in a major agency, types of preferential contracting mechanisms, and data on contracting outcomes.
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Both business supply-side and government demand-side barriers may impair market efficiency, leading to aggregate disparities and disparities among industries in the share of women-owned businesses receiving federal contracts. An example of a business supply-side barrier would be if women entrepreneurs experienced greater difficulties in obtaining sources of startup and working capital compared with other businesses, so that fewer women-owned small businesses were large enough to be credible bidders on federal contracts.
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There are contracting officers located all over the United States and around the world. The DoD Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Office has over 800 small business specialists distributed among contracting offices to help maximize opportunities for small businesses.
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prime or Interior the Labor, Homeland Administration million; Procurement thousand Federal Agriculture Defense Energy Health Homeland the Justice State Transportation Veterans for government-wide of federal and Agency, of of of of of of of of of of 11.3 190 by 3-1 Billion agencies) Services Aeronautics to goals Federal Total $2 percent (all exclude 5 Department SF-281 TABLE with Total Department Department Department Department Department Department Department Department Department Department General National Administration Target NOTE: amounted they were Development, the SOURCE: and
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FedBizOpps is an electronic point of entry for all federal contracting opportunities of more than $25,000 -- vendors can search for solicitations posted by contracting agencies, and agencies can search for vendors that register to receive information about particular types of procurements or specific solicitations.2 GSA schedules list preapproved vendors for supply 2 As of January 1, 2002, FedBizOpps replaced the Commerce Business Daily as the vehicle for publishing notices of all federal procurements of more than $25,000.
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The small business specialist on the acquisition team may also use a variety of informal methods to gather information about potential small business suppliers. These informal methods include going to conferences, saving business cards collected at business events, following up marketing contacts initiated by small businesses, and attending meetings held for small business specialists.
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For example, it may be unrestricted by size of business, it may have a 10 percent small disadvantaged business price evaluation or bid-credit (explained below) , or it may take another form.
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Many restricted competitions are conducted using set-asides, in which particular procurement opportunities are set aside to be bid on only by selected classes of small businesses. Another concept that has been used at some agencies is a price evaluation adjustment (PEA,)
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Federal agencies have successfully used bid-credits, for example, in allocating the telecommunications spectrum. LIMITED DATA ON OUTCOMES Our brief review of the federal small business contracting process in the Department of Defense made clear the considerable latitude that is afforded acquisition teams and small business specialists in determining acquisition and information-gathering strategies.
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and credit card purchases are excluded from the ICAR database, although some FPDS reports provide aggregate SF-281 data, and there is a standard report for aggregate credit card purchases. In addition, a few agencies are not required to report any contracting actions to GSA; they include Congress, the GAO, the federal courts, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency (see Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc., 2004b:3-4)
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Thus, some tables include information for contracts reported on SF-279 from the ICAR database, while others aggregate information for contracts reported on SF-279 and SF-281. In addition, tables for small business "goaling achievements," showing percentages of total actions and dollars awarded by type of small business, exclude some contract actions that are reported in other tables on small businesses (see Table 3-2 for an illustration of consistency problems in the standard reported data for small businesses)
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6,083,267 52.8 Total businesses Report on Annual Procurement Preference Goaling Achievements 11,330,377 100.0 Total federal snapshot (aggregating SF-279 and SF-281 actions) 11,520,433 100.0 Thousands Percentage Dollar amount of contract awards of dollars of Total Women-owned small businesses Report on Annual Procurement Preference Goaling Achievements 8,227,298 3.0 Total federal snapshot (aggregating SF-279 and SF-281 actions)
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