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News
Small Business
Administration
Small Business
Size Standards: Waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule ―
Small Business
Administration
Notice of the next
meeting of the National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board.
(PDF Version)
(April 28, 2008)
Intent to Waive the
Nonmanufacturer Rule for Paper Products Manufacturing. (PDF
Version)
(April 8, 2008)
Intent to Waive the
Nonmanufacturer Rule for Safety Zone Rubber Gloves Manufacturing.
(PDF
Version)
(April 8, 2008)
Intent to Waive the
Nonmanufacturer Rule for Trash Bags Manufacturing. (PDF
Version)
(April 8, 2008)
Small Business
Administration
Small Business Size Standards: Nonmanufacturer Rule Waiver. (PDF
Version) (March 21, 2008)
Small Business Size
Standards; Adoption of Size Standards by 2007 North American Industry
Classification System for Size Standards. (PDF
Version)
(March 11, 2008)
House Committee on
Small Business
Documents and statements from a hearing:
Are New Procurement Methods Beneficial to Small Business Contractors?
(March 7, 2008)
Small Business
Administration
Small Business Size Standards; Waiver of Nonmanufacturer Rule. (PDF
Version) (March 6, 2008)
House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure
On March 6, 2007, a subcommittee will
hold a hearing:
Doing Business with Government, The Record and Goals for Small, Minority,
and Disadvantaged Businesses.
(March 4, 2008)
Small Business Administration
Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Assistance Procedures.
(PDF
Version) (February 28, 2008)
House Committee on Small Business
Committee rejects White House's proposed budget for SBA.
See
Committee's letter to the House Committee on the Budget. (pdf) (February 28, 2008)
House Committee on Small Business
On February 26, 2008, a Subcommittee will hold a
hearing entitled:
Plain Language in Paperwork — The Benefits to
Small Business. (February 25, 2008)
Senate Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship
Documents and
statements from a hearing:
Rebuilding the Gulf Coast:
Small Business Recovery in South Louisiana. (February 22, 2008)
Small Business Administration
The Office
of Advocacy comments on the Administration's proposed rules for Women-Owned
Small Business Federal Contracting Assistance Procedures.
(February 22, 2008)
Department of Defense
Suspension of Price Evaluation Adjustment for Small Disadvantaged Businesses.
(PDF
Version) (February 20, 2008)
Senate Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship
Committee press
release on signing of Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business
Reauthorization and Opportunity Act. (February 18,
2008)
Small Business Administration
Partnership signed with Minority Business Round Table. (pdf) (February 15,
2008)
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Hearings
House Committee
on Small Business
Statements on an April 16, 2008, subcommittee
hearing entitled:
Contracting and
Technology Hearing on Ensuring Small Businesses Have Fair Access to
Federal
Contracts. (April 17, 2008)
Legislation
Status of S. 2920,
The SBA Reauthorization and
Improvement Act of 2008. (May 5, 2008)
Status of
S. 2902,
The
Independent Office of
Advocacy and Small Business Regulatory Reform Act of 2008.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of
H. R. 5789,
The
Science and Technology
Innovation Act of 2008.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 5819,
The SBIR/STTR
Reauthorization Act.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 5672, The
Women's Business Ownership
Act of 2008, to establish the Commission on Women's Business
Ownership.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 5525,
The Inclusion of Veteran
Service Organizations in the National Veterans Business
Development Corporation Board Act.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of S. 2608, The
Small
Business Women's Procurement Program Improvement Act.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 5037,
the
Legislative Branch Recognizes the
Value of Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Act of 2008.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of
H. R. 4253,
Military Reservist and Veteran
Small Business Reauthorization and Opportunity Act of 2008. (May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 3867,
the Small Business Contracting
Program Improvements Act.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 4212,
to authorize the Administrator of
the Small Business Administration to deem certain small business
concerns qualified HUBZone small business concerns.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 4213,
to amend the Small Business Act
to provide for an increase in the amount of awards under the first and
second phases of the Small Business Innovation Research program.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of H. R. 1873, the Small
Business Fairness in Contracting Act. (May
5, 2008)
Status of
S. 2176,
Native American Small Business
Development Act of 2007.
(May
5, 2008)
Status of S. 2300,
Small Business Contracting
Revitalization Act of 2007.
(May
5, 2008)
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Events
The National Defense
Industrial Association presents its
5th Annual National Small Business Conference. San Diego,
California, May 19 - 21, 2008.
2008 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference. Tampa,
Florida, May 20-22, 2008.
9th Annual U. S.
Department of Energy Small Business Conference, Expo, & Matchmaking
Forum, June 24 - 26, 2008.
The 4th Annual
National Veteran Small Business Conference & Expo. Las Vegas,
Nevada, July 7 - 10, 2008.
10th Annual NIH
SBIR/STTR Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, July 22 - 23, 2008.
Elite SDVOB National
Convention of Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses.
Annapolis, Maryland, August 20 - 22, 2008.
Association
of Small Business Development Centers 28th Annual Conference.
Chicago, Illinois, September 2 - 5, 2008.
National
Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week Conference.
Washington, D. C., September 3 - 5, 2008.
2008 National
Minority Supplier Development Council Conference and Business Opportunity Fair.
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Help from the Small
Business Administration
The fundamental purposes of the Small Business
Administration (SBA) are to
aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business;
ensure that small business concerns receive a fair portion of Government
purchases, contracts, and subcontracts, as well as of the sales of
Government property; make loans to small business concerns, State and
local development companies, and the victims of floods or other
catastrophes, or of certain types of economic injury; and license,
regulate, and make loans to small business investment companies.
SBA was created by the Small
Business Act of 1953 and derives its present existence and authority
from the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) and the Small
Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 661).
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Help From Federal Agencies In 1978,
Public Law 95-507 required the creation of Offices of Small and
Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) within federal agencies
that have procurement authority to deal
with small and disadvantaged business contracting issues. These offices and
their employees advocate small,
women-owned, and disadvantaged businesses.
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Help From
Non-Government Offices
Defense legislation and the Small
Business Act authorize activities and/or organizations that are
partially funded by federal, state, local government, corporate, and
other sources. These activities are designed to help small
businesses in contracting or business development.
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Small Business
Innovation Research and Technology
Transfer Programs
The Small
Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and Small Business
Technology Transfer Program (STTR) were created by federal
law encoded at
15
U.S.C. 638. The
purpose of the program is to enable small business concerns to undertake
and to obtain the benefits of research and development in order to
maintain and strengthen the competitive free enterprise system and the
national economy.
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