Government Contracts Transforms Small, Family-Owned Biz into Wealth-Making Machine Question: How do you take a small, family-owned landscaping company and grow into a Multi-Million Dollar, Multi-Generational, Wealth-Creating Business? Answer: Governm…
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With daily reports of indictments and guilty pleas of individuals and companies that have improperly obtained federal government contracts that were set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs”), giving the VA’s…
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Zachary Construction Corporation (“Zachary”) won a public construction contract to build a wharf for the Port of Houston Authority of Harris County, Texas (the “Port”). The contract gave Zachary sole control of the manner in w…
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Instead of making a contract award to a company that is planning on subcontracting out more than 70% of the work, the Government is going to require its Contracting Officers to stop and see if there’s a better way to do business. Outstanding! On Ju…
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In May, the Small Business Administration issued an interim final rule amending its regulations to implement changes to the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program as a result of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA 201…
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In early March, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a new step to the speed up eligibility determinations of veteran-owned small business (VOSB) under the VA’s “Veterans First” contract program. As the VA announcement noted,…
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued the results of its performance audit of the U.S. Department of Defense’s implementation of a new requirement for written justifications of sole-source contracts over twenty million dollars…
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The Department of Defense, General Services Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have issued a file rule adopting, without changes, an interim rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that prohibits the…
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board have published proposed rules to clarify CAS exemptions for contracts or subcontracts related to the acquisition of commerci…
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