Sentences with phrase «award small contracts»

Boenigk shared her experience over the last year with the changes that allow procurement officers to award small contracts directly to qualified companies, without competitive bidding.

Not exact matches

The Small Business Administration sets goals for the total percentage of federal contract funds that agencies should award to small business, which includes for disadvantaged and women - owned fSmall Business Administration sets goals for the total percentage of federal contract funds that agencies should award to small business, which includes for disadvantaged and women - owned fsmall business, which includes for disadvantaged and women - owned firms.

Both companies are among the corporate giants that have been awarded federal contracts specifically set aside for small businesses.

Kingdomware is a small, veteran - owned company based in Waldorf, Maryland, whose owner sued the Department of Veteran Affairs in 2012 for awarding a contract to a non-veteran-owned business.

The U.S. government awarded 22.25 percent of its contracts to small businesses in the 2012 fiscal year, which ended in September, according to a scorecard released by the U.S. Small Business Administration tsmall businesses in the 2012 fiscal year, which ended in September, according to a scorecard released by the U.S. Small Business Administration tSmall Business Administration today.

The Obama administration has awarded nearly $ 300 billion in federal - prime contracts to small businesses since 2009, and one - third of all federal - contracting dollars in the Recovery Act went to small businesses.

The opinion, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, strikes down a legislative provision, first enacted in 1986 and renewed numerous times since, which sets a goal that 5 percent of federal defense contracting dollars each fiscal year must be awarded to certain entities, including small disadvantaged companies.

One of the goals the law set: The government should aim to award 5 percent of its contracts for which small businesses are eligible to women - owned businesses.

These types of contracts are relatively small in scale, but they make up a big chunk of the no - bid contracts awarded in Puerto Rico.

The new Women - Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program will be fully implemented over the next several months, with the first contracts expected to be awarded by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011.

The district awards a single food service contract for its 600 schools, discouraging the kind of relatively small, nimble operation Boundas runs.

They highlight particularly the concern that if those awarding government contracts focus on cost rather than effectiveness then smaller providers (who may lack economies of scale but might offer advantages such as innovation or better quality relationships with service users) will lose out.

The director of Puerto Rico's power company resigned on Friday amid ongoing blackouts and scrutiny of a contract awarded to a small Montana - based company to help rebuild the electric grid destroyed by Hurricane Maria.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

At 10 a.m., NYC Council members Carlos Menchaca and Helen Rosenthal, advocates for worker cooperatives and workers express support for a City Council bill scheduled for a Thursday vote that would require reporting of city contracts and small business assistance awarded to worker cooperatives; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

Continuing the commitment to ensure 25 per cent of all government contracts are awarded to small and medium sized enterprises must be followed through.

Most MWBE firms are also small local businesses, so increasing contract awards to these companies helps the local economy.

A Cabinet Office press release states that Mr Maude will unveil a package of measures that will include online publication of # 50bn of potential business oppotunities; a 40 % increase in the speed of the procurement process; and, retraining of civil servants so that become more open to awarding contracts to smaller and medium - sized firms.

This, the sponsors argue, will shorten the time it takes for historically marginalized entrepreneurs to receive awards for small projects and grant more such owners access to contract dollars.

More than 20 years ago, Congress created a requirement that at least 5 percent of federal contracts would be awarded to women - owned small businesses, but as recently as last year only 4.3 percent were given to them.

The incident occurred moments before AECOM Tishman was awarded two small contracts totaling just over $ 8 million for planning and preconstruction work at the Jacob K. Javits Center to prepare it for a $ 1 billion - plus overhaul.

AHRQ, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. Chesley's office oversees much of AHRQ's external research awarded through grants and small - business contracts.

In 2013, the two were awarded a $ 1.5 million contract by the US Army to support their research using small - scale models of under - vehicle explosions.

Continuing a string of interesting characters, McConaughey was a police officer moonlighting as a contract killer who is hired to off the mother of a small - time drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in William Friedkin's darkly comedic thriller «Killer Joe» (2011), a role that earned him an Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor.

In fact, every year for the past 10 years, the Department has been awarded an A rating for reaching and exceeding its small business contracting goals and is on the path to achieve another A rating for FY 2017.

(a) This contract is issued as a direct award between the contracting activity and the 8 (a) contractor pursuant to the Partnership Agreement between the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Department of Transportation.

Large prime contractors receiving Federal contract awards valued over $ 700,000 ($ 1.5 million for construction) are required to established plans and goals for subcontracting with small businesses, veteran - owned small businesses, service disabled veteran - owned small businesses, HUBZone small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses and women - owned small business concerns.

Plans call for up to 200,000 units a year of a light truck based on the Ford Contour.Ford has begun awarding supplier contracts for the sport - utility - code - named UW187 - and plans an aggressive 36 - month vehicle - development program, according to supplier sources.Ford Division also is considering an even smaller sport - utility - code - named UW221 - based on the redesigned 1999 Ford Escort.

COMPARISON OF TRADITIONAL VS SELF PUBLISHING TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING Pros Cons Support Distribution Editing Bookstores Awards Reviews Agents Ebook Rights and RoyaltiesReporting and payments Smaller advance / print runs Limited time / shelf space Hinky contracts Possible Bankrupty Accounting irregularities Agents Hi, again.

By awarding contracts through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory under the DOE - funded Distributed Wind Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP), the goal is to make wind energy from small - and medium - sized turbines cost competitive with other distributed generation technologies and increase the number of wind - turbine designs certified to national safety and performance standards.

BBC News (2/15/13) reports: «Police have arrested five people in eastern Sicily suspected of involvement in Mafia corruption over contracts to build wind farms, Italian media report... The mayor and a councillor in the small town of Fondachelli Fantina, in Messina province, were among those detained... The five face charges including extortion, fraud and Mafia association... The investigation, which began in 2009, is linked to sub-contracts awarded to build energy farms near Agrigento, Palermo and Trapani.»

In recent years, former Trial Attorney David C. Larkin has compiled an enviable record of large - sum awards and settlements, which increases his efficiency and strengthens his advice to small business, his review of potential claims, contracts and disputes for small business and employment clients:

It aspires to award 25 % of government contracts to small and medium sized businesses and regards the codes of practice as a barrier for SMEs, mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises to entering the public sector market.

«SBA Proposes Regulations to Implement Sole - Source Contract Awards for Women - Owned Small Businesses,» client alert, June 18, 2015

Paturel v DB Services (UK) Ltd [2016] IRLR 286, [2015] EWHC 3659 (QB), QB, November 13 2015 Employer not in breach of contract when it exercised its discretion to award a financial trader a smaller annual bonus than was awarded to others.

• Complete oversight for reporting system of $ 100MM in contracts awarded to small emerging businesses.

Awarded a service coin by the Air Force Small Business Administration for providing excellent customer support to users of Small Business application used by Air Force contract negotiators.

As the Small Business Administration (SBA) reveals in the Scorecard Summary for fiscal year 2015, HUD awarded over $ 360 million in contracts to women - owned small businesses (WSmall Business Administration (SBA) reveals in the Scorecard Summary for fiscal year 2015, HUD awarded over $ 360 million in contracts to women - owned small businesses (Wsmall businesses (WOSB).