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Many small businesses hope to win a slice of the
government’s $787-billion stimulus money by procuring contracts with
federal, state or local governments but they don’t know where to start.
Navigating the patchwork of federal agencies and learning the rules and
steps to government contracting is a time-consuming process. Thankfully,
there are numerous organizations and seminars to help business owners get
educated on government contracting and even put them in touch with the right
people at the right agencies.
The Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Council offers a guide on some helpful resources for entrepreneurs
looking to break into government contracting for the first time. Here are
some of the places it suggests turning for help.
The Small Business
Source System can be used to search for procurement information in
multiple ways by using any or all of the following types of information
about the small businesses profiled in the system. It is not necessary to
fill out every part of the form. You must, however, enter sufficient search
criteria to limit the results to 25,000 firms or less, so as not to bog down
the system and adversely affect other users.
H.R. 1332: Small Business Lending Improvements Act of 2007
The
Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2007, the Small Business Lending
Improvements Act, and the Small Business Fairness in Contracting Act, are
bills I passed in the House of Representatives this
session with a focus on easing the burdens on our small businesses by
providing them with tax relief to help them compete for contracts in a
global marketplace.
Small Business Fairness in
Contracting Act
:
This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session
of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each
session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared
from the books. Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for
debate under a new number in the next session
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