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Accession Number
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PB2012-109165
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Title
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Characteristics of Recent Federal Small Business Contracting.
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Publication Date
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May 2012
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Media Count
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62p
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Personal Author
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N/A
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Abstract
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The report has two main findings. First, agencies that achieve their small business procurement goals have three factors in common: they have a high utilization rate of new small businesses; small firms make up a larger share of these agencies contractors compared to agencies that fell short of their goals; and a large share of their contract actions are fixed-price contracts. Second, procurement initiated under the Recovery Act successfully utilized small contractors, both in terms of number of entities and dollars spent. Of the $51.7 billion spent on Recovery Act contracts by 28 agencies from February 2009 through December 2010, 25.5 percent of the total, or $13.1 billion, was expended through small business contracts.
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Keywords
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Characteristics
Contract administration
Contractors
Federal agencies
Government procurement
Small businesses
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Source Agency
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US Small Business Administration
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NTIS Subject Category
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96 - Business & Economics
70B - Management Practice
70F - Public Administration & Government
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Corporate Author
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Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc., Fairfax, VA.
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Document Type
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Technical report
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Title Note
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Contract rept.
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NTIS Issue Number
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1226
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Contract Number
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SBAHQ-09-M-0271
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