NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

SBA, Dell Launch New Educational Video Series To Help Small Businesses Grow, Create Jobs

December 22, 2009 – Highlighting the experiences of successful entrepreneurs, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Dell has launched an online video series offering tools and strategies to help small business owners rebound from the economic recession and put themselves in a position to expand and create jobs.

Strategies for Growth: Advice for Expanding Your Business includes real-world insight, solutions and advice from small business owners who’ve succeeded, in good and bad economic times.  Additionally, the series draws on the expertise of counselors, policy makers and others for accessing resources and tools available to small business owners. Read More >

NNSA Launches Small Business Week on its Website

December 21, 2009 – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that it distributed more than $418 million in small business obligations for federal prime contracts in fiscal year 2009. In addition, NNSA surpassed its departmental small business goal by over 15 percent in fiscal year 2009.

To highlight the success of its small business program, NNSA has launched a new “NNSA Small Business Week” feature on its website.  In addition to releasing a new NNSA fact sheet on our investment in small businesses across the nuclear security enterprise, each day this week the NNSA website will feature a different “Small Business of the Day.”

NNSA uses small businesses to fulfill the majority of its technical and administrative support services at its headquarters in Washington, D.C.. These blanket purchase agreements (BPA) represent 11 teams of more than 80 small businesses and are open for use by any DOE departmental element. NNSA has access to a large number of firms with diverse skills and capabilities to try out and, of course, receive small business credit.
 
The NNSA Management & Operating (M&O) contractor’s small business programs obligated almost 50 percent of all subcontracted work to small businesses.

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Business Opportunity Session (BOS) Webcast

December 17, 2009 – The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization will host its Business Opportunity Session (BOS) today at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) headquarters in Washington, D.C. 

Department of Energy program office representatives, as well as representatives from local state small business offices and the US Small Business Administration, will present at the event to discuss subcontracting and contracting opportunities as well as financial assistance available to small businesses interested in working with DOE.  

The entire event broadcast through a LIVE WEBCAST via the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization's website:  http://smallbusiness.doe.gov/. 

For additional information about this event, please contact BOS Coordinator Kent.Hibben@hq.doe.gov.

To download information from the September 2009 BOS:

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September 2009 - Business Opportunity Session
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