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SBA procurement center representatives: watchdogs or endangered species?(United States Small Business Administration)
Set-Aside Alert, May, 2003
The guardians of small business contracting opportunities are dwindling in number and some of them are discouraged, according to their private comments.
The number of SBA procurement center representatives has shrunk from more than 200 in the 1980s to 47 today.
Procurement center representatives work with major contracting offices to encourage opportunities for small firms by recommending contracts for set-aside and discouraging unnecessary bundling.
As part of the Bush administration's anti-bundling strategy, SBA says PCRs should examine planned procurements and "identify alternative strategies to maximize the participation of small businesses in the procurement."
Some advocates and some PCRs say there are too few of them to do the...
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