Congress Kills A Plan To Cut Federal Contracts For Small Businesses
Forbes | January 01, 2017
Back in the fall, small business advocates were aghast to discover that the U.S. Senate, a champion of small business when it comes to speechifying, had crafted a defense authorization bill that threatened to cut federal government contracts to small companies by as much as a 25 percent. The legislation in question was Section 838 of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which appeared to allow the Department of Defense to count subcontracts with small businesses on big weapons programs against the agency's prime contract goals.