On the Hill This Week -- SBA and Procurement

The Regulatory Reform and Oversight subcommittee of the House Small Business Committee held a hearing this week on SBA procurment programs. Catherine Giordano was there to testify on behalf of WIPP and its coalition partners including NAWBO.

Giordano's testimony was comprehensive pointing out problems with the administration of the 8(a) certification program as applied to wbo's, failure of the government to reach the 5% procurement goal, and issues raised by contract bundling, strategic sourcing and other inefficient or unfair contracting practices.

Many of the points that Giordano made are reflected in the report just issued by the NAWBO Procurement Task Force which will soon be available on the advocacy page of the NAWBO website.

Read the full text of Giordano's testimony.