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Confirming an achievement first leaked in April, the Small Business Administration on Friday announced that the government met its small business federal contracting goal for the first time in eight years.
The agency average of 23.39 percent of eligible contract dollars for fiscal 2013—totaling $83.1 billion—was released as part of the annual scorecard on the goals of steering contracts to more small firms, including those owned by women, disadvantaged owners, and service-disabled veterans, along with those located in poor communities, known as historically underutilized business zones in government parlance.
“When we hit our small business procurement target, it’s a win,” said SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet at a press conference at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Maryland. “Small businesses get the revenue they need to grow and create jobs, and the federal government gets the chance to work with some of the most responsive, innovative and nimble companies in the U.S. while the economy grows.”
Performance in four out of five of the small business prime contracting categories showed significant improvement, with increases in performance against statutory goals, SBA reported. All agencies achieved the 23 percent goal, even though overall dollar figures are down due to cuts in contracting, the agency noted. Twenty agencies received an “A” or “A-plus” on the scorecard.
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