Procurement Intelligence Briefing

SBA coalition looks to give women-owned businesses better shot at federal contracting market

Published: January 14, 2019•1 min read•GovPurchase Research Desk
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The Small Business Administration and its private-sector partners are looking to give women-owned small businesses a better shot at entering the federal contracting market through their ChallengeHER program.

The agency, partnered with the group Women Impacting Public Policy and American Express, gives female small business owners a crash-course in government procurement.

“We really agreed this would be a way to combine our efforts, combine our resolve to affect positively the contracting opportunities for women business owners,” Antonio Doss, SBA’s Washington, D.C. metro area district director, said in an interview last month.  “The federal space is huge for government contracting, and women-owned businesses were participating, but not participating at the level that we thought was possible.”

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