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Women's Federal Procurement Program

 

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>>View the USWCC comments filed 5/3/10.  Our thanks to Business and Professional Women's Foundation and American Association of University Women (AAUW) for their commitment to women business owners and for signing on to these comments.

View a slide presentation on the proposed rules for the program (see below).  Take our survey on your impressions of the proposed rules for the program.

On May 24, 2010, Senator Snowe offered legislation to further improve opportunities for women-owned small businesses.  S. 3399 would ammend the "Fairness in Women-Owned Small Business Contracting Act of 2010" to remove the contract size limitations for women-owned small business set-asides, include the ability for a contracting officer to award a sole source contract to small women-owned businesses under the same conditions as sole source contracts may be awarded to qualified HUBZone, and calls for a study of women's underrepresentation every five years.

 

U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce Applauds U.S. Small Business Administration on Publication of Regulations for Women's Procurement Program

SBA takes step to bring an end to the decade of delay in implementing important women-owned small business federal contracting set-aside program  

WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce (USWCC) applauds President Obama, Administrator Mills and the U.S. Small Business Administration on their efforts to end the decade of delay in the implementation of the Women's Federal Procurement Program through publishing in the Federal Registry today a strong new set of regulations to bring this important set-aside program to fruition. While there remain several important steps before the process is complete, the regulations published today show a strong grasp of the issue and a viable process to implement and sustain a strong women-owned small business federal contracting set-aside program.  >>Read the complete press release. 

 

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