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HHS dismantles small business office in massive restructuring

HHS dismantles small business office in massive restructuring

HHS has effectively dismantled its Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), laying off the entire staff except for its executive director amid a sweeping agency overhaul. The move leaves just one person—Executive Director Shannon Jackson—to uphold statutory small business responsibilities at an agency that awarded $39.

Why expanding small-business contracting is more challenging than one rule

Why expanding small-business contracting is more challenging than one rule

The Washington Business Journal covers SBA’s proposal to expand the rule of two to IDIQ order competition, co-signing without comment SBA’s news release statement that such a rule would drive more than $6 billion annually to small business. What casual observers of the IDIQ trend miss is the