GRSi has launched a joint venture with professional services company DeltaStrac as part of the mentor-protege program under the Small Business Administration.
Read More »Array Information Technology, Chainbridge Form App Dev’t JV; Sumeet Shrivastava Quoted
Array Information Technology and Fairfax, Virginia-based IT consulting firm Chainbridge Solutions have formed a joint venture that will focus on full-scope modernization and application support services.
Read More »Toni Townes-Whitley on Microsoft’s Efforts to Help Gov’t Customers Ensure Continuity of Operations
Toni Townes-Whitley, president of U.S. regulated industries at Microsoft, has described how the company helped agencies increasingly pursue digital transformation efforts as the COVID-19 pandemic tested the government's mission resiliency. She wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that the departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense implemented Microsoft offerings, such as Bing Maps Platform and Azure Government, to support continued operations.
Read More »Government Acquisitions Obtains SBA HUBZone Program Certification; Jay Lambke Quoted
Cincinnati, Ohio-based company Government Acquisitions Inc. has been accredited by the Small Business Administration under a program that seeks to provide economic benefits to government contractors from historically underutilized business zones.
Read More »Microsoft’s Peter Villano: SBA, DoD Should Reduce Barriers to Small Biz Participation in Gov’t Tech Programs
Peter Villano, director of Microsoft Azure, has urged the Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense to reform current approaches that prevent smaller companies from increasing participation in government technology research and development programs.
Read More »Maximus’ Laura Klebanow: Momentum Builds for IT Modernization at Agencies
Laura Klebanow, a senior manager at Maximus, wrote in a Nextgov guest piece published Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted government information technology modernization trends such as cloud migration and IT contracting in general.
Read More »Halfaker and Associates, &Partners Form New Joint Venture; Dawn Halfaker Quoted
Halfaker and Associates and &Partners, a minority-owned small business, have established a new joint venture – United Digital Partners - that will focus on delivering digital services to federal government clients.
Read More »SBA Provides $20B in Loans Under EIDL Advance Program; Jovita Carranza Quoted
The U.S. Small Business Administration has concluded the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Advance program that has provided small businesses, nonprofits and agricultural businesses a total of $20 billion in emergency funding, the SBA announced Saturday.
Read More »LinQuest, nLogic Enter Into Small Biz Mentor-Protege Relationship; Timothy Dills Quoted
LinQuest has agreed to guide nLogic in managerial, business development and technical matters as part of a partnership forged under the Small Business Administration's All Small Mentor-Protege program.
Read More »SBA. Treasury Release Further Demographics for Qualified PPP Candidates; Jovita Carranza, Steven Mnuchin Quoted
The Small Business Administration and the Department of the Treasury have announced additional data regarding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
Read More »ViON to Help Update SBA Loan IT Platforms; Tom Frana Quoted
ViON has been selected to provide information technology infrastructure for the modernization of Small Business Administration systems used to process loan applications.
Read More »Laura Stanton: GSA Eyes Final RFP Release for 8(a) STARS III IT Contract This Fiscal Year
Laura Stanton of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service said GSA plans to issue before the end of fiscal year 2020 the final request for proposals for the next iteration of the Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services governmentwide contract for information technology vendors certified under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program.
Read More »Jerry McGinn on Federal Contract Spending in Response to COVID-19
Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, said federal contract spending related to COVID-19 has become more varied as agencies transition to managing the ancillary effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday.
Read More »SBA, Treasury Allocate $10B to PPP for CDFIs; Jovita Carranza, Steven Mnuchin Quoted
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Department of the Treasury (USDT), plans to allocate $10 billion of Round 2 funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to exclusively support Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), the SBA announced Thursday.
Read More »Brillient Gets $125M SBA Loan Processing Support Order; Paul Strasser, Sukumar Iyer Quoted
Brillient has been awarded a potential $125 million task order by the Small Business Administration to provide surge support for loan processing and disbursement functions for SBA's disaster loan program.
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