Small Business Leadership Training
Provide all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies training on "effectively removing barriers impacting small business success."
frank.griffo
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Fix or do away with DCAA1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Small Business Leadership Training1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: SBA pay for small business size protest legal costs1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Fix or do away with DCAA1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Small Business Leadership Training1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Fix or do away with DCAA1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Small Business Leadership Performance Quals1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Small Business Leadership Training1 year ago
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Received positive feedback on Idea: Small Business Leadership Performance Quals1 year ago
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This idea is active.General »Add your comment for Idea: Small Business Leadership Training -
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This idea is active.General »Small Business Leadership Performance Quals
Add your comment for Idea: Small Business Leadership Performance QualsInclude in the performance standards for all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies the requirement "effectively removes barriers impacting small business success."
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This idea is active.General »Increase Contract Periods of Performance
1 comment for Idea: Increase Contract Periods of PerformanceIncrease periods of performance and/or award terms for small business contracts to allow small business time to mature and grow.
Moving towards shorter periods of performance, as the DOD is doing now, will not increase competition and lower costs. It will only increase costs and make it more difficult for small businesses to grow.
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This idea is active.General »SBA pay for small business size protest legal costs
2 comments for Idea: SBA pay for small business size protest legal costsHave the SBA pay for small business legal cost to defend a size protest. This will encourage the agency to improve it's rules and understanding of how small and large businesses work together to be both profitable and productive suppliers to the government.
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This idea is active.General »Put more trust into practice
1 comment for Idea: Put more trust into practiceRemove from federal procurement regulations all "lowest common denominator" type regulations and give small businesses the benefit of the doubt. Ensure that federal procurement regulation actually achieve the intent behind the rule.
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This idea is active.General »From Government to Commercial Sales
Add your comment for Idea: From Government to Commercial SalesDevelop strategies to ease burdens and enable small business government contractors to take their lessons learned from working with the government into commercial markets.
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This idea is active.General »FAR/DFAR
1 comment for Idea: FAR/DFARSpend more effort on removing regulations from the FAR/DFAR than the effort spent adding to them and trying to manage government contracts according to them. Have government agencies apply common sense and sound ethics vice the present level of reliance placed upon the FAR/DFAR driven bureaucracy.
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This idea is active.General »Fix or do away with DCAA
1 comment for Idea: Fix or do away with DCAAFix or do away with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). They are unable to perform audits in a competent and timely manner delaying payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to small business.
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This idea is active.General »Business Competency of Federal Personnel
2 comments for Idea: Business Competency of Federal PersonnelLimit federal employment to no more than 20 years of service for employees without commerical work experience. Require all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies to have a minimum of 5 years of commercial/industry experience.
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This idea is active.General »Change CFR 121.1101(b) SBA office of hearings and appeals
Your agency’s Office of Hearings and Appeals will not review an appeal where the contract has been awarded [13 C.F.R 121.1101(b)]. To correct the errors an SBA size determination in such a case the small business must proceed to Federal District Court (and incur additional legal expenses). In dismissing an appeal without review, the SBA lost accountability for its personnel who made the size determination and put additional ...more »
1 comment for Idea: Change CFR 121.1101(b) SBA office of hearings and appealsYour agency’s Office of Hearings and Appeals will not review an appeal where the contract has been awarded [13 C.F.R 121.1101(b)]. To correct the errors an SBA size determination in such a case the small business must proceed to Federal District Court (and incur additional legal expenses). In dismissing an appeal without review, the SBA lost accountability for its personnel who made the size determination and put additional costs on small business.
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This idea is active.General »Small Business Office and Leadership Support for Success
1 comment for Idea: Small Business Office and Leadership Support for SuccessMake government small business offices and agency leadership responsible for success of small business contracts for the government agency rather than just repsonsible for tracking/meeting set-aside goals.
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