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| Date/Time | Title | Description |
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| July 28, 2021 | BREAKING: US Government Breaks Records With $145.7B Awarded to Small Businesses | The $145.7 billion figures surpasses the previous fiscal year’s total by a whopping $13 billion. It is however worth noting that these figures account for Fiscal Year 2020, before President Joe B ...Read more |
| July 13, 2021 | Biden Admin. Advised on Equity by Top Contracting Association | The Professional Service Council (PSC) is a contracting association that represents more than 400 companies that do business with the federal government. The group submitted a response last week to ...Read more |
| July 9, 2021 | Little Tangible for Small Businesses in Biden’s Executive Order | The president’s executive order on “promoting competition” doesn’t offer much concrete for small businesses. The executive order released today contains quite a few effective measures ...Read more |
| June 30, 2021 | BREAKING: USDOT Proposes $905m in Future Infrastructure Grants | The awards will come as part of the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) discretionary grant program and will go to economically important rail and highway projects. “These timely ...Read more |
| June 30, 2021 | Border Wall Billions Redirected to Military Construction Projects | The Pentagon “will use the $2.2 billion of available unobligated military construction appropriations to restore funding for 66 projects in 11 States, 3 territories, and 16 countries in FY 2021, ...Read more |
| June 24, 2021 | US Territory Northern Mariana Islands Needs More Construction Workers | As reported by the Saipan Tribune the Governor of the ...Read more |
| June 8, 2021 | Federal Government to Ramp Up Procurement from SDBs to Tune of $100B | As the White House Fact Sheet notes, the United States federal government “is the largest consumer of goods in the world.” By ramping up procurement from minority-owned businesses, the Biden Ad ...Read more |
| June 3, 2021 | SBA’s Venue Relief Program Also Telling Business Owners They Are Dead | The Shuttered Venue Operators Operators Grant (SVOG) program was passed into law in the December 2020 coronavirus stimulus package, coming as music to the ears of music venue operators after a long ...Read more |
| June 1, 2021 | Veteran Slams SBA’s EIDL Program, Wants to Talk to Manager | This is a topic we at Contractor News have been monitoring for some time as small businesses owners on social media have tried to use what little voice they have to sound the alarm about the SBA’ ...Read more |
| May 27, 2021 | US Senate Committee Unanimously Passes $304 Billion Highway Bill | The funding lasts for five years and marks a massive increase over the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which carried $226.3 billion in funds. The extension on the FAST Ac ...Read more |