New Entrants and Small Business Graduation in the Market for Federal Contracts

New Entrants and Small Business Graduation in the Market for Federal Contracts

Author: Andrew P. Hunter

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 1442280921

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This paper garners information crucial to understanding business growth for new entrants and small businesses who contract with the federal government by utilizing publicly available contracting data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) to track new entrants from 2001-2016. This information is then used to evaluate entrances, exits, and status changes among federal vendors with the purpose of comparing challenges faced by small businesses with those of larger ones. Measuring market trends over time and in multiple sectors shows how the challenges facing small businesses, such as market barriers to entry and imperfect competition, keep them from growing. The final results compare the survival rates between small and non-small new entrants contracting with the federal government and analyze the graduation rates for those small new entrants who grew in size during the observation period and survived after ten years. The study finds that around 40 percent of new entrants exit the market for federal contracts after three years, around 50-60 percent after five years, and only about one-fifth of new entrants remain in the federal contracting arena in the final year of observation. Across the six samples studied, thegraduation rates of small businesses consistently decrease.


The Effect of Federal Contract Bundling on Small Business

The Effect of Federal Contract Bundling on Small Business

Author: U. S. Committee On Small Business

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-03

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780666780102

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Excerpt from The Effect of Federal Contract Bundling on Small Business: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Procurement, Taxation, and Tourism of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; Washington, D. C., June 13, 1993 Today, the subcommittee continues to investigate the contract bundling practice Of the Federal Government and the damage that it is causing to the small business contracting community. The sub committee was particularly disappointed that the report which was presented by the sba was severely lacking in tangible facts to the bundling problem. Unfortunately, its main conclusion was that {nore study was needed in order to determine the scope of the prob em. This subcommittee not only has long accepted the fact that there is a problem, but it believes action, not further study, is warranted. To this end, the subcommittee has taken a number of initiatives. Today, for those who choose to question the validity for the exist ence of bundling problems, we will receive testimony from a number of small business people who will provide us with details and the reality of how this practice is affecting small businesses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Federal Contracting and Subcontracting with Small Businesses

Federal Contracting and Subcontracting with Small Businesses

Author: Jay M. Guthrie

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781624172410

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Congress has broad authority to impose requirements upon the federal procurement process, or the process whereby agencies obtain goods and services from the private sector. One of the many ways in which Congress has exercised this authority is by enacting measures intended to promote contracting and subcontracting with "small businesses" by federal agencies. This book describes and analyses measures that Members of the 112th Congress have enacted or proposed in response to particular issues pertaining to small business contracting and subcontracting with a focus on legal authorities; contract "bundling"; small business set-aside programs; and "preference contracts".