Small Businesses Won Record $93.3 Billion in Federal Contracts (Continued)

 

Small Business Procurement Scorecards provide an assessment of federal achievement in prime contracting to small businesses by the twenty-four Chief Financial Officers Act agencies. It also measures progress that departments are making to ensure small business opportunities remain an integral part of their acquisition of goods and services to meet mission objectives. The Scorecard was designed as an internal control and monitoring device to ensure that (1) federal agencies reach their small business and socio-economic goals, (2) accurate and transparent contracting data is used and (3) agency-specific progress is maintained. SBA is issuing the Small Business Procurement Scorecards for the third time.

The annual Scorecard rates federal agency performance in meeting the
overall small business goal and the component contracting goals for
small disadvantaged businesses, small businesses in HUBZones, and small businesses owned by women and service-disabled veterans. Procurement goals for federal procuring agencies may vary because the SBA negotiates individual goals with each federal procuring agency.

 

* The following 13 agencies met small business contracting goals:
the departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy, the Environmental
Protection Agency, General Services Administration, Health and Human
Services, Homeland Security, Interior, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Transportation, SBA
and Veterans Affairs.

* The following 22 agencies met goals for contracts to small
disadvantaged businesses: the departments of Agriculture, Commerce,
Defense, Education, Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, General
Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security,
Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,  SBA, Social Security Administration,
State, Transportation, Treasury and Veterans Affairs.

* The following 14 agencies met goals for women-owned small
businesses: the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy,
General Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Homeland
Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Transportation, Treasury, and SBA.

* The following nine agencies met HUBZone contracting goals: the
departments of Agriculture, Energy, General Services Administration,
Homeland Security, Interior, Labor, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Transportation and SBA.

* The following four agencies met goals for small businesses
owned by service-disabled veterans: the departments of the Environmental
Protection Agency, GSA, Labor and Veterans Affairs.

 

According to the Scorecard ratings of performance on all five goals:

 

* One agency - GSA - met or surpassed its goals in all areas.
* Eight agencies - DHS, DOE, DOI, DOL, DOT, NRC, SBA, USDA - met
or surpassed four of the five goals.
* Four agencies - Education, EPA, HHS, VA - met or surpassed
three of the five goals.
* Four agencies - DOC, HUD, NASA and Treasury - met or surpassed
two of the five goals.
* Five agencies -DOD, DOJ, NSF, SSA and State - met or surpassed
one of the five goals.
* Two agencies - OPM and USAID - met none of the five goals.

 

About the Scorecard

SBA rates 24 agencies green, yellow or red on each of the individual
goals established by Congress and gave a numerical score to each agency based on how many of the five goals were met or surpassed.

Each federal agency has a different small business contracting goal,
determined annually in consultation with SBA.  SBA ensures that the sum
total of all of the goals meets the 23 percent target established by
law. 

As part of its ongoing efforts to increase access to contracting
opportunities for small businesses, the SBA is continuing to work with
federal agency procurement staff to strengthen the integrity of
contracting data, including providing tools to facilitate public review
of data and training to improve accuracy.

The goaling reports released today by SBA are available at

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/goals/index.html.