current objectives
- Objective: Ensure the return of minority contracts that agencies have taken away from the minority community.
- Objective: Cease the bundling of minority contracts for unrestricted large Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procurements.
- Objective: Maintain the same minority set aside if minority contracts are transitioned to GSA Schedules/FSS.
- Objective: Prevent agencies from claiming exemption under FAR 8.404(a) to avoid compliance with SBA regulations, which require their concurrence to remove a contract from the 8(a) program when resoliciting it as a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procurement.
- Objective: Address the unavailability or inaccessibility of the Small Business Dashboard at smallbusiness.data.gov, which previously provided access to information on how agencies are performing in terms of their minority goals.
- Objective: Seek confirmation from agencies that the unfair practice of revoking contracts for minority businesses is not occurring in other agencies, services, or within all agencies.
- Objective: Under the enforcement strategy, we proactively reach out to large businesses, aiming to foster collaborations with minority firms that can assist them in achieving their small business goals. It is both surprising and concerning that despite being aware of these goals, a significant number of these businesses lack the necessary metrics to assess their compliance. This discrepancy raises a crucial question: What purpose do these goals serve if they are not effectively enforced?