SBA’s Revised Rules and the Jobs Act - A Look at the Landscape for Small Business, One Year Later Seminar With featured speaker John Klein of the Small Business Administration Sponsored by: PilieroMazza PLLC, Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP and Sandy Spring Bank Just over one year ago, two major shifts in the landscape occurred for small business. First in late 2010, President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act, requiring the S...

Successful contractors know that a capture strategy is key to winning government proposals even before a solicitation is issued. Capture is pre-proposal preparation that encapsulates customer engagement, intelligence gathering, strategy development, competitive analysis, teaming, and solution development. Many companies skip capture outright, or struggle with what it really means in a practical sense. For example, the most important step in ca...

During the past 12 months, government contractors have heard a great deal about small business certification programs, sole source set-asides, and transparency, fraud, waste and abuse issues. What will the next 12 months bring? Is there a new norm for government contracting? How will anticipated changes impact your business? Please join Pam Mazza and Major Clark for a recap of legislation and regulations that came out in FY 2011 and a preview...

In the ever changing world of government contracting, it’s what you don’t know that can hurt you. Join us to learn more about what you can do when things go wrong and a protest filed with the Government Accountability Office could offer the solution. Seven things you should know: 1. Protests are more successful than you think2. What must be protested PRIOR for award to be timely - i.e. defects in the solicitation3. The importance o...

How to Manage Growth Under Federal Revenue Thresholds and Structure Your Business for Strategic Growth As your company becomes more successful, you run the risk of outgrowing your small business size standard(s) before you are ready to compete with large businesses. This informative seminar will provide you some tips on how to protect one of your most important assets – your small business status. Learn how forming joint ventures, restr...

The seminar will focus on the SBA final regulations published in the Federal Register on February 11, 2011. Areas to be covered include issues governing size matters, the Section 8(a) Program, joint ventures, the Mentor-Protege Program and other issues that will impact small business government contractors. Speakers are Pam Mazza, Managing Partner with PilieroMazza and Greg Funkhouser with Goodman & Company. Event sponsors are PilieroMazza...

The seminar will focus on the SBA final regulations published in the Federal Register on February 11, 2011. Areas to be covered include issues governing size matters, the Section 8(a) Program, joint ventures, the Mentor-Protege Program and other issues that will impact small business government contractors. Speakers are Tony Franco, Senior Partner with PilieroMazza, and Greg Funkhouser with Goodman & Company. Event sponsors are PilieroMazz...

The seminar will focus on the SBA final regulations published in the Federal Register on February 11, 2011. Areas to be covered include issues governing size matters, the Section 8(a) Program, joint ventures, the Mentor-Protege Program and other issues that will impact small business government contractors. The featured speaker is John Klein with SBA, Additional speakers are Pamela J. Mazza with PilieroMazza and Greg Funkhouser with Goodman ...

"The McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) applies to every contract entered into by the United States or the District of Columbia, the principal purpose of which is to furnish services to the United States through the use of service employees. The SCA requires contractors and subcontractors performing services on covered federal or District of Columbia contracts in excess of $2,500 to pay service employees in various classes no less than...