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The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy has asked the Department of Homeland Security to re-examine the economic impact of a plan to manage small-business contracts via a mentoring program developed by a special small-business office.
“Large business prime contractors’ good-faith efforts to provide subcontracting opportunities to small businesses and to fulfill their subcontracting plan should be based on actual subcontract awards and not credits or incentives earned through participation in the mentor program,” said Thomas Sullivan, chief counsel of advocacy. He suggested the department re-examine the provision and modify the subcontracting elements.
