Small business GWACs: A history of success in promoting governmentwide opportunities for small businesses

This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author.

The Biden administration’s focus on enhancing opportunities for small businesses provides a timely occasion for federal managers to take stock of current acquisition strategies, processes, and requirements that impact business opportunities in the federal marketplace. This blog focuses on the government’s long-running success in promoting small business opportunities in federal acquisition.

Over the years, the General Services Administration, to its credit, developed an acquisition strategy centered on a portfolio of standalone small business governmentwide acquisition contracts that exist in addition to its other governmentwide contract vehicles that are dedicated to meeting customer agency mission support…

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