"The contracting officers have the primary responsibility for ensuring small businesses that they enter into contracts with comply with the limitations on subcontracting."
"In terms of ensuring that small businesses are a part of it, the prime contract will have to submit as part of--a material part o the contract, the subcontracting plan."
"But on our current course, there is going to be some point when that happens, and it can happen extraordinarily fast as a number of other countries have experienced."
"Maybe you haven't noticed, but Standard & Poor's just downgraded the bond rating of this country for the first time in 70 years."
"In my mind there is no question we need a balanced budget requirement."
"These are full-time positions."
"We are always looking for ways to increase small business contracting opportunities, and I am proud to say that in the two and a half years I have been in my position, we have made significant and qua..."
"What we overwhelmingly heard is that it is a great opportunity to learn from somebody who has done this how to do it."
"In fiscal year 2010, small businesses won 22.7 percent of federal contracting dollars. This marks the second consecutive year of increase and the largest two-year increase in over a decade."
"So when Congress passed the Small Business Jobs Act, which asked SBA to expand our 8(a) Mentor-Protege Program to include HUBZone-eligible firms, women-owned small businesses and service-disabled vets..."
"the difference between quantifiably tracking these things which we are really trying to push on and setting goals in advance as Mr. Shear said is where some of the challenges"