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GovConWire Events will host the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Virtual Forum featuring keynote speaker Brian Barnes, associate administrator of the Office of Small Business Utilization at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), on October 20th. To register for the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum, as well as view future events, visit GovConWire Events.

The General Services Administration has issued a request for information to assess the capabilities of small businesses to meet the information technology requirements of agency clients that will use the upcoming Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract.

Departments and agencies across the federal government have pushed to increase opportunities for small businesses. Especially after the COVID-19, various Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), such as the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and the General Services Administration (GSA), have educated business owners on new resources and contracts. 

The General Services Administration is seeking feedback from industry on emerging technologies that could be covered by the Polaris small business governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology support services.

In Aug. 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the federal government exceeded its small business federal contracting goal. The federal government has awarded $132.9 billion in federal contracts to small businesses, increasing $12 billion from fiscal year 2019.  By law, 23 percent of government contracts must go to small businesses.

The General Services Administration has named its next-generation small business governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology support services as Polaris.

Sharon Ridley, deputy executive director for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will be featured as a panelist during GovConWire’s Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum on Oct. 20th. Click here to register for GovConWire’s Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum!

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The Department of Defense plans to release by the end of August a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $11.7B single-award contract for information technology support services, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.

The Federal Communications Commission has issued a solicitation for a potential five-year, $204M contract for program management and software development support services, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.