FY04 SMALL BUSINESS GOALS
DoD sets overall DoD goals, as well as established goals for NSA, each fiscal year.
| PRIME Contracting | FY04 DoD | FY04 NSA | FY04 Actual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small | 23.0% | 24.0% | 26.3% |
| Small Disadvantaged | 5.7% | 5.0% | 4.7% |
| Women-owned | 5.0% | 1.6% | 2.54% |
| HUBZones | 3.0% | 0.2% | .39% |
| Service-Disabled Veterans | 3.0% | 0.5% | .20% |
Provisional Industrial Security Approval (PISA) Sponsorship Program
The National Security Agency (NSA) seeks to expand its industrial base and desires to engage in discussions with industry to encourage and improve industry's understanding of NSA's requirements and to improve NSA's understanding and potential use of industry capabilities.
Such discussions will foster industry innovation and development of products, technologies and services applicable to NSA's requirements and will enhance NSA's ability to acquire "state of the art" goods and services of the highest quality. Because many of NSA's requirements are classified, the most productive discussions can occur only with a company's representatives who have been authorized access to such information. NSA will therefore sponsor the company for a PISA in order to engage in classified discussions. A PISA will be issued to a company only after NSA has granted SCI access to the company's key management personnel (KMP).
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SBO Bi-Weekly Meetings
The NSA SBO Bi-Weekly Meetings are an NSA Familiarization Briefing in which the SBO provides information to small businesses in attendance as to how they may start to do business with NSA, as well as information in other areas of interest to small businesses (information regarding registering businesses with the ARC, SBA, CCR, Dun and Bradstreet; providing contact sources, obtaining clearances, etc.).
These sessions are conducted every second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST., at the NSA Acquisition Resource Center (ARC) facility located in Hanover, MD. To register for a Biweekly Briefing, click on Bi-Weekly Registration.
NSA Set-Aside for Small Business (NSETS)
NSETS is a multiple award task and delivery order contract vehicle. NSA uses NSETS to conduct "task order" competitions among the eleven NSETS prime contractors to acquire contract services across a broad spectrum to satisfy agency needs in business, engineering, information technology, operations support, and training areas.
The prime contractors are:
NSA is currently planning its strategy for the NSETS II competition. All official pre-solicitation communications regarding NSETS II will ONLY be made via the Acquisition Resource Center (ARC). The NSETS Program Management Office and Contracting Officer will refrain from discussing NSETS II with individual companies. All companies interested in obtaining information on the NSETS II re-compete MUST register on the Acquisition Resource Center (ARC) web site.
If you have any questions concerning NSETS, please contact Anna Milo, Program Manager, 443-479-7921.