An Analysis of Smaller Firm Participation in Federal Contracting, FY 1981
Ann Parker Maust, Mary Greiner, Tracy Pera, and Barbara Waite
1983. 171p. Contract awarded in FY 1982 to Research Dimensions,
Inc., 5865 Lowell Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22312.
All small firms, particularly minority-and women-owned firms, have difficulty obtaining federal research and development contract dollars. The use of negotiated noncompetitive procurement is cited by the study as an obstacle to these firms. Contract actions of $5 million or more are relatively inaccessible to small firms.
NTIS order number:
PB89-156665
Price codes:
A11 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
Comparison of the Costs of the Government versus the Private Sector in Providing Goods and Services to the Government
T. Arthur Smith
1985. 236p. Contract awarded in FY 1984 to Management
Analysis, Inc., 401 Church Street NE, Suite F, Vienna, VA
22180.
The study compared the cost accounting standards used in OMB Circular A-76 comparisons with true relative costs of government and private sector services. Included in the study were computer, audiovisual, storage, warehousing, and messenger services.
NTIS order number:
PB92-101922
Price codes:
A04 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 106
Development of Data for a More Recent Year of Federal Procurement
Jack G. Faucett
1989. 63p. Contract awarded in FY 1988 to Jack Faucett
Associates, 4550 Montgomery Ave., Suite 300 North,
Bethesda, MD 20814.
Small businesses obtain in federal procurement less than two-thirds of their share of total sales, even after adjustment to reflect the mix of goods bought by the federal government. This study, by providing information on the industries with a small- business component that appears to be underutilized in federal purchasing, may be useful in increasing the proportion of awards to small firms. It was based on a merger of two large micro data bases: the Federal Procurement Data Center's master files for FY 1986 and the Small Business Data Base's USEEM file.
NTIS order number:
PB91-213470
Price codes:
A09 (Paper)
A02 (Microfiche)
RS number: 108
Effect of State and Local Contracting on Small Firms
Elizabeth M. Chant and David A. Walker
1988. 186p. Contract awarded in FY 1988 to David A. Walker and
Elizabeth M. Chant, Washington, DC 20016.
Purchases of goods and services by state and local governments accounted for approximately 89 percent of their total expenditures during the 1980s. The state and local governments studied reported that as many as 80 percent of their private sector contracts are with small firms. The dollar volume of these contracts was generally 40 to 50 percent of the total contract dollars awarded to the private sector. The small firm percentage was much higher in smaller towns and counties where the scale of services contracted is smaller.
NTIS order number:
PB81-208027
Price codes:
A02 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
An Estimate of New Business Expenses Which Are Paid and Subsidized by U.S. Taxpayers
D. G. Soergel
1981. 20p. Contract awarded in FY 1981 to DGS Associates,
Potomac, MD 20854.
Does government R&D;funding reduce the number of new market entries and foster economic concentration in certain industries by subsidizing business expansion rather than business starts? This study is an attempt to study the distorting effects of such government funding as it related to Research Project Grant awards made by the National Institutes of Health.
NTIS order number:
PB83-145854
Price codes:
A12 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
Factors Affecting Small Business Participation in Government Procurement
Gershon Cooper
1982. 264p. Contract awarded in FY 1980 to Cooper &;Company, 112
Hoyt Street, Stamford, CT 06095.
This report uses data on contract actions that were tabulated from the Federal Procurement Data Center files for fiscal year 1983 by 850 SIC industries. It identifies and quantities a number of factors that are important in explaining the small business share of federal procurement in manufacturing and non-manufacturing industry groups.
NTIS order number:
PB87-220117
Price codes:
A03 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
Factors Affecting the Small Business Share of Federal Procurement
Jack Faucett
1987. 43p. Contract awarded in FY 1987 to Jack Faucett
Associates, 7300 Pearl Street, Suite 200, Bethesda, MD
20814.
The most important factors found by this report to affect the small business share of procurement were: average size of contract; percentage of contracts that are awarded competitively; small business share of industry output; and the small business set-aside percentage in procurement.
NTIS order number:
PB86-168598
Price codes:
A05 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 59
Federal Procurement Cost Growth by Performer and Contract Size, Type and Method, FY 1979-82, Volume 1
Peter Boulay
1984. 93p. Contract awarded in FY 1982 to the Washington
Management Group, Inc., 1990 M Street NW, Washington,
DC 20036.
The rate of growth on large business contracts was found by this study to be 2.28 times that of small business. The ratio of large business growth to small business growth ranged from 1.05 for cost-type contracts to 5.10 for contracts that began with obligations between $10,000 and $25,000.
Volume 1 contains the text of the report; volume 2 (see next entry) contains associated tables of data.
NTIS order number
PB86-216710
Price codes:
A23 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
Federal Procurement Cost Growth by Performer and Contract Size, Type and Method, FY 1979-82, Volume 2
Peter Boulay
1984. 531p. Contract awarded in IFY 1982 to the Washington
Management Group, Inc., 1990 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20036.
This volume contains tables of data related to the text of the study that is contained in volume 1 of the researcher's report. For a description, see the preceding entry.
NTIS order number:
PB93-144590
Price codes:
A08 (Paper)
A02 (Microfiche)
RS number: 132
Impact of Federal Procurement on Small Business Development
Richard F. Fullenbaum and Mariana A. McNeill
1992. 156p. Contract awarded in FY 1990 to M&R;Associates, 11622
Boiling Brook Place, Rockville, MD 20852.
Does winning federal contract awards increase a firm's chances
for survival? This study attempts to establish a correlation
between a small firm's winning federal contract awards and its
long-term growth and viability. Results show that the
dissolution rate of small contractors is about half that of
non contractors and that employment gains are higher among firms
winning federal contracts regardless of firm size or ownership
characteristics. Winning more than one contract is critical to
the survival of contractors with 10 or more employees.
NTIS order number
PB89-152805
Price codes:
A04 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 98
An Investigation into the Effect of Contracting with Small Business on Procurement Workload
Jack Moshman
1988. 73p. Contract awarded in FY 1984 to Moshman Associates,
7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814.
The study attempts to ascertain whether the use of small business increases the workload in procurement offices, as measured by the ratio of contract actions to government procurement personnel. No allowance is made for the greater dollars involved in large business contracts.
NTIS order number:
PB88-213962
Price codes:
A08 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 96
Nonprofit Competition in Federal Procurement
Jack G. Faucett
1988. 158p. Contract awarded in FY 1987 to Jack Faucett
Associates, 7300 Pearl Street, Suite 200, Bethesda, MD
20814.
Unfair competition from nonprofit organizations and increasing the small business share in federal procurement were identified as the third and seventeenth largest concerns of the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business. In an attempt to quantify these issues, this study assembles and analyzes some basic data on federal procurement from nonprofits, based largely on federal procurement activity in fiscal year 1983.
NTIS order number:
PB93-189355
Price codes:
A06 (Paper)
A02 (Microfiche)
RS number: 133
The Pattern of Federal Procurement from Minority and Women-Owned Small Businesses
Harry J. Chmelynski and Jonathan Skolnik
1992. 121p. Contract awarded in IFY 1990 to Jack Faucett
Associates, 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 300 North,
Bethesda, MD 20814.
This study measures the extent to which minority and women-owned businesses receive a proportionate share of federal procurement and identifies sectors in which these businesses have been successful or unsuccessful in obtaining federal contracts. It is based on a merger of two large data bases: the Federal Procurement Data Center's master files for FY 1987 and FY 1990, and the USEEM file of the Small Business Data Base.
NTIS order number:
PB88-243092
Price codes:
A07 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 87
Procurement Related Paperwork: Barriers to Small Business Participation
Owan Birnbaum
1988. 148p. Contract awarded in FY 1986 to Foresight Science and
Technology, 2000 P Street NW, Suite 305, Washington, DC 20036.
The study found that getting information from the government is more burdensome to companies than providing information to the government. Assistance in this area is warranted. The report casts doubt on the need for an "information collection" budget.
NTIS order number:
PB87-209557
Price codes:
A04 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 43
Procurement Share vs. Industry Share
Jack Faucett, Jonathan Skolnik, and Harry J.Chmelynski
1986. 62p. Contract awarded in FY 1984 to Jack Faucett
Associates, Inc., 5454 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1155,
Chevy Chase, MD 20815.
This report finds that the percentage of goods and services the federal government purchases from small businesses does not equal their share of sales in the economy for any of the major procurement groups. This disparity is least in construction and greatest in research and development.
NTIS order number
PB90-205634
Price codes:
A03 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
Prompt Payment: Does Government Pay (On Time)?
Small Business Research and Education Council
1988. 46p. Contract awarded in FY 1987 to Small Business
Research and Education Council, 1025 Vermont Avenue
NW, Suite 1201, Washington, DC 20005.
This study surveyed 541 federal government vendors. A substantial number believe the government fails to pay its bills on or before the due date. The survey respondents also believe agencies ignore their responsibility to pay interest on late payments, as required under the Prompt Payment Act of 1982.
NTIS order number:
PB87-123576
Price codes:
A05 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 61
Small Business Access to the Federal Marketplace: Relative Costs of Small and Large Businesses in Supplying Products and Services for Federal and Private Sector Markets
Peggy B. Burke and Terry E. Hedrick
1986. 89p. Contract awarded in FY 1984 to the Cosmos
Corporation, 1730 K Street NW, Suite 1302, Washington, DC 20006.
A survey of 206 firms revealed that, for both large and small businesses, doing business with the federal government is more costly than doing business with the private sector. Large firms cited the cost of proposal preparation; small firms cited acceptance and payment delays.
NTIS order number:
PB82-160466
Price codes:
A05(Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 17
The Small Business Firm as Provider of Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service in American Communities
John A. Campbell
1981. [variously paginated]. Contract awarded in FY 1980 to
Gage-Babcock Associates, Inc., 135 Addison Avenue, Elmhurst, IL
60126.
The study compares the costs and levels of service of several private fire fighting and emergency medical services providers in similar communities. Costs to communities were as little as one- third the cost of equivalent government-provided service in similar communities.
NTIS order number:
PB81-163826
Price codes:
A03 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 10
A Small Business Participates in Major Government Procurements
Henry J. Russell
1981. 47p. Contract awarded in FY 1981 to Rockford Acromatic
Products Company, 611 Beacon Street, Rockford, IL 61111.
This report recommends that the federal government, and particularly the Department of Defense, use the "team" approach in major procurements so that small vendors may join together to execute major contracts.
NTIS order number:
PB90-195595
Price codes:
A08 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
Small Business Participation in A-76 Privatization Initiatives [full report] pdf
Deborah Callahan, Ann E. Hammill, and Ann Parker Maust 1989. 155p.
Contract awarded in FY 1987 to Research Dimensions Inc., 99 Canal
Center, Suite 300, Alexandria, VA 22314.
OMB Circular A-76 requires federal agencies to review their commercial activities and contract out these activities to the private sector when certain criteria are met. Using data on A-76 activities for fiscal years 1985 through 1987, this study found that small firms received a large share of both the dollars and the number of contracts awarded under the A-76 program. Included in the study were the Department of Defense and nine civilian agencies.
NTIS order number:
PB83-159350
Price codes:
A06 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
Small Business: Vital Links in the Defense Production Chain
Gail G. Schwartz
1982. 112p. Contract awarded in FY 1981 to Garfield Schwartz
Associates, 601 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003.
Small firms comprise from 60 to 98 percent of the firms in the five critical defense-related industries included in this study. With the prospect of a doubling of the nation's defense procurement budget between 1982 and 1985, this study looked at ways of facilitating small businesses' ability to compete for federal defense procurements.
NTIS order number:
PB85-230548
Price codes:
A05 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 84
Study of Subcontracting
Robert L. Hiett
1985. 91p. Contract awarded in FY 1982 to KCA Research, Inc.,
5501 Cherokee Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22312.
In this 1982 study, about 21.3 percent of federal contracts contained subcontracts totaling $15 billion, of which more than half went to small businesses. Those firms in programs which required reports of subcontracting subcontracted more than the average contractor. This fact did not benefit small business.
NTIS order number:
PB91-168633
Price codes:
A09 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 110
Subcontracting: A Case Study
Kirk C. Heriot and Caron H. St. John
1991. 186p. Contract awarded in FY 1989 to College of
Commerce and Industry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
29634.
The study's goal was to assess the effects of legislative
efforts, specifically Public Law 95-507, to encourage the use of
small and small disadvantaged businesses by federal prime
contractors. The study found that the goal-setting process for
subcontracting from these firms, while it documents prime
contractor decisions, does not appear to influence the level of
subcontracting from these firms. Moreover, the 294 and 295 forms
used to collect data on subcontracting activities contain design
flaws leading to underreporting of prime contractor commitments.
NTIS order number:
PB89-113534
Price codes:
A08(Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
RS number: 92
The Surety Bond and Small Firm Competitiveness in Federal Service Contracting: An Exploratory Analysis
Ann Parker Maust and Deborah Callahan
1988. 153p. Contract awarded in FY 1986 to Research Dimensions
Inc., 101 ÿ South Union Street, Alexandria, VA 22314.
This study explores federal service contract bonding as a factor affecting small firm competitiveness in federal acquisition. The study examines the tour roles in the bonding process: the contracting officer's decision to require bonding, the small service contractor's response to the bonding requirement, the surety bond underwriter's decision to underwrite bonds for small service contractors, and the SBA regional surety bond coordinator's decision to provide bond guarantee assistance. The report makes observations about the problems small firms encounter in attempting to obtain bonding.
NTIS order number:
PB87-221586
Price codes:
A07 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)
The Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act and Small Firm Competitiveness in Federal Acquisition
Ann Parker Maust
1987. 136p. Contract awarded in FY 1985 to Research Dimensions,
Inc., 427 North Lee Street, Alexandria, VA 22314.
The Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act requires a firm bidding for federal contracts to be a "regular dealer" in the product or service and to inventory relevant items. These restrictions cost the government $6.4 million in fiscal years 1984 and 1985, not including the cost of staff necessary to process referrals.