Women-Owned Businesses

NTIS order number:
PB81-236721
Price codes:
A06 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)

Women-Owned Small Business: Winning in the Federal Market Place (Volume 1--Survey Findings on Bidders and Winners)

Alice K. Gordon, Emily Lusher, and Meredith Webb
1981. 104p. Contract awarded in FY 1979 to CRC Education and Human Development, Inc., 26 Brighton Street, Belmont, MA 02178.

Executive Order 12138, issued in May 1979, led to several initiatives designed to increase federal procurement from women- owned businesses. Using a survey of 1000 women-owned businesses selected from the SBA's Procurement Automated Source System (PASS), this study sought to determine what distinguished women-owned businesses who won federal contracts from other women-owned businesses.

All three volumes of this study are available for purchase in a single set The NTIS order number for the three-volume set is PB81-236713. The price is $58.00.

NTIS order number:
PB81-236739
Price codes:
A07(Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)

Women-Owned Small Business: Winning in the Federal Market Place (Volume 2--Spotlight on Forty Businesses)

Meredith Webb, Emily Lusher, Karen E. Handmaker, and Linda McMillan
1981. 128p. Contract awarded in FY 1979 to CRC Education and Human Development, Inc., 26 Brighton Street, Belmont, MA 02178.

What is it that makes 40 women successful in their efforts to sell to the U.S. Government? The researchers sought to answer this question by interviewing representatives from 40 women-owned businesses that had successfully bid on federal contracts. The businesses selected all had won two or more federal contracts and had capture rates of 20 percent or higher.

NTIS order number:
PB81-236747
Price codes:
A06 (Paper)
A01 (Microfiche)

Women-Owned Small Businesses: Winning in the Federal Market Place (Volume 3--Technical Research Report)

Emily Lusher
1981. 106p. Contract awarded in FY 1979 to CRC Education and Human Development, Inc., 26 Brighton Street, Bolmont, MA 02178.

This report details the data collection and analysis processes that were used to compile the studies published as volumes 1 and 2 under a contract to study women-owned businesses in the federal marketplace. (See entries for volumes 1 and 2, above.)