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Small Business Utilization Center

The New England Region’s Small Business Utilization Center (SBUC) serves as the regional liaison and advocate for small businesses within Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. As the regional advocates for small business owners, it is the mission of the SBUC to promote increased access to GSA's nationwide procurement opportunities.

GSA, like all federal agencies, has procurement preference goals for contracting with small businesses. Procurement preference goals are a performance measure that GSA strives to achieve through its various programs.The procurement preference categories are small, small disadvantaged, Section 8(a), woman-owned small, HUBZone small, veteran-owned small, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, as well as federally recognized Native American tribes and tribal organizations.

The SBUC promotes and facilitates the following programs and activities for small business owners that support an environment that provides access to the GSA and other federal agencies by:

  • Working with contracting officers to highlight small businesses for specific contracts;
  • Counseling potential vendors on the procurement process;
  • Providing marketing resources;
  • Participating in outreach activities such as networking sessions, workshops and tradeshows; and
  • Conducting monthly workshops which provide valuable information that set the road map on how businesses can conquer the procurement requirements and position themselves for opportunities.
  • For more information, and to register for the next workshop, please visit the GSA Schedules Contract Training (Boston, MA) page.
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Last Reviewed 2/5/2009