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Small Business Utilization Center
New England Region Small Business Utilization Center (SBUC) Additional Contacts For 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:
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