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Hello Small Business Community,

We hope everyone is have a great holiday season and that you have learned a lot this year through our training programs.  We use your great feedback to help us increase the quality of our training sessions and to develop valuable outreach initiatives.  

Recently we posted the FREE 2013 classes for the 5 Part Series "Doing Business with GSA" and you can register at both www.gsa.gov/smallbizevents and www.gsa.gov/smallbiztraining .

Hello Small Business Community,

It is a beautiful day in September and I am wondering about our move to a more sustainable work environment and how that affects our small businesses as we seek to provide the best customer care. 

The following was forwarded to me to share with small businesses. As we seek to meet the goal of Executive Order 13514 which requires 95% of government procurements to be sustainable - opportunities like the one below will become more and more like the norm.

See below and hope it opens doors.

Revised March 16, 2012
 
Subcontract Opportunities on DOE Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC) for GSA’s Net Zero Challenge

 GSA EXPO’s B2G Roundtables for Sm

This year our agency (GSA) is collaborating with the Department of Defense to identify the challenges of small business working in the Federal Market with the new sustainable procurement requirements from Executive Order 13514 and how we can make those challenges become opportunities for small businesses instead.  Current

 To kick off 2012 I wrote an article for agency personnel getting started with social media.  As I was reading over the edits to the article I thought this might be helpful also for our small busness community looking to step into the social network.  I'm in no way an expert as some of you proably have figured out.  I'm still in the learning curve and adapting to the changing cultures of each site.  I make mistakes with URL's, editing and more but I'm here trying to give what I can every day to make a difference for small businesses.  I&#39

Did you know that there are many changes coming that will affect the way that agencies purchase from small business?  As these changes happen we at OSBU are working hard to get you good and current information.