Congressman Steve Chabot, Chairman of the U.S. House Small Business Committee, will speak to women business owners at the October 16 ChallengeHER Cincinnati event where attendees will learn key strategies to market and sell their products and services to the federal government. Now in its third year, ChallengeHER is a national initiative designed to promote the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program, bring more women-owned...

FBC is excited to be working with NIST on the International Symposium on Forensic Science Error Management: Detection, Measurement, and Mitigation taking place July 20-24. Industry and government exhibitors will be highlighted July 21-23. Symposium The symposium will give forensic science practitioners and researchers from around the world the opportunity to discuss best practices for identifying and reducing errors in forensic science labs. S...

Last August, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the federal government reached its 23% small business contracting goal for the first time in eight years. Of the $83.1 billion spent with small businesses in FY13, 4.32% was awarded to women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) – up from 4% in 2012 and 3.98% in 2011 – but still short of the government’s 5% goal. On Friday, June 12, SBA Administrator Maria Cont...

On Monday, May 11, SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet will help women business owners learn about doing business with the federal government at the free ChallengeHER event. Throughout the program, attendees will learn about the SBA’s Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract program and hear from agency officials and successful small business contractors about growing their businesses by selling to the government. WOSB fede...

Attendees: Targeted audience to include Blind and Visually Impaired Veterans. About VCE: The Vision Center of Excellence (VCE) is charged with improving the care of military personnel and veterans affected by eye injuries and diseases, including visual dysfunctions related to traumatic brain injury, and developing a Defense and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry (Vision Registry) to track eye injuries and to promote research into treatmen...

Open to all. In this course, you will learn how Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) leverage an ordering activity's buying power in taking advantage of quantity discounts, saving administrative time, and reducing paperwork. One (1) CLP credit.

The Charlotte ChallengeHER event will educate female entrepreneurs about the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program and provide them with resources and knowledge to help grow their businesses through federal contracting. The event is designed to bring more women-owned firms into the federal government’s supply chain and to provide an avenue for government agencies to meet qualified women-owned contractors. ChallengeHE...

The Raleigh ChallengeHER event will educate female entrepreneurs about the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program and provide them with resources and knowledge to help grow their businesses through federal contracting. The event is designed to bring more women-owned firms into the federal government’s supply chain and to provide an avenue for government agencies to meet qualified women-owned contractors. ChallengeHER...

Open to all, but geared to Government Contracting Officers (COs). Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) enable federal agencies to buy cost-effective, innovative solutions for information technology (IT) requirements. Because most, if not all, government agencies have a need to buy IT services and solutions, GSA has made this purchasing convenient through its GWAC Programs. In this continuos learning module, you will learn about the fou...

Open to all. Learn how to achieve your socioeconomic goals with the GSA Schedules program. And learn how the FAR was changed to provide agencies with discretionary authority to set-aside orders against multiple award contracts for small business. One (1) CLP credit.