[ForGovSector] Past Performance 'as-is' under new bill; Translation bizopps, simplified; SBINT/CYBER meeting Friday; Small biz 'Oops!' by DoD

For The Government Sector

The American Small Business Coalition's weekly e-newsletter providing

accurate, actionable information for novices and veterans of Government Contracting.

Issue Date: March 5, 2012

Volume 8 Issue No. 10

In This Week's Issue

The Chief Visionary Blog

Simplified Acquisition Spotlight

News You May Have Missed

New and Renewed Members Update

Upcoming Events by The ASBC

Greetings!

Hope you had a great weekend!

Please take a moment to stop by the News You Missed section to learn about:

why ManTech is being sued by a small business;
the Air Force's plan to acquire 1.2 million thin client devices;
how a new piece of legislation will eliminate your ability to correct agency reported past performance reviews;
and more useful information brought to you by GovConChannel to help keep you informed.

Does your company offer language services? Check out the Simplified Acquisition Spotlight below to learn about agency spending for translation and interpretation services that tend to fall below the radar of the usual suspects in the translation/interpretation industry.
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The ASBC offers a portfolio of useful resources primarily focused on helping small companies develop and leverage relevant and timely information and relationships to augment their government contracting efforts. Call us at 800-422-4960, email us, or stop by an event to learn how membership can help you succeed in 2012 and beyond!

Have a productively fantastic week!

Regards,

Guy Timberlake, Co-Founder and Chief Visionary

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

From The Chief

Chief Visionary Blog

found on the web at:

www.chiefvisionaryblog.com

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McCaskill/Webb bill removes 'discussion' from contractor past performance reviews

Last week, FCW's Matthew Weigelt reported on legislation introduced by Senators McCaskill and Webb that eliminates discussions between companies and agencies related to contractor past performance.

As a small business, how would implementation of this change impact your ability to do business? Does such a rule create more opportunity for lobbying activities of larger organizations to influence future acquisition strategies?

Click here for the entire blog.

Peace!

- The Chief Visionary

Acquisition Spotlight

Simplified Acquisition

Spotlight

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Streamlined purchases translate into low-profile, substantive business

While spending for translators and interpreters is most commonly associated with in-theater support for the Department of Defense, there are many other applications for these skills Uncle Sam puts to use every single day.

In fact, last fiscal year, agencies spent nearly $45 million dollars on these services via streamlined acquisitions.

Like to know who did the spending and what they purchased? Like to what they are buying now?

Register for this Wednesday's Business Over Breakfast in Tysons Corner, or join us for an in-person or webinar edition of The ASBCs of Government Contracting.

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Industry News

News You Missed

brought to you by:

GovConChannel

reading the paper

Bill strips contractor reviews from past-performance evaluations (3/1/12)

Washington Technology

IG: DOD errs in verifying small businesses' status (3/2/12)

Federal Computer Week

DISA Internet outage affects Pentagon, others in DC area (3/2/12)

Defense Systems

Air Force considers dumping PCs for 1.2 million thin clients (3/2/12)

Nextgov

VA kills $100M contract at heart of e-health record system (3/1/12)

Federal News Radio

ManTech International sued for breach of contract (3/1/12)

FedBizDaily

Member Update

New and Renewed Members

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Corporate Members

Sektor Solutions Inc., CORE Small Business
Automation Technologies, Inc. CORE Small Business
Eagle Ray, Inc., CORE Small Business
Alpha Omega Technologies, Inc., CORE Small Business
Tucson Project, LLC, CORE Small Business
Webhead, CORE Small Business
Incremental Technology Consultants, Inc., CORE Small Business
InteliTrac, CORE Small Business Applicant

Associate Members

TeAM, Inc.

Individual Members

Chris Strasser, Transparent Technologies Solutions, LLC
Richard Jones, TISTA Science & Technology Corporation

Portal Sponsors

Jonathan Levin, L2 Federal Resources, LLC

Government Members

* indicates renewal

** indicates Founding Member

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

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The ASBC

This Week's Events

Wednesday, March 7th

Business Over Breakfast

7:30AM in McLean, VA

Friday, March 9th

SBINT/Cyber Monthly Meeting

8:00AM in Columbia, MD

>>MEMBERS ONLY EVENT<<

Upcoming Events

Thursday, March 15th

Why Service Contract Inventories Mean Business!

2:00PM, Webinar

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