Meet small-biz goals or face consequences, officials say

With half of federal departments missing their small-business contracting goals in fiscal 2006, agency officials and legislators said the solution may be punishment.

“I’m troubled by the fact that there are no penalties here,” Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Government Management, Organization and Procurement Subcommittee, said Sept. 26.

To get agencies to meet their small-business goals, officials who testified said attach consequences.

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