Women Business Owners Are Being Blocked from Fair Access to Federal Contracts

We Must Act Now to Support Economic Opportunities for Women in Business

Action Steps:

1. Most Important: Submit your comments on the proposed regulations for the implementation of the Women's Federal Procurement Program using our online system. You may also submit your comments via fax [place your comments on your business letterhead and fax to the USWCC at (515) 474-5724].
    
2. Learn More: Read the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce Report to Congress titled: Women Business Owners Blocked from Fair Access to Federal Contracts: The Small Business Administration's Seven Year Legacy of Failure and Subterfuge.
   
   
3. Help Us Stand Up for Women in Business: Can you reach out to other women business owners and encourage them to send in a comment letter on this issue? Are you part of a women's organization that can prepare an association comment letter? We'll help you if you will step up now. Contact us here.

Background:

After seven years, the Small Business Administration has finally published a proposed rule to implement the Women's Procurement Program. The SBA wrote this rule in such a way to assure that the intent of the program will not be served. The actions of the SBA and Administrator Preston are aggressively aimed at assuring that the women's set-aside program (devised by a bipartisan action of Congress and signed into law in 2001) will not serve its intended purpose.

Women business owners lose between $5-6 BILLION dollars EVERY SINGLE YEAR as the federal government fails to make its paltry 5% goal for contracting with women-owned small businesses.

The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce has lead the effort nationally to advance federal contracting opportunities for women and hold the SBA accountable for their seven year legacy of failure and subterfuge. 

Remarkably, Administrator Preston has now publicly stated that women's businesses should not seek increased access to contracts because comparing women-owned businesses and male-owned businesses is like comparing "apples-to-oranges."

If you are not fully aware of the details on this important issue, please read our U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce Report to Congress titled: Women Business Owners Blocked from Fair Access to Federal Contracts: The Small Business Administration's Seven Year Legacy of Failure and Subterfuge.

We ask you to step up now - strongly, aggressively, and with passion for advancing economic opportunities for your business. 

Submit your comments today and support economic opportunities for women.

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