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The Department of Defense and its use of small businesses : an economic and industry analysis / Elaine Reardon, Nancy Y. Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Reardon, Elaine.
- Series:
- Documented briefing (Rand Corporation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Defense contracts--United States.
- Defense contracts.
- Government purchasing--United States.
- Government purchasing.
- Small business--United States.
- Small business.
- Government contractors--United States.
- Government contractors.
- United States. Department of Defense--Procurement.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 35 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2005.
- Summary:
- Congress has directed that 23 percent of direct federal purchases come from small businesses. As the largest purchaser in the federal government, the Department of Defense (DoD) is key to achieving this policy objective. The impetus for this research was to suggest industries that DoD could target for outreach to small firms. This briefing compares DoD procurement from small businesses with non-DoD federal procurement from small businesses, and it documents the prevalence of small businesses in industries DoD relies upon. The analysis suggests industries for possible outreach efforts and concludes that it is more difficult for DoD to reach the procurement goal than for the rest of the federal government because of the nature of the goods it buys, such as aircraft and large weapon systems. The authors of the briefing used the Federal Procurement Data System to study government spending and the 1997 Economic Census to analyze small firms in the economy.
- Notes:
- "This research was conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute"--Page iii
- "Performed for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization in the Office of the Secretary of Defense"--Page iii
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