8-PAC Business News Aggregator

ALJUCAR and Co., 2010 – 2011 ARRA Contract Capture Plan

8vsb@aljucar.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:13:25 +0000

- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - BACKGROUND When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed earlier this year, the stimulus funding became that sparkle of hope in the darkness of difficult financial times for many small businesses. For quite a while, we at ALJUCAR & Co. did not see much in the way of Recovery Act money flowing [...]

To be competitive, all small & disadvantaged businesses must start responding Sources Sought Notices

8vsb@aljucar.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:32:43 +0000

“…solicitations don’t just magically become set-asides, bundled, or generally categorized by happenstance; the decision framework begins being constructed at the time that Market Research is being conducted and Sources are being sought.” – Valerie Coleman, SBA Procurement Center Representative I know we are all busy. In the current economic environment, we are so busy trying to maintain [...]

2010 Congressional Elections: BATTLEGROUND PROVIDES INITIAL INSIGHTS IN THE 2010 ELECTIONS Economy, health care, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and deficit top list of voter concerns

8vsb@aljucar.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:28:31 +0000

MEDIA CONTACT: Nick Massella, GW 202-994-3087; massella@gwu.edu WASHINGTON – The latest edition of The George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a majority of voters (51%) believing that the country is on the wrong track. Their top areas of concern are the economy and jobs, health care costs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the federal budget [...]

THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF HEALTH CARE REFORM ON SMALL BUSINESSES AND THEIR EMPLOYEES

8vsb@aljucar.com — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:05:30 +0000

Small Business Community: As a prominent member of the SMB community on LinkedIn Groups, with a national foot-print, 8-PAC has been given the opportunity to represent the community by submitting questions on health care issues facing SMBs that the White House will answer at a live video chat tomorrow (7/29). If you [...]

8-PAC is Expanding the Conversation between 8(a), Woman, and Veteran Owned Small Business…

8vsb@aljucar.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:30:14 +0000

The 8-PAC News Aggregator was founded for the purpose of aggregating the most relevant information to keep 8(a), Woman, and Veteran owned small business owners informed and to promote broader conversation in order to strengthen our collective Voice. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. On September 19, 2007, we created the 8-PAC Small Business [...]

The “must have” screwdriver for every small business: 4 C.F.R. § 21″

8vsb@aljucar.com — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:04:03 +0000

It is a known fact that Large Firms, or “Bigs“, lobby politicians and government agencies for specific contract opportunities well in advance of their being put out on the street. In the case of “in-motion” solicitations that are about to expire; they may request that certain capability be added to the next-generation version that is [...]

Baseline: Small Business Fundamentals, Focus on Texas

8vsb@aljucar.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:50:53 +0000

The following are the fundamentals of Small Business Enterprise with focus on the State of Texas, the epicenter of our political activity for the next federal, state, and local election cycles. This post will establish abaseline for a series of posts to follow that will be geared around developing a framework for 8-PACs’ go-forward political [...]

Download: Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s questionnaire

8vsb@aljucar.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:09:50 +0000

All You Wanted to Know About Sonia Sotomayor (Click Above to Download) The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has made Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s questionnaire available. The questionnaire was returned just 9 days after Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama. “For context, this is the swiftest questionnaire completion in recent history. Based on the time [...]

The New Normal: Profit vs. Political Motive – we ere to Profit

8vsb@aljucar.com — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:55:43 +0000

Since posting the below facts in regards to the plight of Black-male owned business attempting to do business in leadership disciplines with the Houston Metropolitan (METRO) Transit Authority, we have received many direct responses from various constituents and constituency representatives of women-owned, veteran owned, and majority owned businesses. Some outside conversators offering discrete, but subtle [...]

Houston METRO, …show us what you got

8vsb@aljucar.com — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:01:46 +0000

UPDATE: on CALL TO ACTION: Houston METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY by the Numbers May 22, 2009 On yesterday, I summarily spoke before the Houston METRO board of directors in regards to the undeniable evidence of its anemic procurement activity with local, Black-male owned businesses. The goal was to find out if, in light of this evidence, President Frank [...]