Posts Tagged ‘ Regulations ’

Round One of Advocacy’s r3 Is A Hit

Jan 14th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Regulations

More than eighty federal regulations have been nominated for review by concerned small business owners and small business advocates as a part of the SBA Office of Advocacy’s Regulatory Review and Reform initiative, the agency announced last week. The initiative, nicknamed r3, is another plank of President Bush’s effort to reduce regulatory burdens for small [...]



Contracting Rule Prompts Universal ‘Boo’s

Jan 7th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Regulations

It has been almost seven long years but the SBA has finally published a set of proposed rules to implement the Women’s Procurement Program that has been a bone of contention for six of them. Unfortunately, the SBA studied the RAND Corporation’s research and came to the conclusion that there were only four relatively obscure [...]