Articles from Set-Aside Alert (October 7, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
8(a) Contracts awarded.		Public Notice	1098
8(a) set-aside.			71
A-76 competitions.			62
Acquisition Advisory Panel shies away from changes in socioeconomic programs.			547
Calendar of events.			789
Congressmen seek probe of procurement policy chief.			503
Contractors were shut out in six public-private job competitions at the National Institutes of Health.			88
FAR councils set IT security rule, other changes.			294
GAO faults new procurement database.			317
GSA Administrator Stephen Perry announced he will leave at the end of this month.			38
GSA also announced the appointment of Washington lawyer David L. Winstead as commissioner of the Public Buildings Service.			41
GSA has named leaders of the business units in the new Federal Acquisition Service.		Brief Article	119
GSA issued a brief but uninformative update on its Alliant and Alliant Small Business GWACs: "GSA's Alliant and Alliant SB procurements are undergoing a brief but comprehensive review.			48
Homeland Security issues EAGLE RFP.		Brief Article	241
Judge wants answers on women's set-aside.			305
Newly certified 8(a)s.		Directory	893
Newly certified woman-owned businesses.		Directory	256
OMB announced the appointment of a career government lawyer, Mathew Blum, to the new position of associate administrator for competitive sourcing in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.			58
OMB pulls back on credit card purchases.			485
President Bush has signed a continuing resolution to keep most federal agencies operating at fiscal 2005 levels in the new fiscal year.			61
Reserved for small businesses.			87
Seeking small business sources.			66
The Coast Guard in Alameda, CA, plans a solicitation for Base Operating Support Services for the Integrated Support Command in Kodiak, AK.			48
The National Science Foundation in Washington is seeking sources for a streamlined competition to provide administrative and technical support.			29