Articles from Set-Aside Alert (January 11, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
8(a) contracts awarded.			1096
Air Force begins consolidating contracting shops.			257
Calendar of events.		Calendar	652
Cascades Technologies, an 8(a) firm, has won a $3.5 million contract to manage USA.gov.		Brief article	56
Deidre Lee, chief acquisition officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.			48
DLA has awarded a series of regional IDIQ contracts for support of fire and emergency services at military installations and other federal agencies.			240
DOD official backs dialogue with industry.			175
EOD Technology Inc.			93
Fay Ott was named SBA associate administrator for government contracting and business development.			51
Five companies have agreed to pay more than $800,000 to settle charges that they made false claims.		Brief article	120
Golden Manufacturing Co.			45
Harbor Offshore Inc., Ventura, CA; Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc., Portsmouth, Va.; and GPA Technologies Inc., Ventura, CA, are being awarded a combined total of $39,958,618 under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price multiple award contracts (N68711-05-D-0017/ 0018/0019) to exercise option year three for waterfront barrier maintenance/repair worldwide.			121
Newly certified 8(a)s.			892
Procurement leftovers on Congress's plate.			450
SBA draws fire over women's set-aside.			703
SBA is considering a request to waive the nonmanufacturer rule for All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, NAICS code 335999, product number (6250).			39
SDVs to get DHS set-aside for services.			156
Trans. Security gets new rules on procurement.			178
Two defense contractors and a Baltimore businessman have been charged with a conspiracy to rig bids on military fuel contracts.			85