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Squeezed Out?Is there any room left for small businesses in federal contracting?

ByChris Penttila

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

With the Bush administration opening 850,000 government jobs toprivate bidding and the Department of Homeland Security getting offthe ground, it's the best of times to be a federal contractor.Technology, engineering and outsourcing companies are expected tobenefit from new government projects coming down the pike."It's a good time for small businesses to get on awardschedules," says Bruce Shirk, a government contracts attorneywith law firmPowell,Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLPin Washington, DC.

Or is it the worst of times for small businesses? A recentreport commissioned by the SBA's Office of Advocacy found that51 percent of federal contracts awarded in 2001 were"bundled," meaning many individual contracts were groupedinto one large contract. For the government, bundling increasesefficiency and decreases administrative costs.

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