Comments on: Obama Creates Task Force, New Website to Help Small Businesses http://www.executivegov.com/2010/04/obama-creates-task-force-new-website-to-help-small-businesses/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: My Technology Website http://www.executivegov.com/2010/04/obama-creates-task-force-new-website-to-help-small-businesses/comment-page-1/#comment-128118 My Technology Website Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:24:37 +0000 http://www.executivegov.com/?p=5793#comment-128118 <strong>Read was interesting, stay in touch…...</strong> [...]please visit the sites we follow, including this one, as it represents our picks from the web[...]…... Read was interesting, stay in touch……

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]]> By: Albert Berto http://www.executivegov.com/2010/04/obama-creates-task-force-new-website-to-help-small-businesses/comment-page-1/#comment-9750 Albert Berto Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:35:45 +0000 http://www.executivegov.com/?p=5793#comment-9750 Don't take this the wrong way but I've heard this kind of thing before from other Obama fans.Obama is playing the same game all politicians play... he's no different then the rest of them if you ask me. Don’t take this the wrong way but I’ve heard this kind of thing before from other Obama fans.Obama is playing the same game all politicians play… he’s no different then the rest of them if you ask me.

]]> By: Dan Saucedo, President http://www.executivegov.com/2010/04/obama-creates-task-force-new-website-to-help-small-businesses/comment-page-1/#comment-6459 Dan Saucedo, President Wed, 19 May 2010 20:49:10 +0000 http://www.executivegov.com/?p=5793#comment-6459 Our small business community has major problems in accessing contracts from both the City of Houston and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) which will shortly receive over $950 Million in federal funds for primes for our rail projects, with $350 Million for small business. METRO has allowed the prime contractors and engineering firms to pick and choose the small business subcontractors. The primes are allowed to do this without accountability to our small business utilization plans or the 35% small business participation required. Primes always complain there is not enough small business resources to perform the work. We have actively been addressing this matter with METRO without success. The out of state and out of town General Engineering Contractor and Engineering Primes are taking money from these projects without accountability to small business. Both METRO and the City of Houston are bundling large $50 /$90 /$250 million dollar projects which prevent small businesses from competing. Thus I am requesting President Obama’s help with the Interagency Task Force on Small Business to keep these funds in our community and enable our Small Business Community to manage/monitor these funds. Our small business community has major problems in accessing contracts from both the City of Houston and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) which will shortly receive over $950 Million in federal funds for primes for our rail projects, with $350 Million for small business. METRO has allowed the prime contractors and engineering firms to pick and choose the small business subcontractors. The primes are allowed to do this without accountability to our small business utilization plans or the 35% small business participation required. Primes always complain there is not enough small business resources to perform the work.

We have actively been addressing this matter with METRO without success. The out of state and out of town General Engineering Contractor and Engineering Primes are taking money from these projects without accountability to small business. Both METRO and the City of Houston are bundling large $50 /$90 /$250 million dollar projects which prevent small businesses from competing.

Thus I am requesting President Obama’s help with the Interagency Task Force on Small Business to keep these funds in our community and enable our Small Business Community to manage/monitor these funds.

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