Winter 2006
Director’s Corner
It is with great pleasure that the Office of Small and
Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) shares its
fi rst quarterly newsletter with you. We sincerely hope that
this publication, The Small Business Entrepreneur, will
become a useful tool for information sharing among our
internal and external stakeholders to keep them aware of
our small business goals and accomplishments, outreach
events, and other items of interest to the small business
community and to the Department of Justice (DOJ) staff.
Since becoming the OSDBU Director here at DOJ in
October 2004, I have been extremely impressed with the
commitment of the Department’s senior management,
contracts staffs and program staffs to increase opportunities
for Small, 8(a), Small Disadvantaged, HUBZone, Woman-
Owned, and Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small
Businesses. I have also been impressed by the quality
of performance of our small business fi rms as well as the
commitment of our large business contractors to utilize
small businesses as subcontractors. Between fi scal year
2004 and fi scal year 2005, we saw our small business
accomplishments nearly double for 8(a)s, Woman-Owned
Small Businesses, and Service Disabled Veteran-Owned
Small Businesses. While we still need to work a little
harder to meet some of our small business goals, we are
making improvements and I have every reason to believe
that we will continue to see increases in areas where we
are not currently meeting our goals.
You might ask the question, well why do we even have
a small business procurement program? The reason
is because of the vital role small businesses play in our
national economy. In fiscal year 2003, for example,
businesses with fewer than 500 employees represented
about 99.7% of all employers in America. And these
businesses employed about half of all private sector
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Ten Steps to Being a Successful DOJ Small Business
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DOJ OSDBU Small Business Goals & Accomplish