Set Aside Alert Offers New MBE Directory

We’ve published numerous articles in our monthly newsletter from Set-Aside Alert over the years. It is the leading newsletter for small businesses that want to succeed as federal contractors. Their daily e-mail of set-aside opportunities tells you who to call and where to look for set-asides for your products or services. To subscribe call 800-845-8420 (301-229-5563) or visit www.setasidealert.com to learn more.

Business Research Services, Inc., the company that publishes Set-Aside Alert, also just announced  that the new 14th editions of the National Directory of Minority-Owned Business Firms and the National Directory of Woman-Owned Business Firms are now available. To order, click here.

Major Event for Resellers on March 27

PVBS, Microsoft  Mid-Atlantic, and Diamond Mind are excited to announce a new seminar for companies that sell products to the Federal Government. Learn how some of the top Value Added Resellers to the Federal Government are using Microsoft Dynamics NAV to improve operational performance and monitor key business metrics. You will also get quickly up-to-speed on new government procurement initiatives including SmartPay2, which starts December 1, 2008.

The seminar will take place at 11:30am on March 27 at the Tower Club in Tysons Corner. To register, send an email to michelle.pycior@pvbs.net or call 703.391.0977. Lunch will be served at the seminar.

This is an exclusive seminar for business owners, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, program managers, accounting and operations professionals at the fastest growing VARs and product companies in the DC Metro Area.  Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an ERP, project accounting, and financial management solution in use by over 60,000 companies around the world.  It meets the needs of fast growing VARs that have out-grown their lower-end, inadequate accounting systems such as QuickBooks or GCS Premier. It is fully DCAA compliant and is the only solution on the market that integrates product and service business lines.

When: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Where: The Tower Club, Tysons Corner, VA
Time: Registration begins at 11am. Seminar begins at 1130am.

To register, send an email to michelle.pycior@pvbs.net or call 703.391.0977.

New Rule: Tax Delinquents Could Face Debarment

This entry was submitted by Warren Corbett, Business Research Services Inc. (Bethesda, MD), publishers of Set-Aside Alert. Subscription information can be found at www.setasidealert.com.

Tax scofflaws could be suspended or debarred from federal contracting under a final rule to be issued this month.

Paul Denett, administrator of Federal Procurement Policy, said “tax delinquency” will be grounds for suspension or debarment. He testified Feb. 27 before the Government Management, Organization and Procurement Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  Under current regulations contractors are required to report only indictments, convictions or civil court findings. A proposed rule published last year would also require reporting of delinquent taxes or unresolved tax liens over the past three years. (SAA, 4/6/07)

“The [final] rule will add conditions regarding violations of tax laws and delinquent taxes to standards of contractor responsibility, causes for debarment and suspension, and the certifications regarding debarment, suspension, proposed debarment, and other responsibility matters,” Denett said.

He testified in opposition to the Contracting and Tax Accountability Act, H.R. 4881, which would make tax delinquency a ground for debarment. He urged Congress to wait and see how the rule works before enacting legislation. The Government Accountability Office has reported that thousands of contractors owe billions of dollars in overdue taxes. (SAA, 6/24/05)

Denett said the Treasury Department collected $60 million in back taxes from contractors in 2006 by withholding portions of their contract payments. He also urged Congress to repeal legislation that would withhold 3% of payments to contractors starting in 2011, as a way to insure tax compliance. He said any withholding provision should be “more carefully targeted on delinquent contractors.” Industry groups have also called for repeal of the provision.

(Set-Aside Alert is published 25 times a year by Business Research Services, Bethesda MD. For more info, www.setasidealert.com 800-845-8420)