Happy Friday, Readers. We hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend. Talk around the proverbial water cooler, this week, has been about the possible government shut down. On midnight, September 30th, fiscal year 23 will come to an end. Apparently, if certain things aren’t passed by Congress and signed by the President, the new fiscal year will start with a shutdown, and that has a lot of government contractors nervous.
We have included some articles on this topic and other federal government news below. Have a great weekend.
- Meetings: Regional Small Business Regulatory Fairness Boards
- DOD Software Licenses: Better Guidance and Plans Needed to Ensure Restrictive Practices Are Mitigated
- Ultima Services asks court to bar SBA’s 8(a) program in the administrative, technical support industry
- SBA accused of sidestepping court ruling on race-conscious program
- FBI to Award Up to $358M in Contracts for Architectural, Engineering & Planning Services
- How contractors are bracing for a federal government shutdown
- Contractors prepare for shutdown or at least an austere October
- Brace for potential government shutdown, federal contractor group warns
- Minority and women business owners learn, compete at Opportunity Inclusive Business Summit
- Government Shutdown: What Government Contracting Businesses Need To Know
- Federal Contracting Program for Women Entrepreneurs Expands
- Guidelines for Reporting Bundled and Consolidated Contracts
- GAO union employees keep flexible work options in new contract
- A messy dispute caught one company for millions of dollars of government refund demands
- CIO-SP4 protest dismissed after NIH commits to corrective action
- Pentagon chooses 8 new ‘hubs’ to lead $2B effort to revitalize US microelectronics
- Navmar to Pay $4.4 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Regarding Double-billing and Cost-Shifting
- U.S. Small Business Administration Acts to Safeguard Integrity of HUBZone Program