The Senate passed the $42 billion dollar Small Business Jobs Act today in an effort to help small businesses create 500,000 jobs. The bill passed with a vote of 61 to 38 and will now go back to the House for another vote before going to President Obama’s desk. The bill seeks to increase credit [...]
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HUBZone ‘Shall’ Stands
November 20, 2009 – 5:07 pm
The provision to introduce “may” instead of “shall” into H.R. 2647, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, was stripped from the final version of the bill in the first week of October 2009. The final bill signed by President Obama on October 28 2009 did not include the provision that would change [...]
2008 Record Year for Small Business
September 9, 2009 – 2:40 pm
2008 was a record year for small businesses as federal agencies doled out over $93 billion dollars in contracts. While that number is significant, the SBA has issued a report stating that the government failed to achieve their goals when it came to women owned, service disabled veteran owned and historically underutilized business (HUBZone) goals. [...]
HUBZone Language Mandatory
May 11, 2009 – 1:48 pm
On May 4th 2009, the United States Government Accountability Office issued its decision on a protest by Mission Critical Solutions (MCS) of Tampa Florida against the Department of the Army’s sole source award to an Alaska Native Corporation. MCS challenged that the HUBZone statute, 15 U.S.C. § 657a (2006), requires that the procurement was to [...]
Delta-21 Wins FCC Contracts
May 11, 2009 – 1:16 pm
Knoxville, TN – Delta-21 Resources, Inc. has received three competitive contract awards totalling 1.7 million dollars, from the Federal Communications Commission as part of President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The FCC is in the final stages of implementing a congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting and Delta-21 has joined in [...]
Delta-21 VP speaks to Knoxville Fellows
May 7, 2009 – 4:02 pm
Tracey Ingle, Executive Vice President of Operations for Delta-21 Resources Inc, was invited to speak at a meeting of graduate students enrolled in the Knoxville Fellows Program on March 6th 2008. Ms. Ingle lectured on relationship and leadership dynamics that can be applied to both corporate business relationships and personal relationships. Ms. Ingle also discussed [...]
Delta-21 Wins OPM Contract
March 26, 2009 – 6:52 pm
Knoxville, TN– Delta-21 Resources, Inc. has received a competitive contract award from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to collect COLA data for the Nonforeign Area Cost-of-Living Allowance Surveys in Washington, D.C., Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska. OPM Conducts price surveys in COLA areas once every three years on a rotating basis. Other COLA [...]
Congress Passes $787 Billion Stimulus
February 20, 2009 – 4:53 pm
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law on February 17th 2009. According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the bill will cost $787 billion dollars over the next 10 years and will save or create 3.5 million jobs within the first two of those years. In addition to Tax Relief and [...]
Delta-21 Wins DOI Contract – Continues Market Square Revitalization
February 20, 2009 – 3:47 pm
Knoxville, TN– Delta-21 Resources Inc. has received a competitive contract award from the U.S. Department of Interior to study rental and utility data across all 50 United States and the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa and the Virgin Islands. The Interior Department will oversee the $1.1 million dollar contract under a joint agreement [...]