DOD’s effort to help small biz find US investors

      DOD recently launched its online Trusted Capital Marketplace Initiative to help its small and medium-sized vendors find trusted U.S. investors. The online portal is located at https://dodtrustedcapital.force.com/s/.

      The goal of the project is help the vendors obtain capital and to prevent DOD contractors from accepting capital from adversarial foreign firms, which may take advantage of the U.S. advanced technologies in their home countries.

      Contractors may apply to participate. DOD vets both the vendors and the investment firms. DOD officials said 11 investment firms and 128 contractors had signed up as of mid-January, according to Federal News Network.

Read more at:
DoD Release: https://bit.ly/3rGQrYb
Federal News Network story: https://bit.ly/36ZOkXv

CIO-SP4 RFP

      The solicitation for the National Institutes of Health IT Acquisition & Assessment Center’s CIO-SP4 IT solutions and services GWAC is expected to be posted in early March, with bids due in late April.

Read more:
NITAAC annoucement: https://nitaac.nih.gov/cio-sp4

Polaris Small Biz GWAC on Interact

      GSA’s upcoming Polaris small business GWAC for IT service providers has its own community Web page. A draft RFP was issued Dec. 30 with comments due by Jan. 29. Vendors can subscribe to the GSA Interact community to receive all notifications.

Read more at:
GSA Interact blog: https://bit.ly/2Z0lwcW

Inside this edition:

‘Buy American’ gets boost

Guzman intends to prioritize underserved firms in PPP loans

$15 min wage for contractors

SBA entrepreneurial programs continue funding expansion

FBI HQs in play again

Biden cancels 73 rescissions

Using small firms in DPA

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