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Williams claims minority-only opportunities “unfair” to others

     Rep. Roger Williams, R-TX, published one of his first statements as the new chairman of the House Small Business Committee with a claim that expanding contracting opportunities for “only minority-owned” small businesses is unfair to other small firms.

      “Democratic efforts focusing primarily on increasing contracting opportunities for only minority-owned small businesses unfairly isolate all other small businesses who also share in the same challenges as minority-owned small businesses and could also benefit from such proposals,” according to a statement on “Key Priorities” issued by Williams on the committee website.

      Williams appeared to be referring to several of President Joe Biden’s initiatives, including raising the Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) contracting goal to 15% by 2025, up from 5% in fiscal 2020. In fiscal 2021, the latest official data, agencies achieved 11% in SDB procurements.

      A large share of such SDB procurements is composed of awards to...more....

     

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