SBA handed out honors at its annual Small Business Week in Washington.

This year’s winners are:

· Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year:  Denco Inc. of New Mexico began in 1997 as a two-person home-based welding company. It has grown to become a general construction firm, woman-owned, small disadvantaged facility management and specialty construction company with 71 employees and more than $22 million in revenues. Denco will graduate from the 8(a) program in June. Its clients include the Navy, Air Force, Army, NASA, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Northrop Grumman, Toltest Inc., New Mexico State University, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and Enterprise

· Small Business Subcontractor of the Year:  Management Solutions LLC of Tennessee is a woman-owned project management services company specializing in project management/control services, project management training, construction management, information systems application/integration, process improvement, and cost estimating services. Since 2002 it has provided project management support for scientific, national security and infrastructure projects at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The company developed Oak Ridge’s project management system, procedures and software solutions, and trained Oak Ridge’s lab personnel. It has grown from three employees to 40 and from a contract valued at $8,000 to more than $18 million. It also holds subcontracts from the Department of Defense and various commercial firms. 

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence, recognizing large prime contractors that have excelled in utilization of small businesses as suppliers and subcontractors. The recipients are:
· Centennial Contractors Enterprises Inc., of Reston, VA; Mark Bailey, president & CEO (Construction Category).

· ITT Information Systems of Herndon, VA; Mike Wilson, CEO (Research and Development Category).
· Environmental Chemical Corp. of Burlingame, CA; Glenn Sweatt, general counsel (Services Category).

The Frances Perkins Vanguard Award, honoring government and industry for excellence in the use of women-owned small businesses as prime contractors and subcontractors.  The recipient is:
· John Woolery, president and general manager of Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Pantex LLC, of Amarillo, TX.

Surety Bond Award, honoring a participating surety company or bond producer for excellence in supporting small businesses that need help securing bid, payment and performance bonds.  This year’s recipient is: 
· Michael D. Williams, president and CEO, CCI Surety Inc., Golden Valley, MN.

Victoria Tifft, president and CEO of Clinical Research Management Inc., of Hinckley, OH, was named 2012 National Small Business Person of the Year. ClinicalRM helped create and today manages the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research’s Clinical Trials Center. The Center develops vaccines for infectious diseases such as malaria and E. coli.