Defense authorization bill allows sole-source contracts for WOSBs

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Supporters of women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) are cheering a provision that Congress included in the annual national defense authorization bill that gives the women owners of small firms access to sole-source federal contract awards.

“In the end, we won,” Ann Sullivan, government relations director for Women Impacting Public Policy advocacy group, said in a statement. “Women business owners won.”

As it has done in recent years, Congress inserted a handful of non-defense-related small business provisions into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of fiscal 2015, which passed Congress last week and is expected to become law shortly.

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