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Stop Contract Bundling To Help Small Contractors, House Panel Told

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

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Small businesses could do more work with the Pentagon if it eases up on the practice of bundling contracts, advocates for smaller contractors told lawmakers. Linda Hillmer, chairwoman of the National Defense Industrial Association’s Small Business Division, told a House panel Monday that while the Pentagon is worried about a hollow force in the military, it should “also be concerned about a hollow small business industrial base.” “One of the acquisition approaches bringing about this hollow small business industrial base…

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