Small Business Government Contracting CEO of Small Business that Provides Service Expansion by Competing for Navy Contracts at a Base Several Miles Away The objective of this study is to examine the scenario of a CEO of a small business that provides a service and business expansion through competing for Navy contracts at a base several miles away. This work will: (1) Determine how the federal government encourages small businesses and how

Cost Allocation in Government ContractsAbstractThe main cost accounting task involves indirect cost allocation to cost items. For allocating these common or overhead, or indirect costs, the basis chosen is cost drivers. Choosing cost drivers proves crucial to the formulation of costing methodology. To enhance allocation credibility and accuracy, the most relevant drivers of cost should be chosen, with two or more of these applied. Hence, the decision regarding the kind

A micro considers the interests and rights of the individual company as the primary concern. Both of these views are valid depending on the lens that one wishes to use. The problem arises when the government is forced to develop policies regarding procurement in this volatile debate. The government must decide whether to take a micro view, favoring the rights of companies, or a macro view that places the

Contract Proposal This paragraph serves as the introduction to this contract proposal report. The contract will be written from the government's perspective as far as the fencing project goes and will cover the seven main points asked for in the assignment parameters. In order, those parameters are the purpose of the federal program and the historical context therein. Second, the small business set-aside program (SBSP) will be evaluated based on eligibility

Because promises are usually kept, it is usually reasonable to rely on a promise, and promises are usually relied upon. (p. 1) Despite its centrality to the human condition, the social practice of promising remains primitive and incomplete in comparison to other disciplines such as mathematics and linguistics (Mather, 1999). When it comes to the promises contained in contracts of any type, there are some general guidelines but these do

Government Intervention in the Steel Industry The Bush administration announced the imposition of sweeping tariffs of up to 30% on steel imports to the United States for a period of 3 years in March 2002 purportedly to save the ailing steel industry from collapsing. Predictably, the action has invited particularly harsh criticism from the U.S. trade partners that have been directly affected by the tax, i.e., the European Union, Japan, and