JBSA-FORT SAM HOUSTON –
More than $191 million in contracts were awarded to small businesses throughout the nation during the first quarter of this fiscal year by contracting officials with the Mission and Installation Contracting Command.
"These awards are a direct result of the command's commitment to American small businesses and the attainment of the nation's public policy goals," said Mark Massie, associate director for the MICC Office of Small Business Programs at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
The MICC Small Business Programs consists of personnel around the country who provide aid, advice and counsel to small businesses. In addition to providing advice to individual small businesses, the program also advocates within the command's 33 contracting offices to ensure small businesses have the maximum opportunity to compete for Army contracts awarded by those activities.
MICC officials and small business representatives across the command continue to conduct acquisition forecast open house events at installations throughout the country over the next two months. The JBSA-Fort Sam Houston event takes place Feb. 3 at the Fort Sam Houston Theatre.
Pete Hunter, an assistant director for the MICC Small Business Programs at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, said such events help increase competition for Army contracts, broaden industry participation in Army contracts, and assist small businesses in winning Army contracts.
Dollars awarded to small-business contractors help support the achievement of annual government-wide goals required by the Small Business Act. Small-business directors at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston monitor each small business category throughout the fiscal year to ensure contracts are awarded in each of the following small business categories: small disadvantaged business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, woman-owned small business and historically underutilized business