SERVICE #4: Small Business Opportunities

IMPROVING SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Other Information:

Overview: The NASA Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) mission is to ensure maximum practicable opportunities for small businesses to be awarded NASA contracts. To accomplish this mission, OSBP provides training to the NASA workforce on small business practices, reviews all NASA requirements for possible set-­‐aside to small business, provides outreach to small businesses to educate them on the federal procurement system and NASA requirements, and provides challenging small business subcontracting goals on all large prime contracts. Challenges: The Congress of the United States has set a goal of 23% of federal procurement dollars be awarded to small businesses. In addition, it has set goals for SDB (5%), WOSB (5%), HUBZone (3%), and SDVOSB (3%). The nature of the supplies and services NASA requires, such as a space launch system, satellites, and research and development, limits our ability to contract with small business and as such make these goals unachievable.

Stakeholder(s):

• NASA Office of Small Business Programs


• Small Businesses


• U.S. Small Businesses: Key Customer Groups: Our key customer groups are the NASA acquisition professionals and the U.S. small businesses as defined by the North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) size standards. In addition, NASA is required to give special consideration to Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB), Woman Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone), Veteran (VOSB) and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB).


• NASA Acquisition Professionals


• North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS)


• Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB)


• Woman Owned Small Businesses (WOSB)


• Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone)


• Veteran Owned Small Businesses (VOSB)


• Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB)

Objective(s):

S 4.1: Feedback

S 4.1 Activity 1: Vendor Data Base

S 4.1 Activity 2: Outreach Events

S 4.2: Best Practices

S 4.2 Activity 1: OMB MAX Website

S 4.2 Activity 2: Small Business Specialist Council Meetings

S 4.3: Metrics and Standards

S 4.3 Activity 1: Small Business Dashboard

S 4.3 Activity 2: NASA Baseline Performance Review

S 4.4: Streamlining

S 4.4 Activity 1: Policy Update

S 4.4 Activity 2: Small Business Technical Coordinator (SBTC) Program

S 4.4 Activity 3: Small Business Improvement Planning (SBIP)

Content