Contract Bundling ... Two CEO's Share their views -Felicia Persaud

B. J. Hawkins, President of OFS, ‘the business doctor,’ was one of the many small business participants at the recent National Minority Supplier Development Council conference held previously in Los Angeles. Hawkins, like many fellow minority business owners wanted to know whether contract bundling by major corporations reduced opportunities for small businesses. The Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration actually supported Hawkins’ assumption when it issued a report, ‘The Impact of Contract Bundling on Small Business.’ The report found that “small businesses received only 16.7 percent of bundled federal contract dollars in fiscal year 2001, and 20 percent of all federal prime contract dollars.”

As you may know, contract bundling, “…is the consolidation of two or more procurement requirements for good or services previously
provided or performed under separate smaller contracts into a solicitation of offers for a single contract.”