This week U.S. Senators
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
introduced legislation to encourage women’s business ownership and give
women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) more opportunities to win federal
contracts. The National Women’s Business Council released the following
statement in support of The Women’s Small Business Procurement Parity Act of
2014:
“Women’s economic parity must continue to be at the forefront of policymakers’
efforts to move our economy in the right direction. Women-owned small businesses
contribute significantly to our country’s economy. Policies such as the Women’s
Small Business Procurement Parity Act will enable women small business owners
to significantly increase their contracting competitiveness, enhance their
business and economic stability and further fuel their ability to contribute
jobs to our economy. Economic stability isn’t a women’s issue, it’s an economic
issue,” said NWBC Chair Carla Harris. “In order to spur economic growth,
there must be a continuation of innovative polices like the Women’s Small
Business Procurement Parity Act to support the rapidly growing population of
women entrepreneurs, who are leading our country in entrepreneurship.”
The Women’s Small Business Procurement Parity Act would support additional
contracting for WOSBs by removing the sole-source authority restriction on the
WOSB procurement program to give it parity with other small business federal
contracting programs and help meet the 5 percent WOSBs contracting
goal. The National Women’s Business Council commends Senators Shaheen,
Cantwell, and Gillibrand for making women’s procurement parity a priority, and
encourages lawmakers to provide the necessary resources to both implement and
ensure parity across the board and throughout government contracting programs
supporting small businesses.
For press availability for the NWBC Chair on the topic of women’s procurement
parity, please contact Krystal Glass at Krystal.Glass@nwbc.gov
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