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Matchmakers
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The Council
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The DoD Northeast Regional Council For Small Business Education and Advocacy covers New England and New York. The DoD Regional Councils for Small Business Education and Advocacy are a nationwide network of small business specialists organized to promote the National Small Business Programs of the United States.
Helping Small Business Find Government Subcontracting and Contracting OpportunitiesThe Mission of the Northeast Regional Council is to make the small business programs work in New England and New York. The Northeast Regional Council, which comprises small business officers from Defense agencies and Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, along with defense contractors large and small, created a special High Performance Team dubbed `The Matchmakers' to identify problems in implementing national small business programs and to work aggressively to solve them. One such small business program is the HUBZone program. The HUBZone Empowerment Contracting program was enacted into law as part of the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997. The program encourages economic development in historically underutilized business zones - "HUBZones" - through the establishment of preferences. The Matchmakers found six components that were mismatched (`the hexa-mismatch problem'): contract requirements, suppliers, commodities, agency databases, education and benefits under the program, and the HUBZones themselves. For example, commodities to be purchased were not matched with suppliers who could provide them, and those suppliers were not necessarily matched to HUBZone areas that would make them eligible to participate. Having distilled the problem to its most basic elements, the Matchmakers set out to track down suppliers who could fill the agencies' procurement needs, identify those that are located in HUBZones, educate them about the program benefits, and get them to apply for certification. In similar fashion, the members of the Northeast Regional Council have taken on the rest of the national small business programs and have developed educational materials and presentations, matchmaking tools and events, and a comprehensive networking system to enhance the success profile for all.
Council Profile
DoD
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
Department of Defense Northeast Regional Council
Contact InformationIf you are a federal prime contractor and are interested in participating, please contact our Chairperson, Eva Marie D'Antuono (978) 318-8427. If you are a small business and are interested in the programs of the Northeast Regional Council, please contact the PTAC Office that covers the state or region in which you do business.
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