[CPEO-IRF] Small business and Maryland's BRAC

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Will Small Businesses be Left Out in BRAC?

By DAN LAMOTHE
Capital News Service
WTOP News Radio
October 31, 2007

BOWIE, Md. - Closing loopholes that keep small and minority-owned 
businesses from securing government contracts needs to be a priority as 
billions of dollars are spent on the base realignment process, 
Maryland's minority affairs secretary said Tuesday.

Luwanda W. Jenkins, special secretary for the Maryland Office of 
Minority Affairs, told Gov. Martin O'Malley's base realignment 
sub-cabinet that efforts are already underway to ensure small businesses 
are not left out as base realignment construction and services are planned.

"This is where we really need to make sure that small and minority 
businesses have a place at the table," Jenkins said. "We need to be 
making sure these things happen, and that loopholes that prevent it are 
closed."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=598&sid=1283491


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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