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Opportunities If you are a business interested in doing business with the U.S. Federal Government, you must be registered in the CCR. The Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is the primary registrant database for the U.S. Federal Government. Registrants are required to complete a one-time registration to provide basic information relevant to procurement and financial transactions. Registrants must update or renew their registration at least once per year to maintain an active status.
CCR validates the registrant information and electronically shares the secure and encrypted data with the federal agencies’ finance offices to facilitate paperless payments through electronic funds transfer (EFT). Additionally, CCR shares the data with federal government procurement and electronic business systems.
Entering your small business profile data into CCR allows you to populate the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Supplemental Pages, known as DSBS, where your business information and capabilities statements can be viewed by contracting officers, large prime contractors, and the general public. As a small business, creating a profile in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and the Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) and keeping it current ensures that your firm has access to federal contracting opportunities, especially those for small businesses.
Please note that any information provided in your registration may be shared with authorized federal government offices. However, registration does not guarantee business with the federal government.
For more information about CCR, please visit the CCR Web site Growing your business? Other opportunities includes helpful information about government contracting and the procurement process, solicitations for small business innovation research projects, information about grants and a link to Fed Biz Opps.
The HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program seeks to encourage economic development in historically underutilized business zones - ”HUBZones” - through the establishment of preferences for award of Federal contracts to small businesses located in such areas. These Federal contracting opportunities will help stimulate economic development in distressed urban and rural communities and on Indian reservations. SBA is responsible for certifying eligible firms, investigating eligibility challenges, and reporting the results to Congress. In order to qualify for the program, a small business firm must be located within a designated HUBZone area. Further requirements are that the firm must be a small business that is owned and controlled at least 51% by U.S. citizens and at least 35% of its employees are HUBZone residents. Please be advised that HUBZones are determined by census tracts which have street by street boundaries. For this reason, we strongly suggest the use of our HUBZone locator system to define the boundaries of each HUBZone. The HUBZone locator can be accessed at the SBA web site (www.sba.gov/hubzone). HUBZones are currently located in the following cities ∓ towns in New Jersey.
On December 16, 2003, the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 (VBA) was passed by Congress. Section 308 of the Act (Public Law 108-183), established a procurement preference program for Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business Concerns (SDVOSBC). This procurement program provides that Federal contracting officers may restrict competition to SDVOSBCs or award a sole source contract where certain criteria are met. The Small Business Administration issued a final rule on March 23, 2005, establishing a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern Program. This program establishes the criteria to be used in Federal contracting to determine service-disabled veteran status; business ownership and control requirements; guidelines for establishing sole source and set-aside procurement opportunities; and protest and appeal procedures for SDVOSBC procurements. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||