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Article: Department of Interior Awarded Over $430 Million in Small Business Contracts to Corporate Giants, According to New Study
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- July 17, 2008
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To: BUSINESS EDITORS
Contact: Christopher Gunn, Communications Director of American
Small Business League, +1-707-789-9575, cgunn@asbl.com
PETALUMA, Calif., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 1st, 2008, the
Department of Interior (DOI) Office of Inspector General released a
report, which found Fortune 500 firms were the actual recipients of
federal small business contracts. The report examined three tenths
of one percent of contracts the DOI had reported as going to small
businesses during 2006 and 2007 and found that the agency had
awarded Fortune 500 corporations $5.7 million in federal small
business contracts.