SBA works for the President. The President is the CEO of the Government. If MPU is not working, then the TOP is where “the buck stops”. We, a group of us who supported Obama, tried to work with the White House on the Small Business Procurement Group.

“The small business procurement group is an informal, ad hoc group of senior agency officials that was established at the recommendation of the Interagency Task Force on Small Business Contracting to give White House Officials and the co-chairs of the Task Force – the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Department of Commerce (DOC), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – an opportunity to meet regularly with senior agency leadership and discuss the steps agencies are taking to increase small business contracting.

Equally important, this venue will allow agency leadership to share ideas on actions SBA, DOC, and OMB can take to help agencies meet their FY 2011 small business goals.

Daniel I. Gordon
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy
Office of Management and Budget

Karen G. Mills
Administrator
Small Business Administration

David A. Hinson
National Director, Minority Business Development Agency
Department of Commerce”

This turned out to be a “DUD”. They simply did not get it done. We “reminded” and “reminded”. We tried to get the White House to get “engaged”, to get things accomplished. They virtually ignored us. They did not meet the Governmentwide goal.

Now, you tell me, WHO are we to blame? WHO is at the TOP?

Hank