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SBA Offers Online Training for HUBZone Status Protests
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently introduced another online training module to help small businesses and others to better understand the HUBZone program and status protests.
The HUBZone program aims to help small firms in underserved communities gain access to federal contract opportunities, by promoting job growth, capital investment and economic development in economically depressed areas, in both rural and urban communities, and on Indian reservations.
The new mini-primer, Understanding HUBZone Protests, explains what a HUBZone status protest is, how protests are initiated, who can file a protest, how SBA responds to status protests and how a HUBZone status protest determination can be appealed. This training module is the third in a series of mini-primers designed to help business owners and others – through short, focused learning exercises – to better understand the HUBZone program.
The new training module can be accessed through SBA’s Government Contracting Classroom (www.sba.gov/gcclassroom) and the agency’s Online Learning Center (www.sba.gov/training) where many other contracting specific courses are offered. This course, as well as other training modules offered by the agency, includes a downloadable workbook that reinforces the content in the course.
Training and information options offered by the SBA are aimed at helping small firms benefit from and gain access to the more than $400 billion in federal contracts that are awarded each year.
Small businesses bring competition and innovation to federal contract markets. SBA helps firms benefit from those markets. Visit www.sba.gov for a smarter, bolder, and more accessible SBA.
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