minority contractors

[steve82]

<p>I posted this in M&L. rather than the overtly political thread because a lot of us who actually work for NASA and government contractors hang out here.&nbsp; A court just overturned the DOD rule that 5% of contracting dollars have to go to minority contractors:</p><p>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081106/defense_contracts_minority_firms.html?.v=1</p><p>This could have far-reaching implications.&nbsp;&nbsp; All NASA contracts have a certain percentage set aside for special small, disadvantaged, women-owned, or minority contractors.&nbsp;&nbsp; On a number of occasions, I've seen people (including myself!) who worked for well-integrated diverse established primes be forced to leave their employer and perform the same job working for a minority small disadvantaged business.&nbsp; This is just to meet a government quota and has little to do with accomplishing real social change because the primes have already done it.&nbsp; In most cases it costs the government a lot more to do business this way.&nbsp; The companies are often shells or minority in name only,&nbsp; with a figurehead president who is more often than not the wife of the white male who started the business.&nbsp;&nbsp; Does anyone else have experience dealing with these entities?</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

 

[3488]

<p><font size="2"><strong>Hi steve82.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Just moved this to SB&T as I think that you will get more space related business orientated responses here, than in M&L.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong> Perfectly good & valid topic, but think it is better here.<br /></strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>