Project Labor Agreements reduce competition, increase costs for taxpayers, and add layers of bureaucracy and red tape to federal construction projects. Creating a formal federal process for imposing these Depression-era mandates on construction projects may be a win for special interests, but it's a loss for workers, taxpayers, and small businesses hoping to compete for federal jobs. NAGC is opposed to forced Project Labor Agreements that have the result of denying federal contracting opportunities to small businesses.
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Recent reports prove the E-Verify system is still not ready for prime-time. It has systemic failures that expose small businesses to severe penalties, even when the business follows the law. The current system punishes small businesses with fines and debarment from government procurement, even when the E-Verify system fails. But E-Verify isn't the only thing that has failed. Our leaders in Washington, D.C. have failed to provide comprehensive immigration reform that seals our border, preventing the flood of illegal immigrants that make these extra burdens on America's small businesses necessary.
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Anti-small business policies cost small businesses hundreds of millions each year in government contract opportunities. Through these harmful policies small businesses are being shut out of the process. Even though Congress passed legislation mandating that all federal acquisitions between $25,000 and $100,000 be exclusively set aside for small businesses, the SBA and the OMB have adopted a policy that has effectively repealed this legislation. The SBA and the OMB exempted any federal acquisition from this mandatory set-aside that is currently on the GSA Schedule. Since 99 percent of what the government buys is on this schedule, what the SBA and OMB have done is overturn a law designed to help small businesses.
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For years, the federal government has failed to meet the provisions of the Small Business Act that require agencies to meet statutory government-wide goals for government contracting. Each year, the contract report required by law demonstrates that agencies continue to fall short of their "goals." NAGC would argue that part of the problem is terminology. A goal implies that there is a direction in which agencies should target their efforts and that they should aspire to reach the established benchmarks.
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