Category: H1B Issues - Political
From: Jeff1
Date: 07 Nov 2002
Time: 12:09:32
Remote Name: 207.103.106.101
Recently Reviewed a Proposal for Professional Services from the Federal Government. "The following contract opportunity record has been posted on the FAA Contract Opportunities Web Site at "www.asu.faa.gov/faaco/". No attachments are forwarded along with this message. To view the full announcement, please visit the website. Solicitation/Contract No: 2822 As previously announced, the solicitation for the procurement of "TECHNICAL, ENGINEERING, AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES" will be set-aside exclusively for competition among firms that are participants in the FAA Mentor-Protege Program. Prospective offerors are also encouraged to enter into joint-ventures with small businesses, socially and economically disadvantaged businesses, and 8(a) certified firms. To be eligible for contract award, 8(a) certified firms intending to provide proposals for this requirement on behalf of a joint-venture must have received approval by SBA and provide a copy of the approved SBA joint-venture letter at the time of the closing date for receipt of proposals. The approved SBA joint-venture letter must state that the approval applies to this requirement indicating SIR Number DTFA01-03-R-01961." In today's economy we all certainly would be interested in opportunities to work with the FAA or other Federal Agencies. Neither one of the contracting agency or the vendors can do much about the Section 8A deal however. However 50 years of reverse discrimination via government policy is way too long on this deal! Many American small business and Professionls are locked out the Federal business with these restrictions. When one looks at the goverments own Anti-Trust laws www.ftc.gov and examines the Clayton-Rayleigh Act it clearly states that exclusive ties and dealings and steering of competition is not an acceptable business practice. Yet Section 8A Business does exactly this as was said in the proposal statement. Exclusive dealings => Only with Section 8A firms. Encourage others to team up with them => Steering of competition. We have weakened our immigration laws to allow many people into the country. They are then given the advantage of Section 8A business deals While the Americans here are excluded from the business but expected to foot the bill! With respect to the H1-B Visa Issue 65% of this labor is from India. Back in the 1960's IBM and Unisys wanted to sell Mainframes to India. To allow this to happen the Federal Acquistion Regs (FAR) were changed to incorporate people of Indian descent to be given preference to winning Federal business via Section 8A Minority business after they become US citizens....This policy again shows the problems that our own taxes are used against Americans... The Governmental and Corporate entities have been excluding American Middle Class business for years at this time we are unfortunately feeling the impact in the US Economy. Our own Federal Policies here do great harm to the innovation and creativity of Small American Business...The solution is to form PACS to oppose these actions in the government. If you see future opportunites evolve without this exclusion of American Small Business from FAA Procurement opportunities this would certainly be appreciated.
[_borders/H1BDiscussions_aftr.htm]Category: H1B Issues - Employment
From: pal
Date: 20 Apr 2005
Time: 20:53:18
Remote Name: 147.154.235.53
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