SWCC APEX Accelerator

APEX Accelerators work nationwide to provide businesses with the marketing know-how and technical tools they need to obtain and perform successfully under federal, state, and local government contracts – with the mission of creating and retaining jobs, fostering competition, and lowering costs for the government, and helping to sustain our armed forces’ readiness.

Earn your share of the more than $300 billion the United States Government spends annually on various products and services! Thousands of contracts totaling billions of dollars bypass small firms that do not know about or understand government procurement!

Federal Procurement Goals

In order to ensure that small, minority, woman, and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses get their fair share of federal procurement dollars, the Small Business Administration (SBA) negotiates annual procurement goals with each federal agency and reviews each agency’s results. Procurement goals are established in terms of percentage of annual expenditures.

• 23% of all prime contracts are to be set aside for small businesses
• 5% of all prime and subcontracts is to be set aside for woman-owned businesses
• 5% of all prime and subcontracts is to be set aside for small disadvantaged businesses
• 3% of all prime contracts are to be set aside for HUBZone small businesses
• 3% of all prime and subcontracts is to be set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small businesses