The fact is
that their edited report only listed 44 large companies as incorrectly
receiving small business contracts, whereas we know that more than 600
large businesses have been taken off the SBA database in the past two
years.
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship , addressed the issue
in a January 25, 2005 letter to the SBA Inspector General."

About the American Small Business League

The ASBL is a national organization focused on promoting the
interests of the 23 million American companies with fewer than 100
employees.

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Earlier this year, the SBA Office of Inspector General
issued three reports citing misallocation of small business contracts
to large businesses. For more information, please go to
www.

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The report in question was prepared by Eagle Eye Publishers and
delivered to the SBA on November 14, 2003.com

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Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.

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U.S. Small Business Administration Refuses to Release Report Appeals Decision to Ninth Circuit to the ASBL; SBA Withholds Public Document Fails to Fight Frau

Small
Business Administration (SBA) has appealed a ruling by the U. "If there was nothing to cover
up, they would have handed this report over months ago.

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The report draws on analysis of interviews with five IP Centrex service
providers (conducted in Q4, 2004), and with 14 Voice Facility Managed Service
providers (conducted in December 2004 and January 2005). IP Centrex service providers favour a
subscription-based tariff model.

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Topics covered in the report include:

- Source Data
- Overview of Voice FM and IP Centrex Services
- SLA Definitions in Voice FM and IP Centrex Services
- SLA Metrics
- Understanding the Difference
- Market-Specific Metrics
- Voice Quality
- Failure Response Time
- Restore Time
- Billing Turnaround, Reconciliation, and Error Correction
- SLA Conclusion
- Comparing Tariff Structures
- Tariff Components Compared
- Understanding the Reasons for Different Tariff Structures
- Conclusion: Flexibility

For more information visit
http://www. One such change the SBA
is considering is a "grandfathering" clause that would allow large
companies to keep their small business contracts for up to five more
years.

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Drawing on the research material obtained for these major industry
profiles, the new Research Note lets customers examine SLA and tariff
structures side-by-side.researchandmarkets. The SBA report describes how large companies are
improperly winning contracts in the Federal government's $60-plus
billion small business contracting program."
Lloyd Chapman, president of the ASBL, has no question about the
SBA 's reasons for hiding the report."
Next month, the SBA will be conducting hearings at 11 cities
across the country to discuss small business size standards.

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For example, many SLA performance indicators used in the Voice Facility
Managed Services market are not yet available from IP Centrex services .

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The same is true for tariff models. During a recent public comment period, the SBA received
approximately 6,000 comments on the issue, with more than 80% opposing
the grandfathering proposal .

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On December 28, 2004, the
SBA released an edited version of the report, revealing that small
business contracts had been awarded to 44 large corporations,
including Raytheon Co.

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Research and Markets: Australian Voice FM and IP Centrex Services: a Comparison of SLA and Tariff Structures

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, Northrop Grumann Corp. On April 28, 2005, the court ordered the SBA to
release the original report within 21 days, rejecting the SBA's
argument that the report was "predecisional" and therefore protected
by exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act. According to the Inspector General, four out of
six high-dollar small business contracts awarded by the SBA itself in
fiscal years 2001 and 2002 were given to large businesses.

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On the other hand, Voice Facility Managed
Services are likely to take into account many more variables specific to the
customer and the service provided. While the SBA
originally argued that the content was "predecisional," it changed its
case during a recent District Court hearing, telling the court that it
would not release the report on "a matter of principle . He wrote,
"the SBA is fostering an atmosphere that encourages widespread fraud
and abuse in small business contracting.

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It highlights the challenge facing
companies trying to choose between the two service models, with important
differences between these two markets in their approach to Service Level
Agreement metrics and tariff components."
The Inspector General for the SBA has documented fraud within the
SBA since 1995.
"Corruption within the SBA is one of the biggest challenges facing
the government right now," said Chapman.

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com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
Australian Voice Facility Managed Services and IP Centrex Services: A
Comparison of SLA and Tariff Structures is aimed at executives (CEOs, CIOs,
CTOs and CFOs) who need to understand how these two types of services differ
in their handling of the key issues of SLA measurement and tariff structuring.
District Court of Northern California ordering the SBA to release to
the American Small Business League (ASBL ) a draft report on government
contracting.

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SBA officials have wavered in explaining why they refused to
release the original report to the public, choosing instead to hide
possibly hundreds of cases where businesses fraudulently won small
business set-aside contracts, said the ASBL. Testimony
presented at these hearings will be factored into SBA decisions about
restructuring and simplifying size standards. Among our successes , we provoked a GAO investigation
confirming that a majority of small business contracts are going to
large companies; we prompted a congressional hearing into abuse in
small business contracting; we pushed the government to begin
requiring annual recertification for suppliers; we helped eliminate a
federal policy that allowed large businesses to buy small businesses
and keep that small business status for up to 20 years; we forced the
SBA to remove 600 large corporations from the SBA's database of small
businesses; we succeeded in reducing the SBA's Information Technology
Value-Added Reseller size standard from 500 to 150 employees; we
prompted the SBA to propose redefining a small business as one with
100 employees or fewer; and we drove the SBA to change procedures
allowing businesses to file protests against large companies falsely
claiming to be small businesses.

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The Research Note draws on data collected as part of two recent industry
profiles, Australian IP Centrex Services (November 2004) and Australian Voice
Facility Managed Services (February 2005).

Business Editors/Government Writers

SAN FRANCISCO----The U.asbl.

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researchandmarkets.com/reports/c17252 ) has announced the addition
of Australian Voice FM and IP Centrex Services: A Comparison of SLA and Tariff
Structures to their offering.

Furthermore, IP Centrex services frequently include bundling of LAN
management and some amount of customer traffic (for example, a bundled number
of on-network calls).

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In both SLAs and tariff structures, the report finds that IP Centrex
service providers seem to favour simplicity over flexibility. At this early stage of the IP Centrex market, we believe
customers will find it difficult, if not impossible, to derive direct cost and
ROI comparisons between IP Centrex services and Voice FM services. "The release of the SBA's
original report will be a key step in exposing the truth and making
positive changes in small business contracting by the Federal
government.