Small Business Administration HUBZone Program: Discussion and Debate
Published on 7. January 2019
116 pages
978-1-62100-743-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including the Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program. The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program "whose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities. It provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty rates, or high unemployment rates with contracting opportunities in the form of "set-asides," sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. This book examines the arguments presented both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas within specified characteristics, as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics and discusses the HUBZone program''s structure and operations.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Small Business Administration HUBZone Program*
- Summary
- The HUBZone Program
- Targeting Assistance to Geographic Areas
- Discussion
- The Debate over HUBZones
- HUBZone Areas Defined
- Qualified Census Tracts
- Qualified Non-metropolitan Counties
- Qualified Indian Reservation/Indian Country
- Military Bases Closed under BRAC
- Difficult Development Areas
- Redesignated Areas
- HUBZone Businesses Defined
- HUBZone Federal Contracting Goals
- Congressional Issues
- Program Administration
- SBA's Office of Inspector General Audits
- GAO's Audits
- Legislation
- Performance Measures
- Legislation
- The 2010 Decennial Census
- Legislation
- Concluding Observations
- End Notes
- Chapter 2
- Small Business Administration: Undercover Tests Show Hubzone Program Remains Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse*
- Why GAO Did this Study
- What GAO Found
- Abbreviations
- Background
- SBA's HUBZone Certification Process Remains Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse
- Fictitious Application 1
- Fictitious Application 2
- Fictitious Application 3
- Fictitious Application 4
- SBA Has Taken Some Actions on the 29 HUBZone Firms Previously Investigated by GAO
- Corrective Action Briefing
- End Notes
- Chapter 3
- HUBZone Program: Fraud and Abuse Identified in Four Metropolitan Areas*
- Why GAO Did this Study
- What GAO Recommends
- What GAO Found
- Abbreviations
- Background
- Selected Case Studies of Fraud and Abuse Outside the Washington, D.C., Metro Area
- Case Study 1
- Case Study 2
- Case Study 4
- SBA Has Initiated Steps to Address Internal Control Deficiencies but Has Not Incorporated Effective Fraud Controls
- Preventive Controls
- Detection and Monitoring
- Investigation and Prosecution
- SBA Has Initiated Some Enforcement Actions Against 10 HUBZone Firms Previously Investigated by GAO
- Conclusions
- Recommendations for Executive Action
- Agency Comments and Our Evaluation
- Appendix I: Additional Case Studies of HUBZone Firms That Did Not Meet Program Eligibility Requirements
- Appendix II: Comments from the Small Business Administration
- Appendix III: Staff Acknowledgments
- End Notes
- Index
- Blank Page
