SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- USAID Women-owned Small Business (WOSB) VOS
- Notice Date
- 10/28/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Agency for International Development, Washington D.C., USAID/Washington, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 7.10-006, Washington, District of Columbia, 20523, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20523
- Solicitation Number
- USAID-OSDBU20141027
- Point of Contact
- Daisy A. Matthews, Phone: 2025674738
- E-Mail Address
-
dmatthews@usaid.gov
(dmatthews@usaid.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) will host a Women-owned Small Business (WOSB) Vendor Outreach Session (VOS) on November 7, 2014, 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The event will take place at 301 4 th Street, SW, in Washington, DC. The OSDBU serves as advocates for small businesses by providing guidance, education, and support to internal and external stakeholders to maximize opportunity while maintaining accountability. The OSDBU provides information to businesses interested in doing business with the Federal Government. The purpose of the VOS is to emphasis the Agency's commitment to broadening its small business vendor base to include Woman Owned Small Businesses (WOSBs) and Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Businesses (EDWOSB) both domestically and internationally. Also, to provide information for WOSBs to become familiar with processes and procedures associated with federal government contracting and USAID; and to identify and pursue contract opportunities with USAID. The objective of this outreach event is to engage, equip, and inform the small business participants of the USAID’s procurement process to enable attendees to become more effective in pursuing contracting opportunities at USAID. Please visit our website for further information regarding the Agency's work at (http://www.usaid.gov/). Participants will have an opportunity to engage other WOSBs and USAID staff in meaningful, relationship-building dialogs to build the formation of new and mutually beneficial business relationships. We invite new small business interested in learning more about USAID to attend this VOS. Please provide registration information upon receipt of this notice, at the following link: https://docs.google.com/a/usaid.gov/forms/d/1ej-z2bWhTIc1BbHJI7ifkkEBxGXOTv0VjzfjZV3OlQA/viewform?c=0&w=1 Registration will open at the posting of this notice and close on October 30, 2014 c.o.b. or as soon as the first 40 registration entries are received. The OSDBU requests that only one person from each business register for this event. All registrants will receive an acknowledgement of receipt via email. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST RECEIVE AN ACTUAL CONFIRMATION FOR ATTENDANCE TO THE SESSION. Registration requests will not be accepted via telephone or through OSDBUVOS@usaid.gov. Please forward any questions that you may have to the following email address: OSDBUVOS @ usaid.gov. Please include VOS - November 7, 2014 in the subject line, so that we can quickly identify and response to your email.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/AID/OP/WashingtonDC/USAID-OSDBU20141027/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, DC, United States
- Record
- SN03559675-W 20141030/141028235531-836b5f8755d912ee2417d39943244aaf (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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