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Miami Business Services
28 North Main
PO Box 1525
Miami, OK 74355

Government Contracting
Mr. Gary Shelton
918.541.2195
gshelton@mn-e.com
Govt. Bid Request.

Retail Sales
Sandy Hedger
918.542.1300
shedger@mn-e.com
Retail Bid Request.

MBS is Tribally-owned 8(a) Certified

The Small Business Administration 8(a) program is a business development program that is an essential instrument for helping socially and economically disadvantaged businesses to compete in the American Economy and access the Federal procurement market.

Benefits of the Program for both the client and the contractor:

  • Participants can receive direct award contracts. The SBA helps firms to build their competitive and institutional know-how; the agency also encourages them to participate in competitive acquisitions.
  • Federal acquisition policies encourage Federal agencies to aware a certain percentage of their contacts to SDBs. To speed up the award process, the SBA has signed Memorandums of Understandings (MOUs) with 25 Federal agencies allowing them to contact directly with certified 8(a) businesses.
  • The SBA recently made changes to permit 8(a) businesses to from joint ventures and teams to bid on contracts. This enhances the ability of 8(a) businesses to perform larger prime contracts and overcome the effects of contact bundling, the combining of two or more contracts together into one large contract.

Submit a Bid Request The SBA 8(a) program requires a business to maintain a balance between its commercial and government business. The overall program goal is to graduate businesses that will go on to thrive in a competitive business environment. For more information on the SBA 8(a) program, please contact www.sba.gov/8abd.