Blazing through the black hole of procurement.
Alaska Business Monthly › Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, January 1999
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Small Business Administration helps Alaskan businesses secure government contracts
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Blazing through the black hole of procurement.
SECURING GOVERNMENT BID CONTRACTS ISN'T AS DIFFICULT AS ONE MIGHT THINK.
When a $1.4 million federal project to remove pipe at Elmendorf Force Base came up for bid last year, Weldin Construction Inc. was poised to get the job-and they did. Likewise for an $860,000 contract digging a dozen 300-foot wells, which will be used to charge the ground with electricity to ward off electrolysis corrosion in steel pipelines that run through base grounds. U.S. Department of Defense contracts like these have boosted the Eagle River-based firm from $2 million in revenues in 1997 to $5 million last year. Owner Dick Weldin is an 8(a) designa...See the full content of this document
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