Small Business Plans

Vision, Objectives & Goals

Subcontracting Plans

Vision

The vision of this initiative is to contribute to promoting most favorable relationship possible between the federal agency sponsors of research and North Carolina State University by the timely development and submission of Small Business Subcontracting Plans.

Objectives

• To blend existing processes with whatever new methods are necessary to create the symbiotic relationship between all the University activities involved to make the vision a reality. At a mimimum, the University must: (1) set reasonable goals acceptable to the Federal Government; (2) develop ways of attempting to achieve the goals beginning at the proposal writing stage; and (3) track performance.
• To foster an information flow between the various activities at the University that have a part in the required planning, formulating, negotiating and reporting on subcontracting with Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), and Women Owned Small Business (WOSB).

Goals

Evidenced by the growing number of Small Business Subcontracting Plans that have been successfully executed to date, we can put them in place when required. However, these early accomplishments have made it very clear, as the numbers of these plans increase, that much in the present process inhibits acceptability, timeliness and cost/time effectivity. Accordingly, in an effort to improve the University response to this federal requirement better connectivity between the activities involved and some changes in the sequence events in the process must be brought about.

1.1 Goal 1: To Assure Understanding of the Requirement by Research Faculty
1.2 Goal 2: Establish a Process by which Research Faculty Offices can seek Small Business or State Contract source information for their requirements.

Actions Taken

1. Review the present process for its strengths and soft areas.
2. Decide on who the participants are and engage them in building a proposed method of developing such a multi-year plan, and the internal processes and procedures for achieving the plan’s goals.