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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 30, 2003 FBO #0547
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- STUDY FIRM SIZE DYNAMICS OF INDUSTRIES

Notice Date

5/28/2003
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

Small Business Administration, Office of Administration, Office of Procurement and Grants Management, 409 Third Street, S.W., 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 20416
 

ZIP Code

20416
 

Solicitation Number

SBAHQ-03-Q-0015
 

Response Due

6/27/2003
 

Archive Date

7/12/2003
 

Point of Contact

Billy Jenkins, Contracting Officer, Phone (202) 205-7077, Fax (202) 481-0487,
 

E-Mail Address

billy.jenkins@sba.gov
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

Industries tend to have life cycles which are often based on technology. This research would compare new, growing, and declining industries from the perspective of business turnover and competition with special attention to technology and price shocks as they relate to small business. The researchers would most likely need to determine industry ages (or stages), technology levels by industry (possible using changing shares of skilled workers) and product price changes by industry. A potential model would be to determine the factors that affect the industry firm turnover rate, in addition to other potential models. Industry firm size data is available from the U.S. Census Bureau that could assist with this research (www.sba.gov/advo/stats/data.html, www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb.htm). The dynamic Census data is a potential data source as it contains information on establishment births and closures by firm size in addition to establishment growth and decline information for continuing establishments from 1989 to present with about a two year lag. Another possibility would be using information from Dun & Bradstreet that tracks firms through time. Proposals using the U.S. Census Bureau?s County Business Patterns would most likely not be able to complete this research as it is not a longitudinal database and does not have firm size information. Regardless of the data used, proposals need to present a convincing case for the ability to secure access to data that will complete the project within 12 months. NOTE The Solicitation document will posted 5/28/03 on FEDBIZOPS. No other documents will be issued. Provide four (4) copies of your price and technical data. The latter is to be packaged separately. THIS IS A 100% SMALL BUSINESS SET A-SIDE.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 409 3rd Street, SW, Suite 5000

Zip Code: 20416

Country: US
 

Record

SN00333751-W 20030530/030528213712 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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