Small Business Participation Procurement Programs

6.0 SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION ROCUREMENT PROGRAMS

PREAMBLE

LYCEUM Network Integration & Professional Services, LLC provides commercial products and services to the Federal Government. We are committed to promoting participation of small, small disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses in our contracts. We pledge to provide opportunities to the small business community through reselling opportunities, mentor-protégé programs, joint ventures, teaming arrangements, and subcontracting.

COMMITMENT

	To actively seek and partner with small businesses.
	To identify, qualify, mentor and develop small, small disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses by purchasing from these businesses whenever practical.
	To develop and promote company policy initiatives that demonstrate our support for awarding contracts and subcontracts to small business concerns.
	To undertake significant efforts to determine the potential of small, small disadvantaged and women-owned small business to supply products and services to our company.
	To insure procurement opportunities are designed to permit the maximum possible participation of small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned small businesses.
	To attend business opportunity workshops, minority business enterprise seminars, trade fairs, procurement conferences, etc., to identify and increase small businesses with whom to partner.
	To publicize in our marketing publications our interest in meeting small businesses that may be interested in subcontracting opportunities.