Goals + Objectives

Goals

Over the next 10 years our country will spend $1.2 trillion to revitalize America’s infrastructure. It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to upgrade roads, bridges, airports, provide clean water, fix our failing electrical power grid, and bring broadband to rural communities. It’s a good plan, and it is exactly the sort of work our companies perform every day.  


The 10+10 GROUP has come together because we are faced with a dilemma – our firms are simultaneously too small and not small enough to participate. Let us explain.


According to federal contracting guidelines our companies are too small to compete for the big project opportunities, and too big to qualify as subcontractors for these same projects. While the multi-billion dollar firms that dominate the infrastructure marketplace are anticipating a windfall, we could easily be shut out of this national effort. 

Objectives

We want a chance to participate, to grow our companies, to create more jobs while stabilizing our communities. We are asking for a seat at the table.

  1. Increase market awareness of infrastructure related firms that have exceeded federal small business size standards.
  2. Recruit more 10+10 Group members from all regions of the U.S.
  3. Recruit major prime construction, construction managers, engineering and architecture and additional professional service firms to provide public endorsement of 10+10 Group members’ goals and objectives – a public recognition of the historic relationships and added value that our firms have already demonstrated in our respective fields
  4. Encourage federal, state, and local funding agencies to expand the pool of eligible professional service firms engaged in infrastructure-related work to include mid-sized firms like ours, while creating contracting goals and accountability
  5. Encourage the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to make significant adjustments to its size standards and personal net worth ceilings to accommodate a mid-sized business category – changes that would reflect the historic nature of the opportunity to grow and scale minority and women-owned businesses.
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