Our work with small and minority-owned businesses
Booz Allen believes in contributing to the communities in which we work and in helping their citizens obtain a fair share of available economic opportunities. Small and minority-owned businesses make important contributions to our work by enhancing our competitive edge and our performance on specific contracts. They also play a critical role in the future of the global economy.
As our markets across the nation continue to grow, we’re working to increase the number of small businesses that can qualify for teaming and subcontracting opportunities with the firm.
Is Your Firm a Small or Minority-Owned Business?
The Small Business Office is Booz Allen’s liaison to the small business community, including:
- Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB)
- 8(a) firms
- Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone)
- Woman-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB)
- Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB)
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB)
- and any other type of small or minority-owned business
How to Register with Booz Allen
As part of our corporate commitment, we routinely seek small businesses to supplement our in-house professional, technical, and support capabilities, and we enter into mutually beneficial teaming arrangements.
If you are a small business interested in conducting business with Booz Allen, please register your business in our database.
How Booz Allen Reaches Out to the Small-Business Community
Booz Allen sponsors and actively participates in various small business industry events every year. These forums offer small businesses an opportunity to network and market their products and services, and have resulted in many teaming agreements for specific procurements that Booz Allen is pursuing. Here are some events that we’ve participated in in the past few years:
- Annual OSDBU Small Business Conference
- DOE Small Business Conference
- Navy Gold Coast Conference
- National Minority Supplier Development Council Annual Conference
- Navy Gold Coast Conference
- Reservation Economic Summit (RES)
- National Veteran’s Small Business Conference
In addition to industry events, Booz Allen is a member of many organizations supporting the global small business community. Our memberships include:
- Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)
- National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
- DOD Mid-Atlantic Regional Council
- TRIAD
- National Veterans Small Business Council (NVSBC)
Through these outlets, efforts to target small businesses, and our long-standing recognition of the contributions that small businesses make towards ensuring enduring results for our clients, we have many small business partnering success stories. For example, in government fiscal year 2020, we subcontracted over $1 billion to our teaming partners. Of those dollars, more than 66% went to small businesses.
Accolades & Recognition
- Rated “Exceptional” by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) as of November 2019.
- The Small Business Administration (SBA) awarded Booz Allen Hamilton with the esteemed Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence for Services in 2019. This award is for excellence within our Small Business program and utilizing small businesses as suppliers and subcontractors in our government work.
- The U.S. Department of Defense Office of Small Business Programs awarded Booz Allen with the prestigious 2020 Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of accomplishments achieved through our Mentor Protégé Program. This is Booz Allen’s sixth Nunn-Perry Award (2005, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018, and 2020).
- The National Veteran Small Business Coalition (NVSBC) recognized Booz Allen Hamilton’s subcontracting performance with Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) by awarding the firm on eight consecutive years, with the Champions of Veterans Enterprise Award. In government fiscal year 2019, 21.7% of our subcontracting went to VOSBs and 14.7% to SDVOSBs.