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How Do I - For Businesses

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Prepare My Business for an Emergency

DHS/FEMA sponsors a “Ready Business” resource to help businesses develop a preparedness program to create a plan for the impact of many hazards.

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Great News: DHS Mentor-Protégé Program Relaunches!

The Mentor-Protégé program is designed to motivate large business prime contractor firms to provide developmental assistance to many types of small businesses.

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Mentor-Protégé Companies

The mentor-protégé program encourages large business prime contractor firms to provide mutually beneficial developmental assistance to small businesses.

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Prime Contractors

Large business Prime Contractors who are interested in subcontracting with small, disadvantaged, women-owned, HUBZone-certified, 8(a), veteran-owned businesses.

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Small Business Specialists

Individuals listed provide advice to small business owners on individual procurement opportunities and how to do business with their individual components.

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How to do Business with DHS for Small Businesses

We offer the following general suggestions for consideration as you develop and implement your marking strategy with DHS’s small business specialists.

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Procurement Events

Procurement events include: conferences, meetings, outreach sessions or symposiums, attended or sponsored by Homeland Security procurement officials.

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Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Staff

The primary role of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is to promote and develop strategies for small business participation in the DHS contracting program while adhering to federal small business regulations and ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion in the procurement process.

Contacts listed below can provide overall information on the Department of Homeland Security Small Business program. These individuals generally do not make purchases for the organization.

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Small Business Vendor Outreach Sessions

Each FY DHS-OSDBU, as part of the Small Business Outreach Program, conducts 10 sessions of 15-minute pre-arranged virtual meetings with small businesses.

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Open for Business - Frequently Asked Questions

These are questions business owners frequently have regarding their company and the Department of Homeland Security.