SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Research on the Economic Impact of Occupational Licensing on Small Businesses
- Notice Date
- 6/6/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Small Business Administration, Office of Chief Finanical Officer- Aquisition Division, SBA Contracting, 409 Third Street, S.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20416, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20416
- Solicitation Number
- SBAHQ-18-N-0002
- Archive Date
- 6/28/2018
- Point of Contact
- John R. Babcock, Phone: 3038447253
- E-Mail Address
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john.babcock@sba.gov
(john.babcock@sba.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This Sources Sought Notice is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the U.S. Small Business Administration. The purpose of this notice is to identify potential qualified Small Business concerns that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein. The U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy welcomes all qualified Small Business concerns with the appropriate qualifications and past experience to submit Corporate Capability Statements that demonstrate their ability to successfully accomplish the goals of the project as listed below. The U.S. Small Business Administration does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses to this notice or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made; no formal evaluation of the information received will be conducted. The U.S. Small Business Administration may later on issue a Request for Proposals. However, should such a requirement fail to materialize no basis for claims against the U.S. Small Business Administration shall arise as a result of a response to this notice. Background: The U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy examines the role and status of small business in the economy and independently represents the views of small business to federal agencies, Congress, and the President. It is the source for small business statistics presented in user-friendly formats and it funds research into small business issues. For more information on the Office of Advocacy, including past research projects, visit http://www.sba.gov/advocacy/847. The research described in this notice assesses the economic impact of occupational licensing on small businesses, entrepreneurship, and the small business labor market across geographic areas such as states and localities. Occupations that require licenses from state and local governments in order to practice have increased from less than five percent of the workforce in the 1950s to over a quarter currently. Additionally, occupations subject to license, requirements and rationales for licensure, and the depth of analysis supporting licensing policies often vary by state and localities. While often enacted to protect the health or safety of the public or to assure the quality of consumers' experiences, a growing body of research questions occupational licensing assumptions, and has found that, in many cases, the current licensing environment imposes a net cost on society without clear improvements to health, safety, and service quality. These costs have implications for the nation's 29 million small businesses in the form of higher prices for the goods and services they use in their production processes due to licensing restrictions, unfilled vacancies due to shortages for workers with licenses, and barriers to entry for some entrepreneurs to enter new markets or move operations across state lines. Overall, these impediments to small business may diminish job creation, competition, and innovation. This research will increase the understanding of the economic effects of occupational licensing on small businesses. Objective: The primary objectives of this research are to: • Review the literature and data available on the economic impacts of occupational licensing on small businesses. • Utilize the appropriate data to conduct a quantitative analysis of the likely effects of occupational licensing policies on small business economic outcomes. • Provide policymaking insight based on the findings of the analysis. The contractor will be responsible for reviewing the current literature and identifying and analyzing, in collaboration with Advocacy, relevant data to develop insights into how occupational licensing policies affect small businesses across different geographic areas, industries, and small businesses of different sizes. Capabilities: The Corporate Capabilities Statement shall address the capabilities necessary to accomplish the objective outlined above as well as the characteristics given below: • Knowledge and experience with data on occupational licensing at the municipal, county, state and/or federal level. • Experience and expertise in analyzing economic data from government sources such as the Current Population Survey, Business Dynamic Statistics, and Statistics of US Businesses to measure the effects of labor polices such as occupational licensing. • Experience and expertise performing quantitative research methods, and writing technical research reports comparable with articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals. • Advanced technical training in applied economic analysis and econometrics, and demonstrated experience as subject matter experts, such as a Ph.D. in economics. Please provide resumes of proposed staff that demonstrate qualifications for key personnel. Submission requirements: Any interested qualified Small Business concern should submit a Corporate Capability Statement, which demonstrates the firm's expertise, past experience, and ability to fulfill the objective described above, to the identified point of contact listed herein. The submission should not exceed 20 pages, excluding resumes. Descriptions of past performance should include, where applicable, the contract name, the contracting agency or department, the total contract value, the period of performance, and a description of the project and how it relates to the work described herein. Responses shall also include the following information: - SBA Small Business Category (i.e. 8(a), HUBZONE, WOSB, Veteran-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran-Owned) - DUNS Number - Point(s) of Contact for your firm with e-mail and telephone number - Please identify if your company offers this requirement through the General Services Administration (GSA) and GSA Schedule Number - NAICS - Confirmation of being "Registered" and "Active" in www.sam.gov The submission must be received no later than 7 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. Any proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to certify that the type and size of their business organization is in line with the requirements of this notice. Any responses to this announcement shall be emailed only to the following contracting representative: John Babcock, john.babcock@sba.gov. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morris Kleiner, "Reforming Occupational Licensing Policies," Brookings Institution, 2015, available at https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/THP_KleinerDiscPaper_final.pdf Carpenter et. al., "License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Licensing," 2nd edition, November 2017, available at http://ij.org/wp-content/themes/ijorg/images/ltw2/License_to_Work_2nd_Edition.pdf.
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