Southeastern, LED to host contractors workshop Feb. 21
Contact: Rene Abadie
2/7/06
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University’s Small Business Development Center and Louisiana Economic Development (LED) will host a free workshop designed to match contractors with potential subcontractors in Mandeville on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
Scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Castine Center at Pelican Park, the event is designed to provide tools that local businesses can use to secure federal and state government contractors.
“The program is intended to provide an ideal networking forum for prime contractors, subcontractors and governmental agencies,” said William Joubert, director of Southeastern’s SBDC and the Southeast Louisiana Business Center. “One of the difficulties following a disaster like Hurricane Katrina is the problem of linking prime contractors with eligible subcontractors. This workshop is unique because of the matchmaker opportunities that will be available.”
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Castine Center with advanced registration preferred. Contact the Southeastern SBDC at 985-549-3162 to register or for additional details.
In addition to LED and Southeastern’s SBDC, other participants in the workshop include the Louisiana Procurement Technical Assistance Center, the Louisiana Office of State Purchasing, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Small Business Administration, and other government agencies.
More than 20 exhibitors are also expected to participate, including Northrup Gruman, Stennis Space Center, the Shaw Group, Kellogg Brown & Root, Fluor, MWH Americas, Lockheed Martin, and IAP Worldwide.
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