Increase Your Businesses Cybersecurity Product Sales to the U.S. Government
- Access Smart
- Closed on
- Target:
- Small Businesses
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.access-smart.com
This petition is closed.
We are encouraging small business owners to sign our petition to make it easier for companies to sell and government agencies to buy cybersecurity products and services.
Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump all claimed that cyber-attacks are our nation’s greatest threat. In response, they all signed executive orders requiring government agencies and departments to beef up cyber security. These orders mandate that all agencies use the cybersecurity standards established by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). While NIST has defined cybersecurity best practices and requirements, they DO NOT define specific products that satisfy those requirements.
Agencies, especially the smaller ones, are having difficulties procuring the equipment to meet those standards. Hackers target these vulnerable agencies to penetrate other agency’s databases.
Cybersecurity procurement codes are essential to secure our nation’s data.
Because the GSA lacks Cybersecurity SIC and NAICS Procurement Codes, agencies must go through the time-consuming process of writing RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs. SMBs have a hard time participating in that process because of the time and cost to participate.
Schedule 70 (GSA) needs to incorporate sub-procurement categories for cybersecurity specific hardware and software from which agencies can easily find and purchase what they need.
We need small business to large multi-national corporations to ask Congress to instruct the GSA to develop cybersecurity procurement codes. Sign our petition today if you want to take part in the government’s demand for cybersecurity solutions.
The Increase Your Businesses Cybersecurity Product Sales to the U.S. Government petition to Small Businesses was written by Access Smart and is in the category Government at GoPetition.