Small Business Procurement Scorecards

A recent post at Black Enterprise about NASA's successful shift from a failing score to an A on the SBA Small Business Procurement Scorecard prompted this post.

The SBA explains their system thusly:

The annual Scorecard is an assessment tool to (1) measure how well federal agencies reach their small business and socio-economic prime contracting and subcontracting goals, (2) provide accurate and transparent contracting data and (3) report agency-specific progress. The prime and subcontracting component goals include goals for small businesses, small businesses owned by women, small disadvantaged businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and small businesses located in Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZones).

The most recent government-wide scorecard grade can be found here.  Individual agency rates can be pulled for the past seven years.