Women-Owned and Open for Business

A letter to government contract officers, program managers and digital services professionals

We are a collection of women-owned small businesses with a wide breadth of expertise in digital services. We are human centered designers, user researchers, software engineers, product managers, security professionals, content authors and business professionals.

We’re here. We’re ready. We’re experienced and hungry.

For many years, we have lived through a scarcity of opportunity for women-owned small businesses in the digital services space. We believe government contract officers are eager to leverage Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) set-aside authority, but are hamstrung by a lack of awareness and stricter standards for sole source authority.

We are a critical component of digital equity.

Business leaders and technologists influence technology products with their personal backgrounds and experiences. Government services must be designed by teams that bring a wealth of perspectives to the fore. On average, our businesses are more diverse. Diverse teams are more effective and innovative.

We want to work with you to remove these barriers and create more opportunities.

We are enthusiastic about the White House’s announcement to increase the overall target for small disadvantaged businesses contracts from 5 to 11%. We are eager to work with you to meet and exceed these targets by making better use of WOSB and EDWOSB set-asides, including exploring what’s possible under existing sole source authority.

As we enter March, Women’s History Month, it has been 63 years since Grace Hopper first designed FLOW-MATIC, a predecessor to COBOL, and 69 years since Katherine Johnson began her work at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a journey depicted in the 2016 film, Hidden Figures.

Women have always been part of computing history.

We seek to be a greater part of the present.