By the end of this month, money for their companies' Federal contracts will run out.

Four years later in 1989 she started seeking out federal contracts for her business.

At the meeting, he estimated the company's current federal contracts to be worth about $60 million.

But federal contracts, he said, "have nothing to do with political contributions."

The company also won a federal contract in 1997 to provide security for income tax filing over the Internet.

Small businesses are often at a disadvantage when trying to win federal contracts.

Many others work for government contractors, including defense and security firms, which hold more than 15,000 federal contracts.

It is performing reconstruction work in Iraq under a large federal contract.

Companies do not need to have an affirmative action plan in place to bid for or win federal contracts.

It won a federal contract to produce pistols for the military in 1985.