The Department of Defense (DoD) Mentor-Protégé Program is designed to assist Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDBs) in enhancing their capabilities to satisfy DoD and other contract and sub-contract requirements. This relationship fosters long term business partnerships between SDBs and the mentor. Since 1991, the Department of Defense (DoD) Mentor-Protégé Program (MPP) has offered substantial assistance to small disadvantaged businesses. Helping them to expand the overall base of their marketplace participation has produced more jobs and increased national income.
The DoD Mentor-Protégé Program assists small businesses (protégés) successfully compete for prime contract and subcontract awards by partnering with large companies (mentors) under individual, project-based agreements. Traditionally, these partnerships have delivered a variety of products and services specialized in: environmental remediation, engineering services, information technology, manufacturing, telecommunications, and health care. Recently, new Mentor-Protégé agreements have focused on corrosion engineering, information assurance, robotics, circuit board and metal component manufacturing. The DoD hopes that future Agreements will focus on new technology areas such as radio frequency identification devices and enhanced security assurance.
Many Mentor firms have made the program an integral part of their sourcing plans; while the protégé firms have used their involvement in the program to develop much needed business and technical capabilities to diversify their customer base. Our protégé participants have established long-term business relationships with providers of government and commercial goods and services.
Successful mentor-protégé agreements provide a winning relationship for the protégé, the mentor, and the DoD. The DoD annually recognizes outstanding Mentor-Protégé teams with the Nunn-Perry Award. The prestigious Nunn-Perry Award was named in honor of former Senator Sam Nunn and former Secretary of Defense William Perry. It was first awarded in 1995.
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U.S. Department of Defense | Office of Small Business Programs
http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sb/programs/mpp/index.shtml
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