Contract bundling soared more than 2,000 percent under the Trump administration, displacing hundreds of businesses. Then it reached a 10-year-high under Biden.

BY MELISSA ANGELL, POLICY CORRESPONDENT @MELISSKAWRITES

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If LaJuanna Russell had to guess, she’s missed out on hundreds, if not thousands, of federal contracts throughout her career as a small federal contractor. And it’s not for a lack of expertise.

Russell’s familiarity with what insiders dub govcon dates to the 1990s, when she worked at a number of federal contractors after graduating from college. By 2005, she’d decided to start her own. With Business Management Associates, out of Alexandria, Virginia, the entrepreneur provides HR services and data analytics to the government. Her firm, which sits “side by side the federal HR workers,” includes managing job descriptions and ensuring that the federal security classifications assigned to roles make sense.

The government apparently needs a lot of help with HR—BMA hit Inc.’s list of the........

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