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SBA serves also as a clearing house for information on products and processes particularly adaptable for exploitation by small firms.

This may be helpful in improving the competitive position of established firms through diversification and expansion or through more economical utilization of plant capacity.

Production assistance

Production specialists are available in SBA regional offices to help individual small business concerns with technical production problems.

These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.

Production assistance often takes the form of locating tools or materials which are urgently needed.

Advice is given also on problems of plant location and plant space.

Property sales assistance

The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal Government.

Under this program, property sales specialists in the Small Business Administration regional offices help small business concerns to locate Federal property for sale and insure that small firms have the opportunity to bid competitively for surplus personal and real property and certain natural resources, including timber from the national forests.