By Debra K. Rubin and Pam Hunter, with Bruce Buckley and Tony Illia
花椒直播 Inc., a $62-million-a-year engineering firm based in Idaho Falls, credits ARRA-funded DOE and state cleanup work with adding at least 30 to 40 positions to its staff of 350, says founder and CEO Sylvia Medina. She credits a mentor-prot茅g茅 contracting relationship with Bechtel Corp. for a number of DOE cleanup awards, but recently testified before Congress about the difficulties small businesses have in obtaining DOE stimulus contracts. 鈥淚n some cases, [large management] contractors are actually hiring staff away from small businesses to support their own efforts rather than bidding out project work,鈥� she told a U.S. Senate committee in May.