Few would disagree that federal contracts set aside for small businesses should go to small businesses — not corporate behemoths. And yet it seems to happen again and again. Take one recent example: in late December, an IT company named QSS, a subsidiary of Dell Inc., landed a small-business contract for nearly $21 million from the U.S. Coast Guard. What’s more, QSS — which in 2006 was purchased by Ross Perot’s “Perot Systems” before Perot was gobbled up by Dell last year — is listed in a … [Read more...]