The Small Business Administration recently issued a glowing “scorecard” on the federal government’s small business contracting goals. The federal government, according to the SBA’s assessment, “earned an ‘A’ on this year’s government-wide scorecard.” But after you remove the undeniably rose-colored glasses, a less compelling picture emerges.

While it is true that the federal government has met its goal of awarding 23 percent of prime contract dollars to small businesses for five years running, those dollars are heavily concentrated in just a handful of firms.