Sundance CEO September Myres Named SBA Idaho Small Business Person of the Year
September Myres, CEO of Sundance Consulting, Inc., was selected as the 2018 Small Business Administration (SBA) Idaho Small Business Person of the Year. According to the SBA, this award “recognizes small business owners who demonstrate staying power and substantiated history as an established business with at least three years of business operation. Winners must also show growth in net worth and business expansion, increase in jobs and sales, innovativeness of products or services, response to adversity, and contributes to community-oriented projects.”
Sundance is a graduate from the SBA’s nine-year 8(a) Development Program, designed to help small, disadvantaged businesses compete in the federal marketplace. SBA Boise District Director Gary Eisenbraun noted “what a tremendous honor to have the privilege to select September Myres as the Idaho Small Business Person of the Year. She is a great role model for other entrepreneurs to follow. Her hard work and dedication, coupled with passion for what she does, the perseverance knowing that it’s not always easy, and a strong commitment to stay-the-course, underscore what it takes to succeed. It truly is a pleasure to know that the SBA played a part in her success.”
Ms. Myres was presented her award in Washington, DC, as the SBA celebrated National Small Business Week. Winners from across the US and its territories were present. For more information about this annual event, visit www.sba.gov/nsbw.
Sundance Receives Environmental Business Journal Business Achievement Award –
Recognized for Growth and Innovation
Sundance was selected as a recipient of the 2016 Environmental Business Journal’s (EBJ) 15th annual Small Firms (Revenues less than $15 million) award for achievements. Instrumental in propelling the firm’s ongoing success was a contract to provide Formerly Used Defense Site Information Improvement Plan support with the USACE Sacramento District valued at $4 million.
Sundance continues to provide a broad range of environmental services at Fort Wingate Depot Activity and Kirtland Air Force Base, as well as a number of other military installations, under multiple contract vehicles. Equally critical to Sundance’s going success has been the establishment of several key joint ventures, including an SBA Mentor Protégé Agreement with EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., PBC (EA) through which Sundance and EA have collaborated on more than 60 Department of Defense projects and won a number of significant Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts, such as NAVFAC Pacific’s $49-million Natural Resource Management contract for work on Hawaii, Guam, and the Marianas Islands.