The Small Business Administration’s final rule requires a 24-month average to calculate a business concern’s number of employees for eligibility purposes in all of its programs.
The 24-month calculation applies to all...more
The final rules increase the receipts-based small business size standards for these industries, allowing many businesses to remain a small business for longer or regain their small business status.
The final rules increase...more
The FAR Council’s final rule makes changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation that will materialize over the next decade.
Contractors will have until October 25, 2022 to comply with a 60 percent domestic content...more
President Biden issued a new Executive Order concerning Buy American regulations less than a week after the FAR Council finalized a rule that increased domestic content requirements.
President Biden’s Executive Order...more
The final rule consolidates the two mentor-protégé programs and clarifies and updates many provisions in SBA’s small business procurement regulations.
Small businesses are now required to recertify their size status when...more
While GAO does not make any recommendations in its report, it provides a useful overview of the federal government’s implementation of Section 3610.
Agencies made relatively little use of their Section 3610 authority...more
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The final rule implements the statutory prohibition against self-certification for WOSB and EDWOSB set-aside and sole source awards.
Beginning on October 15, 2020, concerns may no longer self-certify as a Women-Owned Small...more