by Jake Neilson | Dec 19, 2024 | BLOG
The Final Rule published on December 17, 2024 by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), pertaining to HUBZone and Other Small Business Programs (89 FR 102448), makes several significant changes to how small businesses must handle recertification of size and...
by Hilary Sutton | Dec 10, 2024 | BLOG
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has published a Final Rule that makes several changes to the SBA’s Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program regulations, including adding definitions that are not currently included in the regulations,...
by Trevor Skelly | Oct 15, 2024 | BLOG
GovContractPros (“GCP”) has noticed an increase in scrutiny that Business Opportunity Specialists (“BOS”) are applying to evaluating Business Activity Targets (“BAT”). Beginning in Program Year Five (5) – or Year One (1) of the “Transitional Stage” of the 8(a)...
by Jake Neilson | Sep 30, 2024 | BLOG
9-30-2024 Update This summer, SBA Administrator Guzman announced another moratorium extension on the BFO rule. The Bona Fide Office (“BFO”) Rule requires that 8(a) construction contracts “shall be awarded within the county or State where the work is to be performed”...
by Jake Neilson | Sep 4, 2024 | BLOG
Current 8(a) regulations include numerous provisions that emphasize the disadvantaged individual’s ownership but run counter to common business practices or place unnecessary burdens on business owners. The proposed rule reconsiders several positions that have caused...
by Trevor Skelly | Aug 28, 2024 | BLOG
GovContractPros has learned that the SBA recently issued proposed changes to the HUBZone Program aimed at clarifying comprehensive changes made to the program in 2019. The proposed rule would also make several changes to SBA’s size and 8(a) Business Development...
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