SBA has proposed replacing 980 industry size standards with 338 and changing the method behind them. Comments close September 21. Our tool turns your business experience into two filed comments in about ten minutes.

OMB proposes consolidating forty-six industries into eighteen. Tested against the government's own data: eleven of the eighteen exactly duplicate codes that already exist, and the twenty-eight industries being eliminated carry $29 billion in annual federal obligations.

The FAR Council recently published a final rule dealing with small business certification issues, effective on January 17, 2025. This final rule came about to ensure that certain parts of the FAR and SBA rules are consistent.

The change: Adding additional circumstances that require an awardee to represent its size and/or socioeconomic status for orders placed under a multiple-award contract (MAC) per FAR 52.219-28(c)Post award Small Business Program Re-representation.

Effective Jan. 16, 2025, the United States Small Business Administration (SBA)’s Final Rule will significantly impact mergers & acquisitions involving small business government contractors and investors in the government contracting industry. A September 2024 GT Alert summarizes important aspects of the SBA’s Proposed Rule and discusses key changes that might impact small business government contractors. The Final Rule echoes much of the Proposed Rule’s language and will affect the landscape for small business contractors and investors in the federal government contracting industry.