Tell SBA how its proposed size standards could affect your business.
SBA is proposing new size standards and a new methodology for setting them. It is vitally important that you file comments detailing how this would affect your business. SBA decides this from the record in front of it. If firms like yours do not describe the effect, no one else will. To place your evidence in both records, file two separate comments.
- We show you exactly what SBA proposes for your industry
- You tell us where you stand, and we ask only the questions that fit your position
- We may ask one or two follow-ups to sharpen your strongest points
- We write both comments for you to review, edit, and file
Which industries would SBA put in your group?
Today your industry has its own six-digit size standard. Under this proposal it would no longer be measured on its own. Your six-digit industry would be folded into the broader group below, and every industry in that group would share one size standard — the same ceiling, applied identically, with no separate treatment for yours. Your industry is highlighted.
Before anything else: how do you view this proposal for your industry?
Your answer decides which questions we ask next. There are no wrong answers here, and you can come back and change it.
Your business experience is the evidence SBA needs.
SBA has not shown the market analysis behind this proposal. What goes into the record is what businesses put there. Only you can tell SBA:
- Who you actually bid against, and who you never see
- What a much larger competitor can do that your firm cannot
- What your company committed — hiring, systems, equipment — expecting today's rules
- What would change for your business if this takes effect
One real example beats a page of general argument. Write roughly — typos and fragments are fine. We will shape it.
Put your name on it
This appears in the public comment. Your name and address are attached by this page after the comment is written — they are never sent to the writing service.
SBA accepts anonymous comments, and your evidence still counts. But a comment signed by a real business in this industry carries more weight with reviewers than an unsigned one, so use this only if you need to.
Two quick things that would make this stronger.
These are the places where one more detail would turn a good point into evidence SBA can weigh. Answer what you can — every one is optional.
Read both comments before you file them.
Why two comments?
One docket is about the standard SBA proposes for your industry. The other is about the method used to group industries and calculate those standards. The same experience speaks to both, framed for each record.
Prefer to prepare these yourself with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?
Copy the packet below and paste it into whichever assistant you use. It contains your answers, the verified SBA figures for your industry, and complete instructions.
Expect it to ask you a question or two first. The packet tells the assistant to check your answers for gaps before it writes anything, so answer whatever it asks — that back-and-forth is what makes the letters strong. When it gives you the two letters, paste each one into the boxes above and file normally.
- Every number. If a figure appears that you did not write, delete it. Assistants fill gaps with plausible-sounding numbers.
- Your position sentence, word for word, near the top of each letter.
- No claims about your business you did not make — customers, contracts, agencies, awards, years, employee counts.
- No salutation or signature in the body. This page adds your name and address at the end; a second one looks careless in the record.
File your comments for two federal dockets.
Complete Filing 1, come back here, then complete Filing 2.
Docket: SBA-2026-0199
Start here. This filing addresses the size standard SBA proposes for your industry.
Docket: SBA-2026-0265
Come back for this. Copy Filing 2 fresh before you file it.
Thank you for making your views known.
Your filing receipt is below. Save the complete package with your business files.
What is happening, and where the Chamber stands — read this first
What SBA is proposing
SBA is proposing a substantial restructuring of the size standards used to determine which businesses qualify as small. Instead of relying only on separate six-digit industry standards, the proposal places many industries into broader groups and applies one proposed size standard across the industries inside each group. For some industries, SBA would also change the measure used to determine size.
That can change more than a number on a table. A higher or broader standard can change which firms qualify as small, who competes for small-business federal opportunities, and the competitive environment businesses planned around when they invested in federal contracting.
Why the Chamber is engaged
The Chamber supports evidence-based adjustments when market conditions justify them. Our focus is whether broad groupings and size ceilings accurately reflect the individual industries inside them, and how the resulting competitive pools affect small firms seeking to enter, grow, and compete in the federal marketplace.
SBA's national datasets cannot tell it which firms you actually bid against, whether businesses in another industry really compete for the same work, what scale advantages matter in your market, or what your company invested in order to participate. Only you can.
Filing 1 — Proposed Size Standards · SBA-2026-0199
This docket is about the standards SBA proposes to apply to industries, including the proposed threshold and, where applicable, the measure used to determine whether a business is small. Your comments about the practical competitive effect of the proposed standard belong directly in this record.
Read the SBA-2026-0199 docket on Regulations.gov →
Filing 2 — Size Standards Methodology · SBA-2026-0265
This docket is about the method SBA used to group industries and calculate the proposed standards. Your underlying business evidence can be the same, but this tool adjusts the opening and closing so SBA understands the evidence is also offered to test the methodology and the proposed grouping.
Read the SBA-2026-0265 docket on Regulations.gov →
Why file both?
The two dockets ask related but different questions. Filing in both places puts your business experience in the record for the proposed standard itself and in the separate record for the methodology behind it.