Courts, Boards, & GAO
GovConFAQ: How Do I Count My Joint Venture’s Receipts When Determining My Size?
Koprince McCall Pottroff - Joint ventures are an increasingly common teaming structure in small business federal government contracting. They offer small businesses (and even...
Joint Ventures in Federal Contracting: SBA Rules, Mentor-Protégé, and the Two-Year Rule
GovConFeed - Joint ventures let two contractors chase work neither could win alone — and in the set-aside market, they come wrapped in some...
Small Business Math Doesn’t Add Up for Incumbent
The incumbent contractor challenged the agency’s decision to eliminate its proposal from a competition for support services. The protester argued that the agency unreasonably...
NAICS Code Showdown: OHA Finds that Providing Administrative Support of Healthcare Services Does Not Mean You’re Providing Healthcare Services
A protester challenged the agency's NAICS code designation for a contract requiring appointment scheduling and referral management services, arguing the work involved office administrative...
When a Mentor-Protégé JV Falls Apart Mid-Procurement: What IBSS v. United States Means for Federal Contractors
Bradley - When a mentor-protégé joint venture fractures before a federal contract is awarded—and the mentor company that supplied all of the experience and...
SBA Proposes to Eliminate the Rebuttable Presumption of Social Disadvantage for Individually Owned 8(a) Firms: What Contractors Need to Know
Blank Rome - The U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) published a proposed rule on June 11, 2026, that would reshape how individually owned small...
Avoiding Ostensible Subcontractor Affiliation With SBA’s “Safe Harbor”
Steven Koprince - The ostensible subcontractor affiliation rule provides that a small business prime contractor is affiliated with its subcontractor if the subcontractor "performs...
Behind the Scenes of the Fight for the Rule of Two
GovCon Intelligence - Lizzie Sullivan has been pushing the Rule of Two through Congress for years now, and this year is the best shot...
GovCon FAQs: What Costs Can I Exclude From Limitations on Subcontracting Calculations?
Koprince McCall Pottroff - If your small business performs federal government contracts, chances are, you’ve already calculated your small business’s compliance with the applicable...
“Show Your Math!” Why Did OHA Reject the Protester’s Affiliation Arguments?
The appellant challenged a size determination, arguing the area office failed to properly analyze whether a joint venture's members were small businesses when accounting...
SBA’s One-Page Suspension ‘Record’ Gets Remanded — Agency Must Show Its Work
GovConFeed - The Small Business Administration's suspension of tribal 8(a) contractor ATI Government Solutions hit a procedural wall in May, when the agency's own...
Proposed Rule Would Turn 8(a) Program on its Head
Schoonover & Moriarty - The Small Business Administration proposed the most significant rewrite of 8(a) Business Development program’s social disadvantage eligibility in the program’s...
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