Happy Friday! We hope you had a great week. We are already halfway through January and looking forward to see if the Chiefs can finish the three-peat!
The federal landscape has been busy, with updates spanning Buy America, small business dollars, and procurement complications, including Polaris protests. You can read more about these topics in the articles below. Have a great weekend!
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It’s Friday and time for another week in review! We hope you have had a great week and are safe from the extreme weather conditions the country seems to be experiencing right now. We are still digging out from the blizzard sent our way by the polar vortex. We also hope that our readers in California are safe and well. Our thoughts go out to all of you that are dealing with those devastating wildfires.
This week in federal government contracting news had some interesting stories including withdrawals of federal regulations on contractor greenhouse gas emissions and pay equity, as well as opportunities for federal contractors in 2025.
Continue readingSteven Koprince, Govology legal analyst and retired founder of Koprince McCall Pottroff will be presenting this webinar. In this course he provides a big-picture overview of small business certifications in the government marketplace and you will learn about various federal small business certification programs, including Small Business Self Certification, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) & 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone), Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Economic Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB).
This course has been updated to reflect recent changes set forth in two SBA regulations released in late 2024. He will also touch on state and local certification programs and provide information on additional training and resources you can use to develop a deeper understanding and get help with any federal, state, and small business certification program. Register here.
Many of the SBA’s small business programs have restrictions on what are commonly referred to as “extraordinary circumstances” or “extraordinary actions.” It’s a topic that we have discussed many times before, including this blog post discussing a case at SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals, reviewing extraordinary circumstances in the context of control and operating agreements. SBA often discusses extraordinary circumstances in the context of joint venture control, where the managing venturer must control decisions except for those considered to be extraordinary. But there is a different meaning in the context of an entity seeking certification under an SBA socioeconomic program, where the qualifying individual must have control over all actions and circumstances except for those determined to be extraordinary. This post will focus on the latter situation. And, as any knowledgeable small business federal government contractor can attest to, knowing what actions are and are not extraordinary, is very important to maintain eligibility for the SBA’s programs.
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Happy Friday and Happy New Year to all of our SmallGovCon readers! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are looking forward to 2025. As we look forward to the new year and close out the old, there are sure to be lots of developments in the federal contracting space. So, as you batten down the hatches for the polar vortex, it’s time for a nice, warm fire, maybe some hot cocoa and the latest in federal contracting news.
Stories included a new law on custom software, and rules on small business representation and debarments.
Continue readingBoth GAO and the federal agencies take proposal deadlines with the utmost seriousness. We have discussed a few other examples of late proposals being denied by GAO before. Now, we have another one. This time, the protester put forth the argument that its lateness was not its fault. Rather, it was caused by issues with the agency’s proposal receipt system. Unfortunately for the protester, GAO did not accept this argument. Here, we will go into how it arrived at that decision.
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