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OMB Issues Command to Increase Small Business Participation on MACs

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The White House has issued a memorandum that calls for specific procedures for Increasing Small Business Participation on Multiple-Award Contracts. “Maximize orders to small businesses under the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) to the maximum extent practicable.” Make BICs work for small business.

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Back to Basics: 8(a) Program Economic Disadvantage

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For the former, the information below can serve as a refresher on the basics of economic disadvantage–but also, a source for SBA’s most recent economic disadvantage thresholds (as of 2024, as these are updated periodically for inflation ). What are SBA’s current economic disadvantage thresholds ?

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Back to Basics: Small Business Sole Source Awards

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We most frequently see them used for contracts made to participants in the 8(a) Small Business Development Program, but the other programs (WOSB, SDVOSB, and HUBZone) have the ability to make sole source awards as well. 8(a) Sole Source Awards Since the majority of sole source awards are made to 8(a) Program participants, let’s start there.

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A Bridge (Not) Too Far: Prohibition on Dividing up Contracts to get Under 8(a) Sole Source Dollar Limit Doesn’t Apply to Bridge Contracts

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124.506 , if an 8(a) contract price would exceed a certain threshold ($7 million for manufacturing contracts, $4.5 It would sole source the first part to 8(a) participant Peregrine Advisors Benefit, Inc. Peregrine) and compete the second part, worth $43 million, for 8(a) participants to bid on. Under 13 C.F.R. B-422187 (Feb.

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DoD Proposes Updates to its Mentor-Protégé Program

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Many federal contractors know of and participate in the SBA’s Mentor-Protégé Program. While a separate blog post about all the differences is likely justified as some point, for this blog, we will just cover the unique items that DoD is planning on updating right now.

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Back to Basics: Similarly Situated Entities

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” Even if you are not sure where this term comes from, don’t fret, a great place to start is this other Back to Basics blog on limitations on subcontracting. So, let’s take it back to the basics of “similarly situated entities.” For those, SBA’s limitations on subcontracting rules state: (a) General.

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Lost in Public Space: Exploring the Unknown with the Norwegian Public Sector Segment

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The result– the market has turned into almost a monopoly where there is one dominant provider and the threshold for other vendors is so high that entry is incredibly difficult. In light of existing rules, vendors can deter competition by driving prices down in competitive tenders.