Comments to Proposed Rule on Consolidation of Mentor Protégé Programs and Other Government Contracting Amendments, February 7, 2020 -
In its role as advocate to small businesses operating in the government contracting...more
3/2/2020
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Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals ,
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Federal Contractors ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Mentor-Protege Program ,
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Earlier this month, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued its answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) concerning the new rule changes to the HUBZone Program. These FAQs follow the December 26, 2019 effective...more
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CLIENT ALERT: The 2020 NDAA's Impact on Government Contractors -
On December 17, 2019, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020,...more
12/24/2019
/ Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
DFARS ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
GAO ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
NDAA ,
NLRB ,
Procurement Guidelines ,
SBA
On December 17, 2019, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020, sending it to the White House for the President’s signature. As with prior NDAAs, the 2020 NDAA includes a number of...more
CLIENT ALERT: SBA to Enact Significant Changes to Small Business Regulations Before 2020: Everything You Need to Know -
On November 29, 2019, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a final rule that will...more
12/12/2019
/ Business Development ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Mentor-Protege Program ,
NDAA ,
OFCCP ,
OIG ,
Proposed Rules ,
SBA ,
SDVOSB ,
Small Business ,
Small Business Runway Extension Act
Effective January 6, 2020, SBA will change the period of measurement for receipts-based size calculations from three years to five years. This change is the result of the Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018 and SBA’s...more
LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION -
The Supreme Court Clarifies Vague Arbitration Clauses Affecting Class Disputes for Growing Businesses -
For most small to medium-sized businesses, the threat of a class action is not...more
10/18/2019
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
HUBZone ,
Joint Venture ,
Limited Liability Company (LLC) ,
Partnerships ,
Professional Corporation ,
SBA ,
Small Business ,
Tipped Employees
Our Corporate and Government Contracts attorneys often counsel contractors interested in acquiring an entity with a clearance or assets used on a classified contract. The clearance is a consideration in the transaction that...more
SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS & ADVISORY SERVICES -
CLIENT ALERT: SBA to Increase Size Standards with Inflationary Adjustment, July 17, 2019 -
On July 18, 2019, SBA issued an interim final rule increasing the receipts-based...more
7/24/2019
/ Acquisitions ,
CPARS ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
DFARS ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Mergers ,
Pay Data ,
SBA ,
Trump Administration
SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS & ADVISORY SERVICES -
PilieroMazza Submits Comments in Response to RIN 3245-AG75, Proposed Rule on Women-Owned Small Business and Economically Disadvantage Women-Owned Small Business Certification...more
Today, SBA will issue an interim final rule increasing the receipts-based size standards for inflation. An unpublished version of the rule is available here. The change should be effective August 17, 2019, 30 days after the...more
SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS & ADVISORY SERVICES -
SBA Issues Proposed Rule Changing Receipts Calculation to 5 Years, Implementing Small Business Runway Extension Act -
On June 24, 2019, the Small Business Administration...more
7/1/2019
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Kisor v Wilkie ,
Proposed Rules ,
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SBA ,
SCOTUS ,
Small Business ,
State and Local Government
On June 24, 2019, the Small Business Administration (SBA) published its long-awaited proposed rule changing the period of measurement for a receipts-based size calculation from three years to five years. This change was...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING -
The Department of Defense issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to implement section 2804 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year...more
5/13/2019
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Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
DFARS ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
NDAA ,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ,
Over-Time ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
SBA ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour
Earlier this month, SBA published its final rule adopting a revised size standards methodology. My colleagues, Jon Williams and Tim Valley, previously described the proposed changes to the methodology in a blog last year. The...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING -
The Department of Defense (DoD) updated its list of product categories for which the Federal Prison Industries’ (FPI) share of the DoD market is greater than 5%, as required by statute. The product...more
3/4/2019
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
DFARS ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Small Business ,
Title VII ,
TSA
I spoke at the TRI-Association Small Business Advisory Panel (TRIAD) Winter Meeting a couple weeks ago in Nashville, and a number of attendees asked me questions about how often a large prime contractor must require its small...more
RULES AND REGULATIONS -
Proposed Rules -
The Small Business Administration (SBA) published a proposed rule amending its regulations and implementing provisions of the NDAAs of 2016 and 2017 as well as the Recovery...more
12/10/2018
/ Arbitration ,
DFARS ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Mandatory Arbitration Clauses ,
NDAA ,
OFCCP ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proposed Regulation ,
SBA ,
Small Business ,
Title VII
On December 4, 2018, DOD issued a proposed rule amending the DFARS to impose limits on the use of the lowest price technically acceptable (“LPTA”) source selection process. These changes are driven by the National Defense...more
Published by Set-Aside Alert: The Small Business Administration published its long-awaited proposed rule overhauling the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Program on Oct. 31. Comments to the proposed rule are...more
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT -
Federal Acquisition Regulation: Evaluation Factors for Multiple-Award Contracts -
The Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space...more
Congress is considering changing the receipts calculation for small businesses. Currently, a company’s size is determined based on the average annual receipts of the three recently completed fiscal years. However, in the...more
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -
504 Loan Program Rural Initiative: Waiver of Limitation on Lending Authority -
According to an article in amazonaws.com, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the 504...more
7/24/2018
/ Congressional Investigations & Hearings ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Loans ,
GAO ,
Joint Venture ,
Minority-Owned Businesses ,
Procurement Guidelines ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Procurement Policies ,
SBA ,
Security Clearance ,
Transgender ,
Veterans Administration ,
Women-Owned Businesses
A recent GAO decision upholds a facility clearance in a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) solicitation even if burdensome to unpopulated joint ventures. The protester in the case made a common mistake among...more
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -
Small Business HUBZone Program and Government Contracting Programs and Consolidation of Mentor-Protégé Programs -
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announces that it is holding...more
6/11/2018
/ CBO Report ,
Clawbacks ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
DFARS ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
HUBZone ,
Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd v Colorado Civil Rights Commission ,
McDonalds ,
Mentor-Protege Program ,
NDAA ,
Race Discrimination ,
SBA ,
SCOTUS ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Small Business