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SBA Update: Final Rule Makes Investing in 8(a) Firms Easier Than Ever!

PilieroMazza PLLC on 12/30/2024

As PilieroMazza has been reporting, the Small Business Administration (SBA) recently issued its much-anticipated final rule, which updates and clarifies many regulations that impact small businesses. The revised regulations...more

Are Changes Coming to EDGE in Ohio?

Frantz Ward LLP on 5/10/2024

On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued its historic decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023). This decision upended decades of precedent and held that race-conscious...more

Federal Court Strikes Down Race- and Ethnicity-Based Programming Criteria

McGuireWoods LLP on 3/28/2024

On March 5, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ordered the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to cease using race or ethnicity as a basis for determining access to agency programming....more

U.S. District Court Bars Racial Criteria for Minority Business Development Agency Programs

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 3/18/2024

On March 5, 2024, in its opinion and order for the case of Jeffrey Nuziard, et. al. v. Minority Business Development Agency, et. al., Case 4:23-cv-00278-P, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Fort...more

SBA’s 8(a) Program Again Challenged and the Potential Impacts on Native Owned Entities

PilieroMazza PLLC on 3/12/2024

The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) Business Development Program (8(a) program) faced new constitutionality challenges in a case filed at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC) by Advanced Simulation Technology...more

SBA to Require Individually-Owned 8(a) Firms to Support Social Disadvantage Prior to 8(a) Award Approval

PilieroMazza PLLC on 8/18/2023

As PilieroMazza recently reported, on July 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee declared that the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage violated...more

.SBA Cries Time Out! Temporary Suspension of New 8(a) Applications Following Ultima Servs.

McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts... on 8/7/2023

As many GovCon news junkies following recent events had predicted, the Small Business Administration (SBA) just “temporarily suspended” new 8(a) application submissions. For those of you who haven’t been following along the...more

Women Owned Small Business Certification Program - Part Two: Certification and Benefits

Foster Swift Collins & Smith on 3/9/2021

This is the second part in a series discussing the Women Owned Small Business (“WOSB”) certification program with the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”). Part One summarizes the eligibility requirements....more

PODCAST: Williams Mullen GovCon Perspectives - Recent Updates to the SWaM Certification Process in Virginia

Williams Mullen on 10/31/2019

In this episode, Shayn Fernandez is joined by Verniece Love, Director of SWaM Certification, Virginia Department of Small Business & Supplier Diversity (SBSD), who provides updates to the SWaM certification process as well as...more

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