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The 8(a) program is on pause

There are many goals of government procurement and many of them are at odds with each other. For example, society values competition in government procurement. But competition can slow things down. Similarly, society values efficiency with taxpayer dollars. But the most efficient thing may not be especially transparent. These goals

No lease? Maybe you're not so small after all!

We've talked before about the quirks of determining whether a business is a small business for government-contracts purposes. In general, you look to the number of employees a company has, you look at the average revenues of that company, and you use those inputs to determine whether the

Make sure to check those boxes

We've talked before about NAICS arbitrage as a way to navigate government size standards for small-business set asides. Today, though, I want to talk about another tool in the toolkit: mentor-protégé joint ventures. To the uninitiated, a mentor-protégé relationship sounds like it might be sort of like a

The government has (size) standards

Close your eyes, imagine you're not the sort of person who reads newsletters about government contracts, and ask yourself "how big can a business be before it's no longer considered a small business?" It turns out that this is a really complicated question in