2024 By the Numbers – A record breaking year for Small Business! 
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by Hilary Sutton
2d ago
With a new administration taking office, for small businesses across the country, there are unknowns ahead. We are eager to see how the new administration will impact small businesses across the country and ready to support our clients recognizing that 2024 was a “blockbuster” year for America’s small businesses in 2024 with a record-breaking $183 ..read more
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2024 By the Numbers – A record breaking year for Small Business! 
Gov Contract Pros Blog
by Hilary Sutton
2d ago
With a new administration taking office, for small businesses across the country, there are unknowns ahead. We are eager to see how the new administration will impact small businesses across the country and ready to support our clients recognizing that 2024 was a “blockbuster” year for America’s small businesses in 2024 with a record-breaking $183 ..read more
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Business Activity Targets: Ensuring 8(a) Compliance to Avoid Sole Source Restrictions
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by Trevor Skelly
2d ago
Strategic Growth Partners (SGP) has noticed an increase in scrutiny that Business Opportunity Specialists (“BOS”) are applying to evaluating Business Activity Targets (“BAT”). Beginning in Program Year Five (5) – or Year One (1) of the “Transitional Stage” of the 8(a) Business Development Program (“the Program”), participants are required to meet certain thresholds for non-8(a ..read more
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Update – Bona Fide Office Requirement for 8(a) Construction Contracts
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by Jake Neilson
2d ago
This summer, SBA Administrator Guzman announced another moratorium extension on the BFO rule.  The Bona Fide Office (“BFO”) Rule requires that 8(a) construction contracts “shall be awarded within the county or State where the work is to be performed” (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(11).  Per the Moratorium, this rule will not be enforced until September 30, 2025 at ..read more
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Proposed Updates to 8(a) Regulations
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by Jake Neilson
2d ago
Current 8(a) regulations include numerous provisions that emphasize the disadvantaged individual’s ownership but run counter to common business practices or place unnecessary burdens on business owners. The proposed rule reconsiders several positions that have caused uncertainty in the application process and have often required businesses to weigh the benefits of admission to the 8(a) program against the ..read more
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Affiliation Rule Change Proposed
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by Trevor Skelly
2d ago
Strategic Growth Partners (SGP) has learned that the SBA recently issued proposed changes to the HUBZone Program aimed at clarifying comprehensive changes made to the program in 2019. The proposed rule would also make several changes to SBA’s size and 8(a) Business Development (BD) regulations, as well as some technical changes to the Women-Owned Small ..read more
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Insights from Inside the 8(a) Program: Terra Constructs and Strategic Growth Partners
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by Jake Neilson
2d ago
At Strategic Growth Partners our mission is to empower businesses by helping them leverage federal small business programs like the 8(a) business development program. Recently, we hosted a webinar featuring Babur Mian, President and CEO of Terra Constructs, a construction firm that has successfully navigated the 8(a) program.  The 8(a) program has been instrumental in ..read more
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New NDAA Draft Empowers DoD to Boost Veteran-Owned Small Businesses
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by Trevor Skelly
2d ago
Congress may grant DoD contracting officers additional regulatory authorities to meet small business goaling, as evidenced by the draft NDAA for FY25, specifically, Subtitle F of the NDAA regarding Small Business Matters includes Section 861 for DoD Contracting Goals for Small Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by Veterans. The draft language reads: “a contracting officer ..read more
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Demonstrating HUBZone Status for HUBZone Concerns and HUBZone Joint Ventures
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by Jake Neilson
2d ago
In a recent post, we shared guidance on the applicable regulatory references which identify eligibility as an 8(a) program participant. As promised, SGP offers this guidance for HUBZone small business concerns’ status as a HUBZone and that of their joint ventures. For HUBZone eligibility, the FAR provides that contracting officers should review a small concern’s SAM and DSBS profiles. In ..read more
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Demonstrating 8(a) Status for 8(a) Participants and 8(a) Joint Ventures
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by Trevor Skelly
2d ago
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (the “FAR”) and its Part 19, Small Business Programs, can create uncertainties even for seasoned federal contracting professionals. Recognizing the importance of small business set asides and the growing popularity of joint ventures in federal contracting, Strategic Growth Partners (SGP) has prepared this guidance to identify crucial regulatory references which identify ..read more
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