At the time of this episode’s recording, the Small Business Administration had received 66,000 comments in response to its proposed sweeping rewrite of size standards for determining who is in fact a small business.
Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, joins for this episode to explain SBA’s ideas that would base the standards on market size instead of receipts and headcount.
Kostro led off the conversation with Nick and Ross by using the word “seismic,” and for good reason, as this proposal would be a fundamental reordering of the market if SBA goes ahead with it. She goes through why that word reflects what SBA wants to do.
Also on the agenda for this discussion: artificial intelligence’s role in bid protests, the CMMC cyber standard being on pause, the Federal Acquisition Regulation overhaul and the looming expiration of many agreements under the OneGov tech procurement initiative.
( NOTE: After we recorded this episode, the FAR Council unveiled the second batch of proposed changes to the regulations. )
SBA’s size standard rewrite draws angry, frustrated comments
SBA proposes sweeping rewrite of small business size standards
WT 360: Generative AI’s pitfalls and potential benefits in GovCon law
Think AI can write your company's bid protest? Think again.
File-naming blunders doomed MAPS protest, not ambiguities
CMMC's Phase 2 suspension locked in with binding regulation
CMMC suspension caught industry off guard, but the reasons did not
A playbook for thriving with OneGov and the FAR Overhaul
DOD suspends CMMC Phase 2, launches 60-day ‘reform’ review
30 days to shape the biggest FAR overhaul in 40 years
Revolutionary FAR Overhaul moves to formal rulemaking with first batch of proposed rules
Industry offers government a playbook for handling OneGov expirations
