GovCon Intelligence

SBA Wants More Self-Performance After an 8(a) Made a Data Entry Error

A mistaken report looks like a 96% subcontract. Construction firms should tell SBA now what tighter limits on subcontracting would cost them.

5 hrs ago • Sam Le

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SBA's Increases to Size Standards: Why, When, and How...

...the proposal could leave only 360 small businesses

Oct 1 • Sam Le

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September 2026

SBA extends size-standards comment period by 60 days

Comments on the increases to small-business definitions are now due November 20

Sep 21 • Sam Le

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AI is reading your bids. Here’s what you can do about it (with David Timm)

Plus, why AI could kill us all before it can research for a GAO protest

Sep 15 • Sam Le

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SBA’s Size Standards Public Forum will be Thursday at 10 a.m. ET

With comments running 8-to-1 against the proposal, SBA seeks to hear from small businesses

Sep 11 • Sam Le

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The Case Against the FAR Overhaul (with Marcos Gonzalez)

Why Marcos Gonzalez is arguing that the RFO violated Federal law, plus using AI in law

Sep 1 • Sam Le

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August 2026

Before billion-dollar businesses become “small,” Reagan’s SBA had a different answer

The 1984 policies were still largely intact until the current SBA decided to help “non-dominant” mid-size businesses

Aug 27 • Sam Le

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SBA's Huge Size Standards Increases: Are they too much?

A recording from Sam Le's live video

Aug 21 • Sam Le

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SBA swiftly finalizes new rule on 8(a) social disadvantage

The standard takes effect September 10

Aug 10 • Sam Le

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Domestic Sourcing: The Buy American Act and TAA Explained (with Karri Palmetier)

Plus insight on the SBIR national-security case

Aug 4 • Sam Le

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July 2026

SBA Case Updates: Joint Ventures, 8(a) & Size

How the 8(a) suspension cases change how SBA determines disadvantage

Jul 28 • Sam Le

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FOCI: The Next Small Business Compliance Bomb (with Erin Estevez)

With CMMC Phase 2 paused, the looming FOCI disclosure regime threatens industrial- base participation

Jul 21 • Sam Le

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