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September 2025

The Rule of Two survived. But it's still primed for legal and legislative battles.
Part one of a three-part series on the FAR Overhaul of Part 19 on Small Business
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FAR Overhaul of Part 19 is out! Here are my initial reactions.
A recording from Sam Le's live video
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How not to structure a joint venture
A Federal court throws cold water on JV management by committee. Plus, why JVs are limited to two years.
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The FAR Overhaul of Part 13 isn't as bad as it seems
The Simplified Acquisition Procedures covered 94% of small-business buys, but it's been renamed Simplified Procedures for Noncommercial Acquisitions.
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Something weird is going on with the 8(a) program. Most affected are firms owned by ANCs, Tribes, and NHOs.
The latest data on approvals and a review of the history behind Native contracting
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The FAR Companion Guide is where the action is
Plus the FAR's Best-in-Class reversal, small-business participation is down 8.5%, and SBA's OHA defines permissible investment
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What to expect as contracting moves to GSA
Less competition, fewer socioeconomic set-asides, more Schedule and SBIR Phase III, bigger small businesses, and hardly any new entrants
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August 2025

GSA's Polaris makes a mockery of the SBA size protest process
Plus: Could SBA cut 85% of its rules?, entity-owned 8(a)'s missed getting $150 million sole-source authority, the joint-venture rule that COFC missed…
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With size standards, SBA saved 7,900 small businesses and wants to create 11,200 more
The agency asks for comments on its largest proposal ever, and it reads every single one of them
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The nonmanufacturer rule puts additional regulations on small-business resellers that large businesses don't face
Plus veteran-certification applications need to be consistent; a contractor wins a big change to the NAICS code; and SBA publishes a massive…
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The FAR Council Strikes Back: How the latest FAR rewrite hurts small-business competition
Nine years ago, the FAR Council tried and failed to mandate consolidated contracting, but this time, the mandate will go into effect.
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