Legal Updates

SBA Joint Ventures and Security/Entity Eligibility Determinations–Department of Defense/SBA/ISOO

By: Christine V Williams on 10/20/2023

The Information and Security Oversight Office (“ISOO”) provided a Joint Notice , 2024-01, regarding the eligibility determinations of joint ventures (“JV”)—specifically addressing the unpopulated structure of JV due to SBA regulations. Overall, the eligibility of each entity participating in a JV with security will be evaluated on a case by case basis, but there is some good guidance...

Federal Agency Schedules Digital Tools Outreach Meeting in Alaska

By: Christine V Williams on 08/30/2022

The Office of Advocacy, an independent office within the SBA, is holding an outreach meeting in Anchorage, Alaska on September 14 from 1-4 at the Loussac Library.  This will be held after tribal consultations, which the Office of Advocacy, an independent voice for the impact of regulations on small businesses, will attend. The digital outreach is an in-person listening session to better...

Unpublished Tribal Consultations Scheduled for Yet to be Published Regulations–All Dates and All Locations Given Today

By: Outlook Law, LLC on 08/25/2022

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or Agency) announces that it is holding tribal consultation meetings in Anchorage, Alaska, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Washington, D.C., as well as a Listening Session in Honolulu, Hawaii, concerning forthcoming proposed revisions to the 8(a) Business Development (BD) program regulations. Additionally, SBA requests comments...

SBA’s New Regulations and Tribal Consultations

By: Outlook Law, LLC on 08/18/2022

As has been discussed, the SBA is getting ready to release new regulations for procurement programs, including 8(a).  In conjunction with the yet to be released regulations, the SBA is scheduling tribal consultations in Anchorage, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.  The Anchorage tribal consultation is scheduled for September 14 and the New Mexico and Oklahoma consultations for the yet to be released...

SBA Extends Bona Fide Office Moratorium for Additional Year

By: Christine V Williams on 07/11/2022

In a policy with an effective date of June 30, 2022, SBA has extended the Bona Fide Office Moratorium for 8(a) firms until September 30, 2023.  The first moratorium was set to expire on September 30, 2022.  The moratorium or pause on regulations is necessary because the regulations were changed so that sole source awards, a distinct feature of the 8(a) Program, would join competitively bid...

Office of Advocacy for Small Businesses Announces Attendance at Tribal Consulations

By: Christine V Williams on 05/13/2022

During the panel with Outlook Law and the Small Business Administration (SBA), during the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association's Annual Conference, the Chief Counsel for the Office of Advocacy announced it will begin to attend tribal consultations to more fully understand the impact of regulations from all agencies, including SBA, have on  federally and state recognized tribes as well...

SBA Goaling and Category Management–Major Changes

By: Christine V Williams on 05/12/2022

This week, SBA Headquarters and Outlook Law, LLC, spoke on a panel regarding changes benefiting small business.  Although it is widely known, the government increased small business goaling, one important fact that is lesser known but of great importance is the relationship of category management to small businesses.  Category Management has long been seen as one of the single greatest threats...

SBA DC Headquarters and Outlook Law Speaking at ANVCA

By: Outlook Law, LLC on 05/08/2022

Outlook Law, LLC, is pleased to announce that its managing partner, Christine V Williams, will speak on a panel with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), at the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association (ANVCA) conference on May 10, 2022 at noon, which is open to the public.  The panelist from SBA are headquartered in DC and include the following: Major L. Clark is the Office...

2020 Interagency Suspension and Debarment Report Released-Numbers on the Increase

By: Christine V Williams on 04/21/2022

The Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee (ISDC) released its report on suspension and debarment relating to government contracting.  According to the report, which breaks the numbers down by agency, suspension and debarment actions increased but not necessarily in a linear fashion.  For instance, in 2020, the debarments increased slightly from the prior year, whereas the proposed...

Largest Ever False Claims Act Recovery based on Allegations of Small Business Fraud

By: Christine V Williams on 03/09/2022

According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), who has just seen a record year of False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement, TriMark USA, LLC of Mansfield, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $48.5 million to resolve allegations that its subsidiaries, TriMark Gill Marketing and TriMark Gill Group, Inc. (collectively, TriMark), improperly manipulated federal small business set-aside contracts around the...