Title 13, Part 121 — Small Business Size Regulations

What are SBA size standards?

How does SBA establish size standards?

How does SBA determine affiliation?

How does SBA calculate annual receipts?

How does SBA define “business concern or concern”?

How does SBA calculate number of employees?

How does SBA determine a concern's “primary industry”?

What are the penalties for misrepresentation of size status?

What is a small business status advisory opinion?

What must a concern do in order to be identified as a small business concern in any Federal procurement databases?

What size standards has SBA identified by North American Industry Classification System codes?

What size standards and affiliation principles are applicable to financial assistance programs?

When does SBA determine the size status of an applicant?

What size procedures are used by SBA before it makes a formal size determination?

What are the size requirements for refinancing an existing SBA loan?

What size eligibility requirements exist for obtaining financial assistance relating to particular procurements?

What procurement programs are subject to size determinations?

What size standards are applicable to Federal Government Contracting programs?

Are SBA size determinations and NAICS code designations binding on parties?

When is the size status of a business concern determined?

May a business concern self-certify its small business size status?

How does a small business concern qualify to provide manufactured products or other supply items under a small business set-aside, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone, WOSB or EDWOSB, or 8(a) contract?

What are the size procedures for multiple item procurements?

What are the size procedures for SBA's Certificate of Competency Program?

What size standard applies in an unrestricted procurement for Certificate of Competency purposes?

What are the size standards for SBA's Section 8(d) Subcontracting Program?

What are the size procedures for SBA's Section 8(d) Subcontracting Program?

What are the size procedures for partial small business set-asides?

What programs for sales or leases of Government property are subject to size determinations?

What size standards are applicable to programs for sales or leases of Government property?

Are SBA size determinations binding on parties?

When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?

What is the effect of a self-certification?

What definitions are important for sales or leases of Government-owned timber?

What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned timber (other than Special Salvage Timber)?

What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned Special Salvage Timber?

What is the size standard for leasing of Government land for coal mining?

What is the size standard for leasing of Government land for uranium mining?

What is the size standard for buying Government-owned petroleum?

What is the size standard for stockpile purchases?

What is a small business for purposes of admission to SBA's 8(a) Business Development program?

At what point in time must a 8(a) BD applicant be small?

How does SBA determine whether a Participant is small for a particular 8(a) BD subcontract?

Are 8(a) BD Participants considered small for purposes of other SBA assistance?

What SBIR and STTR programs are subject to size and eligibility determinations and what definitions are important?

What size and eligibility standards are applicable to the SBIR and STTR programs?

Are formal size determinations binding on parties?

When does SBA determine the size and eligibility status of a business concern?

Must a business concern self-certify its size and eligibility status?

May patent fees be reduced if a concern is small?

What size standards are applicable to reduced patent fees programs?

Are formal size determinations binding on parties?

When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?

May a business concern self-certify its size status?

Can other Government agencies obtain SBA size determinations?

What size standards are applicable to programs of other agencies?

How may an agency use size standards for its programs that are different than those established by SBA?

When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?

Who may initiate a size protest or request a formal size determination?

Who makes a formal size determination?

Where should a size protest be filed?

What time limits apply to size protests?

How must a protest be filed with the contracting officer?

When will a size protest be referred to an SBA Government Contracting Area Office?

Must a protest of size status relate to a particular procurement and be specific?

What occurs after SBA receives a size protest or request for a formal size determination?

What are the procedures for making the size determination?

How does a concern become recertified as a small business?

Are formal size determinations subject to appeal?

Are NAICS code designations subject to appeal?

What are the procedures for appealing a NAICS code or size standard designation?

What is the Nonmanufacturer Rule?

When will a waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule be granted for a class of products?

When will a waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule be granted for an individual contract?

What are the procedures for requesting and granting waivers?

How is a list of previously granted class waivers obtained?

How will potential offerors be notified of applicable waivers?