SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARDS - PROPOSED RULE TO RESTRUCTURE SO THAT ALL SIZE STANDARDS WOULD BE BASED ON NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
- Notice Date
- 3/19/2004
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 926110
— Administration of General Economic Programs
- Contracting Office
- Small Business Administration, Office of Administration, Office of Procurement and Grants Management, 409 Third Street, S.W., 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 20416
- ZIP Code
- 20416
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-sizestandards20040319
- Response Due
- 5/18/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2004
- Point of Contact
- Carl Jordan, Program Analyst, Phone 202-205-6618, Fax 202-205-6390,
- E-Mail Address
-
restructure.sizestandards@sba.gov
- Description
- <html> <body> The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has proposed to modify its small business size standards by establishing size standards in terms of the number of?employees of a business concern for most industries and SBA programs.? This change will reduce the number of different size standard levels and at the same time simplify size standards and their application to Federal Government programs.? Under this proposal, size standards will range from 50?employees to 1,500?employees, depending on the industry or SBA program. <p /> For a limited number of industries, SBA proposed to establish a maximum average annual receipts amount (referred to as a receipts cap) along with the employee-based size standard.? Concerns in those industries that meet the employee-based size standard also cannot exceed a specific receipts cap to qualify as an eligible small business. <p />To further simplify size standards, SBA also proposed the following: (1)?modify the size standard for the Surety Bond Guarantee (SBG) Program by replacing the $6?million size standard with the requirement that the contractor meet the size standard for its primary industry; (2)?extend the 125,000?barrels per calendar day component of the size standard for petroleum refiners beyond Federal Government procurement to all Federal small business programs using SBA?s size standards; (3)?eliminate the special size standard based on market share for tire manufacturers that applies to only Federal Government procurement; (4)?modify three receipts-based size standards and one employee-based size standard for the sale or lease of Government property; and, (5)?revise the nonmanufacturer size standard applicable to Federal procurements from 500?employees to 100?employees, the same size standard that applies to wholesale trade businesses and all other SBA programs. <p /> SBA has prepared a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) to help understand the proposed rule and its implications.? SBA cautions that the FAQ are meant merely to simplify some of the more basic concepts of the proposed rule, and they cannot replace reading the proposed rule itself.? Interested parties should submit comments based on the proposed rule, rather than on the FAQ.? <p />You may read and/or download the proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on March?19,?2004, together with the FAQ, on SBA's website at http://www.sba.gov/size/indexwhatsnew.html#restructurePR. The proposed rule is also available at http://www.regulations.gov. <p />SBA must receive all comments to the proposed rule by May 18, 2004. </body> </html>
- Record
- SN00550908-W 20040321/040319212731 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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