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Small business federal contracting commentary.
Govology Webinar: Limitations on Subcontracting: A Step-by-Step Compliance Guide (2023 Update), February 16, 1:00PM EST
For small businesses and their teammates, few government contracting topics are as confusing as the limitations on subcontracting (LoS) for set-aside and socioeconomic sole-source contracts. And if that isn’t stressful enough, the “LoS” is an area of heavy enforcement: get it wro
Koprince Law LLC · Feb 3, 2023
SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 30- February 3, 2023
Happy Friday, Readers! Hope you have been having a great week and a great start to February! Around these parts, we’re getting geared up for another exciting Super Bowl with our hometown Chiefs and the anticipation is building. We hope you had a great week and our looking forward
Koprince Law LLC · Feb 3, 2023
New OCI Law Focuses on Private Sector Contracts, More Examples, More Procedures
Late 2022, the president signed a law that would increase what contractors have to reveal about potential organizational conflicts of interest. The law is called the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act. Below, we highlight some of the main t
Koprince Law LLC · Feb 2, 2023
A Very Joyful Announcement from Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC!
We are excited to announce that Gregory Weber and his wife, Melissa, along with big brother Isaac, have a new family member! Gabriel Weber was born on January 17, 2023, weighing 7lbs. 13 oz. Everyone is doing well. Congratulations Weber family! The post A Very Joyful Announcement
Koprince Law LLC · Feb 1, 2023
Back to Basics: Get in the Zone, The HUBZone
The SBA’s HUBZone Program, short for “Historically Underutilized Business Zone,” is likely the SBA program that we hear the least about. Tucked away in Title 13, Section 126 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, the HUBZone Program gives HUBZone participants benefits in multip
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 31, 2023
Failure to Send: Protester Loses Size Determination Due to Lack of Response on Tax Returns
In federal procurement law, it is often the case that decisions on protests and other cases come down to tough questions of law that could go either way, requiring the judge to carefully weigh the reasons for making ruling one way or another. Unfortunately, there are also cases w
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 30, 2023
SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 23-27, 2023
Happy Friday, Readers. The Kansas City Chiefs secured another win on Saturday and have moved forward into the AFC Championship game. I think everyone in town had on their Chiefs gear last weekend. It was a sea of red. With temperatures predicted to be in the 20’s on Sunday, it wi
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 27, 2023
Congressional Research Service Report Discusses Emergency-Related Acquisition Flexibilities, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This Congressional report, issued December 27, 2022, provides a “discussion of acquisition flexibilities federal agencies may use to facilitate the government’s response to and recovery from disasters and emergencies.” The report explains the various types of flexibilities and so
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 25, 2023
Back to Basics: Top Five Things About SDVOSBs and VOSBs
You’ve served your country with pride. Now, as a government contractor, it’s only fair that you get your piece of the pie. Previously, we here at SmallGovCon have discussed the 5 things you should know regarding SDVOSBs and VOSBs. But in the years since that, much has changed in
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 24, 2023
SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 16-20, 2023
Happy Friday Readers. We hope you all have had a great week. We are enjoying some milder winter weather here in Kansas and received some much-needed rain. We still have a bit to go before spring, so hopefully we will get a little snow still this winter. Enjoy the weekend and we a
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 20, 2023
Law to Create One Stop Shop for Small Businesses Questions
In late 2022, Congress passed and the President signed a law that aims to make it easier for Small Business Contractors to track down small business compliance information for the wide range of agencies involved in government contracting, that are currently housed somewhere withi
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 18, 2023
Year in Review: Top SmallGovCon Posts of 2022
Happy New Year, Readers! Hope everyone is off to a great start in 2023. As we have done in the past, we want to take a step back and revisit those blog posts from 2022 that were the most popular. Below, we summarize the blogs written in 2022 that were the most popular as well as
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 13, 2023
SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 9-13, 2023
Happy Friday, Readers! Now that the holidays are over, we are really enjoying the NFL Playoffs and rooting for our Kansas City Chiefs. There’s never a dull moment when Patrick Mahomes is on the field! Our fingers are crossed that the team can get to another Super Bowl. There was
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 13, 2023
Webinar Event: Buy American Act & Trade Agreements, January 19, 2023, 1-2:00 PM CST
The Texas South-West Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network is hosting this upcoming, informative webinar on the Buy American Act. The Buy American Act permits agencies to buy foreign end products only under certain exceptions, such as when domestic items are not availa
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 12, 2023
GAO: Misrepresentation on Key Person Availability Sinks Proposal
Agencies rely on the representations made by offerors in their proposals to determine how capable each offeror is. In many cases, key personnel are so vital to an offeror’s chance of success that any change to the key personnel must be approved by the agency prior to such a chang
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 10, 2023
SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 2-6, 2023
Happy New Year! We hope you were able to enjoy the holidays with friends and family and are now ready to jump into 2023. A recent cold front has moved out of our area, and I think I speak for everyone here when I say we are grateful to get back to our normal temperatures. There w
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 5, 2023
SBA: NAICS Code Must Match the Work Sought, not the Offeror’s Work
We here at SmallGovCon like to spend our free time pondering the intricacies around how and why certain NAICS codes are assigned to the myriad of contracting opportunities posted every day. But we realize others may not have the same appetite for the intricacies of Federal Contra
Koprince Law LLC · Jan 5, 2023
SmallGovCon Week in Review: December 26-30, 2022
Happy Friday Readers! It’s time to say goodbye to 2022 and make plans for the new year. We hope 2022 has been a good year for you. We are looking forward to providing valuable insights for federal contractors in 2023 and we appreciate your continued support of SmallGovCon. This w
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 30, 2022
SBA to Small Businesses: Be Careful with Ostensible Subcontractors on SBIR Awards
In a recent decision, the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) examined a company that received two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant awards. The SBA Area Office had determined that the awardee was not an eligible small business d
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 27, 2022
Happy Holidays from Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC!
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish our readers a very happy holiday season! We appreciate you and we will keep striving, in 2023, to provide useful updates and information to the federal government contracting community. Season’s greetings! The post Happy Holidays from Ko
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 23, 2022
Final FAR Amendment Encourages Procuring Agencies to Engage with Industry
DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule that amends the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), effectively implementing a provision of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. The rule permits and encourages agency acquisition personnel to engage in responsible and constr
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 20, 2022
Help on the Way? Proposed National Defense Authorization Act for 2023 Grants DoD Discretion to Allow Inflation Relief for DoD Contractors
The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), in essence Congress’ annual budget for the Department of Defense (DoD), commonly includes various riders and attachments that amend or create other federal laws. For example, the 2022 NDAA (finally) gave SBA’s Office of Hearin
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 19, 2022
SmallGovCon Week in Review: December 12-16, 2022
Happy Friday, Readers. We hope you have had a great week and are excited about the holiday season. There’s only one more weekend to get that shopping done! No matter how prepared I think I am, it seems there is always something that sneaks up at the last minute. We do hope you fi
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 16, 2022
Breaking: SBA Proposed Rule Gives OHA Jurisdiction over HUBZone Status Protests
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has proposed to amend the rules of practice for its Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) and the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Program to “implement procedures authorizing appeals to OHA” from adverse status determinati
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 14, 2022
Goodbye PTAC, Hello APEX Accelerators
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Friday, December 2, 2022, in a bid to strengthen and expand small business development nationally. The most obvious immediate change is that the more than 90
Koprince Law LLC · Dec 12, 2022