​The Small Business Blog

On January 13, 2016, the SBA's Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) issued a decision in the Matter of:  Size Appeal of Government Contracting Resources, Inc.  This appeal, filed by Government Contracting Resources, Inc. (GCR) arose out of a size protest filed by two unsuccessful offerors and the subsequent size determination that GCI was not a small business due to its affiliation with Valley Indemnity, LTD. (Valley).

On December 23, 2015, the SBA's Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) issued a decision in the Matter of:  Size Appeal of Tenax Aerospace, LLC. (Tenax)  This appeal, fiiled by Tenax Aerospace, LLC, arose out of a size protest filed by Flight Support, Inc. (FSI) (an unsuccessful offeror) and subsequent size determination by SBA that Tenax was not an eligible small business for purposes of the procurement at issue.

If you want to do business with the Federal government, you must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM).  While all Federal contractors must be registered on SAM, the site is used by government officials, grant recipients, and the general public, among others.  For those of you familiar with previous systems, SAM replaced the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) system, CCR's Federal Registration (FedReg) module, the Online Representations and Certification Application (ORCA), and the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS).