It's finally out: the Small Business Administration's long-awaited, much-debated, final rule establishing size recertification requirements applicable to contracts that run for longer than five years appeared in the Nov. 15 issue of the Federal Register.
Imagine your agency customer calls and says, "We've received a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of your contract. We will comply with that request unless you explain to us why we shouldn't."
The "specialty metals" provision of the Berry Amendment became law long before most people could conceive of today's global IT market. But that law limits the ability of the Defense Department to acquire commercial IT and the electronic components vital to nearly all modern weapons and other sophisticated systems.
A familiar regulation of the Small Business Administration allows a contractor that qualified as a small business at the time it won a contract to be considered small for the life of the contract. More than three years after SBA proposed to amend it, that regulation remains in force.
