The Small Business Administration's (SBA) Small Business Size Regulations implement the Small Business Act's mandate to the SBA. The SBA has also established a table of size standards, matched to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries.
The regulations as defined by the Code of Federal Regulations are as follows:
Provisions of General Applicability
- What are SBA size standards?
- How does SBA establish size standards?
- What is 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?
Size Standards Used To Define Small Business Concerns
Size Eligibility Requirements For SBA Financial Assistance
- What size standards 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 are the size requirements for refinancing an existing SBA loan?
Size Eligibility Requirements for Government Procurement
- What size standards are applicable to financial assistance programs?
- What size standards are applicable to procurement assistance programs?
- Are SBA size determinations and NAICS code designations binding on parties?
- When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?
- May a business concern self-certify its small business size status?
- How does a small business concern qualify to provide manufactured products under small business set-aside or MED procurements?
- 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 size must a concern be to be eligible for the Very Small Business program?
Size Eligibility Requirements for Sales or Lease of Government Property
- 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?
Size Eligibility Requirements for the Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Program
- What is a small business for purposes of admission to SBA's Minority Enterprise Development (MED) program?
- At what point in time must a MED applicant be small?
- How does SBA determine whether a Participant is small for a particular MED subcontract?
- Are MED Participants considered small for purposes of other SBA assistance?
Size Eligibility Requirements for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
- What SBIR programs are subject to size determinations?
- What size standards are applicable to the SBIR program?
- Are formal size determinations binding on parties?
- When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?
- Must a business concern self-certify its size status?
Size Eligibility Requirements for Paying Reduced Patent Fees
- 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?
Size Eligibility Requirements for Compliance With Programs of Other Agencies
- 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?
Procedures for Size Protests and Requests for Formal Size Determinations
- 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 happens after SBA receives a size protest or a 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?
Appeals of Size Determinations and NAICS Code Designations
- Are formal size determinations subject to appeal?
- Are NAICS code designations subject to appeal?
- What are the procedures for appealing an NAICS code designation?
Waivers of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for Classes of Products and Individual Contracts
- 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?
Further clarification of the size standards can be addressed to the Small Business Administration.
Source: Code of Federal Regulations, Title 13, Part 121 - Small Business Size Regulations
