Small businesses face ‘seismic’ change to their rules of the road

At the time of this episode’s recording, the Small Business Administration had received 66,000 comments in response to its proposed sweeping rewrite of size standards for determining who is in fact a small business.

Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, joins for this episode to explain SBA’s ideas that would base the standards on market size instead of receipts and headcount.

Kostro led off the conversation with Nick and Ross by using the word “seismic,” and for good reason, as this proposal would be a fundamental reordering of the market if SBA goes ahead with it. She goes through why that word reflects what SBA wants to do.

Also on the agenda for this discussion: artificial intelligence’s role in bid protests, the CMMC cyber standard being on pause, the Federal Acquisition Regulation overhaul and the looming expiration of many agreements under the OneGov tech procurement initiative.

( NOTE: After we recorded this episode, the FAR Council unveiled the second batch of proposed changes to the regulations. )

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