A court ruling is forcing small businesses to detail bias to keep special contracting status

Photo caption: Small Business Administration headquarters. Photo credit: Tajha Chappellet-Lanier. Article by Madison Alder. FedScoop – August 24, 2023.

Lawyers and contracting experts urged small businesses proving disadvantage in a ‘narrative’ to take the document seriously as their participation in the SBA’s 8(a) program is on the line.

Small business owners who qualified for a government contracting program because of their presumed disadvantage as members of a certain racial or ethnic group are now being required to describe precisely how they’ve been discriminated against to continue receiving contract awards under the program. […]

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