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SBA Shakes Up 8(a) Program Regulations

Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.02.11

On March 14, 2011, sweeping changes to the SBA’s 8(a) Business Development Program go into effect, and among the most significant changes are those to the joint venture requirements, including (1) revising the requirement that the 8(a) participant receive 51% of the profits to a requirement that the 8(a) firm receive profits from the joint venture commensurate with the work the 8(a) firm performed; (2) requiring that the 8(a) firm perform at least 40% of the work done by the joint venture; (3) approving both “formal” and “informal” and populated and unpopulated joint ventures; and (4) requiring 8(a) firms to report how the requirements were satisfied. Other notable changes are to the Mentor/Protégé Program to (1) require that protégé assistance be tied to the protégé’s SBA-approved business plan; (2) increase the number of relationships that are permitted; (3) prohibit an 8(a) company from being both a mentor and protégé simultaneously; (4) allow a mentor-protégé joint venture to be deemed small for Federal subcontracts; (5) clarify that a mentor-protégé agreement needs to be approved by the SBA before the two firms can submit an offer as a joint venture to take advantage of the special exception to the size requirements for that procurement; and (6) provide the SBA with discretionary authority to recommend the issuance of a stop work order for contracts with a mentor-protégé joint venture if the mentor fails to provide the protégé with the agreed-upon assistance.

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CAS Board Publishes Final Rule Rescinding CAS 404, 408, 409, and 4117

As part of its ongoing effort to conform the Cost Accounting Standards (“CAS”) to generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the CAS Board published a final rule rescinding CAS 408 (Accounting for costs of compensated personal absence) and CAS 411 (Accounting for acquisition costs of material).  The CAS Board also rescinded CAS 404 (Capitalization of tangible assets) and CAS 409 (Depreciation of tangible capital assets) but retained certain requirements of CAS 404 and 409, which will be located in new paragraphs of CAS 405 (Accounting for unallowable costs).  Specifically, the CAS Board retained the requirements currently located at CAS 404-50(d)(1), CAS 409-50(e)(5), CAS 409-50(j)(1), and CAS 409-50(j)(4), which the CAS Board explained are necessary to protect the Government’s interests.  Otherwise, the CAS Board determined that the requirements of CAS 404, 408, 409, and 411 overlapped with GAAP such that GAAP “may be applied reasonably as a substitute for CAS to support contract cost and pricing.”...

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