Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – July 23, 2019

If you have questions concerning the content below, please visit this link . SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS & ADVISORY SERVICES CLIENT ALERT: SBA to Increase Size Standards with Inflationary Adjustment, July 17, 2019, Megan Connor On July 18, 2019, SBA issued an interim final rule increasing the receipts-based size standards for inflation. An unpublished version of the rule is available here . The change should be effective August 17, 2019, 30 days after the scheduled publication of the rulemaking. Comments to the rule are due . . . Read More

EEOC Announces New EEO-1 Pay Data Reporting Deadline

September 30, 2019 marks the newly announced deadline for employers who submit annual EEO-1 reports to report employee 2018 pay data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC revealed the new deadline in a federal court submission last week. UPDATE: Since the original blog on this topic was published, the court issued an order confirming the September 30, 2019 deadline, and requiring the EEOC to collect a second year of data in addition to the 2018 pay information. The EEOC . . . Read More

SBA to Increase Size Standards with Inflationary Adjustment

Tomorrow, SBA will issue an interim final rule increasing the receipts-based size standards for inflation. An unpublished version of the rule is available here .  The change should be effective August 17, 2019, 30 days after the scheduled publication of the rulemaking.  Comments to the rule are due September 16, 2019.  For government contractors whose status changes in the System for Award Management (“SAM”) from “other than small” to “small,” as a result of the inflation adjustment, SBA advises that the . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – July 16, 2019

If you have questions concerning the content below, please visit this link . SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS & ADVISORY SERVICES PilieroMazza Submits Comments in Response to RIN 3245-AG75, Proposed Rule on Women-Owned Small Business and Economically Disadvantage Women-Owned Small Business Certification Authors, Pamela Mazza , Megan Connor, Katie Flood, Meghan Leemon , Patrick Burns, Francis Massaro, July 15, 2019 [ Read More ] Please also see PilieroMazza’s May 15, 2019 blog “ SBA Proposes to Implement Certification Requirement for WOSB/EDWOSBs and Revise Economic Disadvantage Criteria for 8(a) Eligibility .” Defense Information Systems Agency – According to Law360, DISA, under a $.7.5 billion IT contract, . . . Read More

Impact of California Consumer Privacy Act on Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), CCPA creates significant compliance challenges for government contractors and commercial businesses doing business in California, with several states following suit. Under CCPA, fines from the Attorney General for businesses that do not comply could be as high as $7,500 per violation, with CCPA also granting consumers the right to bring private action, exposing companies to actual . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – July 8, 2019

If you have questions concerning the content below, please visit this link . GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS LAW Long-Awaited Proposed Rule for Lower-Tier Subcontracting Plan Credit Finally Arrives to the FAR, June 28, 2019, Kathryn Flood. The FAR Council is beginning to catch up with the SBA’s allowance that prime contractors with small business subcontracting plans may take credit for lower-tier small business subcontracting—albeit, three years behind schedule. PilieroMazza attorneys will monitor and report on these developments, which could affect prime contractors and their subcontracting plan . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – July 1, 2019

If you have questions concerning the content below, please visit this link . SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS & ADVISORY SERVICES SBA Issues Proposed Rule Changing Receipts Calculation to 5 Years, Implementing Small Business Runway Extension Act, June 24, 2019, Megan Connor. On June 24, 2019, the Small Business Administration (SBA) published its long-awaited proposed rule changing the period of measurement for a receipts-based size calculation from three years to five years. This change was prompted by the Small Business Runway Extension Act . . . Read More

SBA Issues Proposed Rule Changing Receipts Calculation to 5 Years, Implementing Small Business Runway Extension Act

On June 24, 2019, the Small Business Administration (SBA) published its long-awaited proposed rule changing the period of measurement for a receipts-based size calculation from three years to five years. This change was prompted by the Small Business Runway Extension Act (the Runway Act), which became law on December 17, 2018.  SBA was slow to implement this change because SBA believes that the Runway Act amended a section of the Small Business Act that does not apply to SBA.  “Nevertheless,” SBA says, . . . Read More