Mitchell Bashur and Amy L. Fuentes are associates in
Holland & Knight's
Tysons office
Earlier this week, we covered the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs's (VA) publication of a final rule amending its Veteran-Owned Small
Business (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
(SDVOSB) Guidelines. We anticipated that the U.S. Small Business
Administration (SBA) would publish a corresponding final rule this
week so that there was one set of consolidated rules governing
VOSBs and SDVOSBs by the VA and SBA. As predicted, the SBA published its final rules amending its SDVOSB
Guidelines with an effective date of Oct. 1, 2018. Notably,
this gives contractors only the weekend to read and digest the
substantive changes made by the SBA's final rule, which go into
effect this Monday, Oct. 1, 2018.
