SBA Size Protest Timing – Long Term Contracts

One area that we intend to cover with great interest here at the Fox Rothschild Federal Government Contracts and Procurement Blog is the dealings of the Small Business Administration ("SBA").  The SBA is the federal agency that promulgates the rules and regulations for small businesses across the country that do work with and for the government.  Today, we'll be looking at a particular area of SBA jurisdiction – small business size protests.

In addressing the topic previously, we explained that SBA size challenges can be an incredibly powerful tool used to assert that a small business set-aside contract was awarded to an other-than-small business.  Size protests have a low initiation threshold (that is, they can be filed based on inexact evidence), but quick turnaround times.  Specifically, size protests generally must be filed within five business days of bid opening (for non-negotiated procurements) or from the date the protestor receives notice of the identity