Proposed Rule 22 Aug 2025 regulatory compliance, small business, government procurement, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, investigations, federal government, small businesses, authority delegations (government agencies), individuals with disabilities, sba, investment companies, government property, loan programs-business, grant programs-business, size standards

📈Proposed Changes to Small Business Size Standards by SBA

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or the Agency) proposes to increase its monetary based small business size definitions (commonly referred to as "size standards") for 263 industries (259 receipts based and four assets based). SBA proposes to retain receipts based size standards for 237 industries and 12 subindustries ("exceptions") and remove one exception. SBA's proposal relied on its recently revised "Size Standards Methodology" (Revised Methodology). SBA seeks comments on its proposed changes to size standards and data sources it evaluated to develop the proposed size standards. SBA also invites comments on its proposed policy of not lowering any size standards, except for excluding dominant firms from qualifying as small. In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(4), a summary of this rule may be found at www.regulations.gov.

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