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Mentor-Protégé Program
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Food Safety News
IAFP offers free mentorship program
By News Desk
The International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) is offering a free Mentor Match program for members. The program is part of the IAFP’s commitment to the professional development of its…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Fastest 5 Minutes: New EO on Climate-Related Risk, Mentor-Protégé JV Size Determination, FedRAMP
By Peter J. Eyre, Olivia Lynch
This week's episode covers a new Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk, the final DFARS provision on contract closeout, a new SBA decision involving a mentor-protégé joint venture, and a…
The Contractor's Perspective
GAO Confirms Yet Another Benefit of Mentor-Protégé Programs
Mentor-protégé programs, such as the government-wide one at the SBA for all small business concerns, are designed to help small contractors engage in federal contracting by allowing larger, more experienced…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
GAO Sustains Challenge to Evaluation Language Requiring a Joint Venture Protégé Member to Have the Same Experience as Other Offerors
By Olivia Lynch, Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Michael Samuels, Zachary Schroeder
The Government Accountability Office sustained a protest (Innovate Now, LLC, B-419546, April 26, 2021) against an Air Force solicitation that required the protégé member of any mentor-protégé joint venture offeror to…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
SBA’s Recent Rulemaking Changes to the 8(a) Business Development Program
By Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Olivia Lynch, Michael Samuels, Zachary Schroeder
In a previous blog post, we covered the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) consolidation of the 8(a) Business Development (BD) Mentor-Protégé Program and the All Small Mentor-Protégé Program. Beyond consolidating the…
Texas Bar Blog
Dallas Bar Association and Dallas Association of Young Lawyers launch mentorship program
The Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers are launching the 2021 STEER program, a mentorship program that focuses on cultivating relationships and providing substantive and practical…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
SBA’s Recent Rulemaking “Consolidation of Mentor Protégé Programs and Other Government Contracting Amendments”
By Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Olivia Lynch, Michael Samuels, Zachary Schroeder
Last year, on November 8, 2019, the Small Business Administration (SBA) published a comprehensive proposal to revise various aspects of its regulations in response to President Trump’s executive order calling…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Changes to the SBA’s Mentor-Protégé Programs
By Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Olivia Lynch, Michael Samuels, Zachary Schroeder
The Consolidation of the 8(a) Business Development and All Small Mentor-Protégé Programs The headline change from this rule is the consolidation of SBA’s decades-old 8(a) Business Development (BD) Mentor-Protégé Program…
The Federal Government Contracts & Procurement Blog
Join Fox for a Four-Part Web Series on the SBA’s New Final Rule
Fox is excited to announce a new four-part Web Series covering the Small Business Administration’s Final Rule: Consolidation of Mentor-Protégé Programs and Other Government Contracting Amendments. The Final Rule is…
BuildSmart
SBA Issues Sweeping Regulatory Changes in Response to Presidential Initiative
By Aron C. Beezley, Nathaniel J. Greeson
The Small Business Administration (SBA) recently published a much-anticipated final rule on a series of important regulatory amendments, including the: Consolidation of the 8(a) Business Development (BD) Mentor-Protégé Program and…