Webinar taught by Ken Brody 

The New Rules and How They Change Small Business Set-Aside Contracting

Date: March 19, 2024

Time: 9AM – 11:30AM (EDT)

Registration: Virginia PTAC website

This class is designed for government contractor business owners, contracting personnel, general counsel and other professionals in the small business community. The webinar will focus on key provisions and crucial issues concerning the new rules and how they change small business set-aside contracting.

Specific topics include:

• Establishing eligibility of Protégés and Mentors
• Negotiating the intricacies of a written Mentor-Protégé Agreement that complies with SBA requirements
• Benefits of Establishing a Mentor-Protégé agreement for both parties, including the ability to create joint ventures that can compete as small businesses under set-aside procurements
• Negotiating JV agreements between Mentors and Proteges
• Relaxation of SBA’s affiliation rules
• How limitations on subcontracting are calculated under the new SBA rule
• Explain how “similarly situated” subcontractors can be used in light of the new limitation on subcontracting rule
• Impact of limitation on subcontracting on teaming and subcontract agreements
• Consequences for not complying with SBA requirements

Virginia Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) affiliated with George Mason University. 

The Virginia PTAC is part of a nationwide program funded in part through a cooperative agreement with DOD, which provides free or nominally priced classes to businesses that want to learn about and participate in the government procurement process. The seminars are free classes.

The seminar will be taught by Ken Brody, a founding partner of the law firm of David, Brody and Dondershine, LLP, which is now known as Reston Law Group, LLP. Ken has over forty-three years of experience dealing with procurement issues, as a trial attorney with the Department of the Navy, and for the past 34 years in private practice. His practice focuses on representing government contractors, particularly small businesses, on all aspects of government contracting, including negotiating agreements, regulatory requirements, the small business programs, bid protests and litigating contract disputes. He also teaches classes for Virginia PTAC on Teaming and Subcontracting.