Part 121 — Small Business Size Regulations
Current through Sep 29, 2026
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 632, 634(b)(6), 636(a)(36), 662, and 694a(9).
Source: 61 FR 3286, Jan. 31, 1996, unless otherwise noted.
Editorial Note: Nomenclature changes to part 121 appear at 72 FR 50039 and 50040, Aug. 30, 2007.
Sections
- § 121.101 What are SBA size standards?
- § 121.102 How does SBA establish size standards?
- § 121.103 How does SBA determine affiliation?
- § 121.104 How does SBA calculate annual receipts?
- § 121.105 How does SBA define “business concern or concern”?
- § 121.106 How does SBA calculate number of employees?
- § 121.107 How does SBA determine a concern's “primary industry”?
- § 121.108 What are the penalties for misrepresentation of size status?
- § 121.109 What is a small business status advisory opinion?
- § 121.110 What must a concern do in order to be identified as a small business concern in any Federal procurement databases?
- § 121.201 What size standards has SBA identified by North American Industry Classification System codes?
- § 121.301 What size standards and affiliation principles are applicable to financial assistance programs?
- § 121.302 When does SBA determine the size status of an applicant?
- § 121.303 What size procedures are used by SBA before it makes a formal size determination?
- § 121.304 What are the size requirements for refinancing an existing SBA loan?
- § 121.305 What size eligibility requirements exist for obtaining financial assistance relating to particular procurements?
- § 121.401 What procurement programs are subject to size determinations?
- § 121.402 What size standards are applicable to Federal Government Contracting programs?
- § 121.403 Are SBA size determinations and NAICS code designations binding on parties?
- § 121.404 When is the size status of a business concern determined?
- § 121.405 May a business concern self-certify its small business size status?
- § 121.406 How does a small business concern qualify to provide manufactured products or other supply items under a small business set-aside, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone, WOSB or EDWOSB, or 8(a) contract?
- § 121.407 What are the size procedures for multiple item procurements?
- § 121.408 What are the size procedures for SBA's Certificate of Competency Program?
- § 121.409 What size standard applies in an unrestricted procurement for Certificate of Competency purposes?
- § 121.410 What are the size standards for SBA's Section 8(d) Subcontracting Program?
- § 121.411 What are the size procedures for SBA's Section 8(d) Subcontracting Program?
- § 121.412 What are the size procedures for partial small business set-asides?
- § 121.501 What programs for sales or leases of Government property are subject to size determinations?
- § 121.502 What size standards are applicable to programs for sales or leases of Government property?
- § 121.503 Are SBA size determinations binding on parties?
- § 121.504 When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?
- § 121.505 What is the effect of a self-certification?
- § 121.506 What definitions are important for sales or leases of Government-owned timber?
- § 121.507 What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned timber (other than Special Salvage Timber)?
- § 121.508 What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned Special Salvage Timber?
- § 121.509 What is the size standard for leasing of Government land for coal mining?
- § 121.510 What is the size standard for leasing of Government land for uranium mining?
- § 121.511 What is the size standard for buying Government-owned petroleum?
- § 121.512 What is the size standard for stockpile purchases?
- § 121.601 What is a small business for purposes of admission to SBA's 8(a) Business Development program?
- § 121.602 At what point in time must a 8(a) BD applicant be small?
- § 121.603 How does SBA determine whether a Participant is small for a particular 8(a) BD subcontract?
- § 121.604 Are 8(a) BD Participants considered small for purposes of other SBA assistance?
- § 121.701 What SBIR and STTR programs are subject to size and eligibility determinations and what definitions are important?
- § 121.702 What size and eligibility standards are applicable to the SBIR and STTR programs?
- § 121.703 Are formal size determinations binding on parties?
- § 121.704 When does SBA determine the size and eligibility status of a business concern?
- § 121.705 Must a business concern self-certify its size and eligibility status?
- § 121.801 May patent fees be reduced if a concern is small?
- § 121.802 What size standards are applicable to reduced patent fees programs?
- § 121.803 Are formal size determinations binding on parties?
- § 121.804 When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?
- § 121.805 May a business concern self-certify its size status?
- § 121.901 Can other Government agencies obtain SBA size determinations?
- § 121.902 What size standards are applicable to programs of other agencies?
- § 121.903 How may an agency use size standards for its programs that are different than those established by SBA?
- § 121.904 When does SBA determine the size status of a business concern?
- § 121.1001 Who may initiate a size protest or request a formal size determination?
- § 121.1002 Who makes a formal size determination?
- § 121.1003 Where should a size protest be filed?
- § 121.1004 What time limits apply to size protests?
- § 121.1005 How must a protest be filed with the contracting officer?
- § 121.1006 When will a size protest be referred to an SBA Government Contracting Area Office?
- § 121.1007 Must a protest of size status relate to a particular procurement and be specific?
- § 121.1008 What occurs after SBA receives a size protest or request for a formal size determination?
- § 121.1009 What are the procedures for making the size determination?
- § 121.1010 How does a concern become recertified as a small business?
- § 121.1101 Are formal size determinations subject to appeal?
- § 121.1102 Are NAICS code designations subject to appeal?
- § 121.1103 What are the procedures for appealing a NAICS code or size standard designation?
- § 121.1201 What is the Nonmanufacturer Rule?
- § 121.1202 When will a waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule be granted for a class of products?
- § 121.1203 When will a waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule be granted for an individual contract?
- § 121.1204 What are the procedures for requesting and granting waivers?
- § 121.1205 How is a list of previously granted class waivers obtained?
- § 121.1206 How will potential offerors be notified of applicable waivers?
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