[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 13, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 1999]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 13CFR124.1015]

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                               ASSISTANCE
 
                CHAPTER I--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 124--8(A) BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT/SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS STATUS DETERMINATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart B--Eligibility, Certification, and Protests Relating to Federal 
                  Small Disadvantaged Business Programs
 
Sec. 124.1015  What is the effect of receiving an SDB certification?

    (a) A firm that is certified to be an SDB may represent itself as an 
SDB for such purposes as Federal price evaluation adjustments, 
evaluation factors or subfactors, monetary subcontracting incentive 
programs, section 8(d) subcontracts, SDB set-asides, or any other 
programs which accept an SBA certification. A contracting officer may 
award a contract based on a firm's representation that it is a certified 
SDB absent a protest that the protested concern's circumstances have 
materially changed since SBA certified it as an SDB, or that the 
protested concern's SDB application contained false or misleading 
information (see Sec. 124.1018(d)).
    (b) For purposes of a particular Federal procurement, the firm must 
represent that it is both disadvantaged and small at the time it submits 
its initial offer including price (see part 121 of this title). At the 
same time, the firm must also represent that no material change has 
occurred in its SDB status since its SDB certification, or from the date 
of its application for SDB certification if its application has not yet 
been processed, and must specifically represent that the net worth of 
the disadvantaged individuals (not including concerns owned by tribes, 
ANCs, CDCs, or NHOs) upon whom the SDB certification was based still 
does not exceed $750,000.
    (c) A firm's status as ``disadvantaged'' or ``small'' may be 
protested pursuant to Secs. 124.1017 through 124.1021 and Secs. 121.1001 
through 121.1005, respectively, despite the presence of the firm on the 
SDB register, provided the protest contains specific allegations that 
the firm's circumstances have materially changed since SBA certified it 
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an SDB, or that the firm's SDB application contained false or misleading 
information.