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- Forming Your Joint Venture as a Separate Legal Entity November 10, 2026Joint ventures are quite popular in federal contracting. And for good reason. Joint ventures allow contractors to team up to pursue and perform federal set-aside contracts and subcontracts–combining their past performance, experience, and capabilities and sharing their costs and resources. They allow contractors that are not quite ready or capable to take on a full […]Nicole Pottroff
- SmallGovCon Week in Review: November 2-6, 2026 November 6, 2026Happy Friday and happy November! It’s time to start thinking about that Thanksgiving turkey dinner and, if you’re inclined to get an early start, begin your Christmas shopping! Enjoy that nice fall weather this weekend as you stay up to date on latest in federal contracting news. This week in federal government contracting, be sure […]Shane McCall
- Upzoned: SBA Touts HUBZone Expansion, What Has Changed? November 5, 2026The HUBZone Program generally has received less attention from SBA than its counterparts in the 8(a) Business Development, WOSB, and SDVOSB Programs. However, over the past couple years, SBA has given it a little more attention than it has received in the past, with proposed changes in 2024 later becoming finalized that same year to […]John Holtz
- Too Close at Hand: Agency Evaluation of Past Performance November 3, 2026Past performance is an important part of the agency evaluation process—we’ve written about it many times before for a reason. Like other evaluation areas, agencies get a great deal of discretion in evaluating past performance. Perhaps a contractor thinks it has a good past performance record and wants the agency to consider it; perhaps the […]Will Orlowski