When a project is set-aside, offers will only being accepted from firms qualified to compete. Only small business firms may submit an offer.
Offerors certify themselves as small business concerns at the time they submit their offers.
No size status pre-certification through the Corps, SBA or other Federal Agency is required. The US Army Corps of Engineers is part of DoD and is therefore unable to utilize the SDB set-aside or preference programs. In order to meet the Subcontracting Plan floors , the Corps of Engineers complies with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and its supplements, which implement the Small Business Act of 1953. The large business contractor is required to advise the government of its estimated subcontract award dollars under the contract, and is required to identify the amounts that are targeted for small, small disadvantaged, HUBZone, and women-owned small business firms. Generally, the contractor is required to provide goals that are at least equivalent to the ones listed above.