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Appeals from Determinations of 8(a) BD Eligibility, Early Graduation, or Termination
1. What is the time limit for filing an 8(a) appeal?
You must file your 8(a) appeal with OHA within 45 calendar days of receiving the SBA determination being appealed. 13 C.F.R. § 134.404. OHA must receive your appeal by 5 pm EST on the forty-fifth day.
We accept appeals by email at ohafilings@sba.gov, upload and also by fax at (202) 205-7059. Appeals sent to other email addresses and other fax numbers are not formal filings.
We now accept appeals via the Hearing and Appeals Submission Upload (HASU) Application. The HASU can be found here (https://sft.sba.gov/envelope/OHAFilings). Please note that submitting an appeal using HASU is not required and HASU is only used to transmit the appeal to OHA. The submitter is responsible for serving a copy of the appeal to all appropriate parties. If you submitted your appeal using another method (email, fax, mail), you DO NOT need to submit the appeal using HASU. Submissions must be in PDF format and cannot be larger than 20MB. HASU will provide you with a timestamp showing when the appeal was submitted. Please call OHA at (202) 401-8200 to confirm that we received your filing.
3. What else must I do?
If filing an early graduation or termination appeal, in addition to OHA, you must also send your appeal to:
SBA Director of Business Development
Associate General Counsel for Litigation, 13 C.F.R. § 134.403(b)(1)
If filing an appeal of denial of program admission, suspension of program assistance, or denial of a request for waiver, in addition to OHA, you must also send your appeal to:
Associate General Counsel for Procurement Law, 13 C.F.R. § 134.403(b)(2)
A certificate of service. 13 C.F.R. § 134.204(d). The certificate of service shows that you sent a copy of your appeal to the people in the paragraph above. Here are sample certificates of service for an appeal of eligibility denial, an appeal of early graduation/termination, and an appeal of suspension of program assistance.
A copy of the SBA determination being appealed
A statement of basis for OHA’s jurisdiction (i.e., denial of program entry under 13 C.F.R. §§ 124.206 and 134.102(j)(1))
The reason(s) why SBA’s determination is arbitrary, capricious, or contrary to law
The 8(a) program regulations are available at 13 C.F.R. part 124. OHA’s regulations are available at 13 C.F.R. §§ 134.101-229 and 401-09. You may search OHA’s decisions interpreting these regulations in our database.
7. I have filed my appeal. Now what happens?
If practicable, the Administrative Law Judge will issue a written decision within 90 calendar days of the date you filed your appeal.
DISCLAIMER: WE PROVIDE THIS LIMITED INFORMATION TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES FILE AN APPEAL. COMPLETE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT 13 C.F.R. PART 124 AND 13 C.F.R. §§ 134.101-229 and 401-09.