![]() We have previously discussed the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) changes to its joint venture regulations over the past few years, including regulations governing agencies’ evaluation of a joint venture’s past performance, prior experience, and capabilities. ( New Small Business Rules: Capabilities of Small Business Joint Venture Members and First-tier Subcontractors and New Small Business Regulation: Reliance on past Performance Gained as a Subcontractor or Joint Venture Member, for example.) These changes have largely favored joint ventures by allowing a joint venture offeror (which, under current regulations, is unpopulated and has only a limited time in which to win contracts) to rely upon the past performance, prior experience, and capabilities of its member companies in the aggregate. ![]() 23, 2023, 2023 WL 1860802. The decision addresses how agencies must evaluate the prior experience and past performance of joint venture members when a joint venture bids on a small business set-aside. This case law likely will drive changes in how joint ventures pursue set-aside opportunities and alter the way some agencies evaluate joint ventures’ proposals in competitions for federal contracts. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued an important new decision in the protest of AttainX,Inc.
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