OHA Guidelines For Size Determinations

This outline contains a selection of the most frequent size determination issues, and lists the case number of pertinent Size Appeal Decisions issued by the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA). The list include only those decisions issued between Sept. 19, 1995 and Aug. 11, 2005.

Please visit OHA’s Home Page at http://www.sba.gov/oha/ to download or print OHA’s recent decisions. You may contact OHA by e-mail Oha@sba.gov if you notice any errors, have comments, or need a copy of an older decision not posted on our Home Page.

You should note that the SBA has revised its size regulations at 13 C.F.R. Part 121 during the covered time period, therefore, some legal principles set out in OHA decisions may have been superseded. Among the most significant recent changes are those made on July 18, 2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 47244); May 21, 2004 (69 Fed. Reg. 29192) and Dec. 3, 2004 (69 Fed. Reg. 70180). To access these Federal Register articles, please visit: http://www.sba.gov/cgi-bin/byebye.pl?TO=http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html.

DISCLAIMER: The SBA's OHA has published these Guidelines for Size Determinations on the Internet only as a convenience to the public. They, along with the SBA's regulations are only a starting point for legal research on issues relating to size determinations. These Guidelines are not legal authority, and you should not rely on them as such. SBA's regulations (13 C.F.R. Parts 121 and 134) and OHA's size appeal decisions are the applicable legal authorities on which you must rely for all issues pertaining to size determinations and size appeals.

OHA Guidelines for Size Determinations