Evaluation of Withdrawals and Terminations from SBA’s All Small Mentor-Protégé Program

The All Small Mentor-Protégé Program (ASMPP) is designed to enhance the capabilities of protégé firms by requiring approved mentors to provide business development assistance to protégé firms and to improve the protégé firms’ ability to successfully compete for federal contracts. The purpose of this evaluation was to assess why firms decided to withdraw their applications or voluntarily terminate their participation in the ASMPP. This evaluation investigated the factors that impacted the firms’ decision to discontinue its involvement with the program and collected information on the types of improvements the SBA might consider in order to enhance the experience of program participants.