Part 126 — HUBZone Program
Subpart A — Provisions of General Applicability
- § 126.100— What is the purpose of the HUBZone program?
- § 126.101— Which government departments or agencies are affected directly by the HUBZone program?
- § 126.102— What is the effect of the HUBZone program on the section 8(d) subcontracting program?
- § 126.103— What definitions are important in the HUBZone program?
- § 126.104— How can a Governor petition for the designation of a Governor-designated cover area?
- § 126.105— How often will the HUBZone Map be updated?
Subpart B — Requirements To Be a Certified HUBZone Small Business Concern
- § 126.200— What requirements must a concern meet to be eligible as a certified HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.201— Who does SBA consider to be an owner of a HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.202— Who does SBA consider to control a HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.204— May a HUBZone small business concern have affiliates?
- § 126.205— May participants in other SBA programs be certified as HUBZone small business concerns?
- § 126.206— May nonmanufacturers be certified as HUBZone small business concerns?
- § 126.207— Do all of the offices or facilities of a certified HUBZone small business concern have to be located in a HUBZone?
Subpart C — Certification
- § 126.300— How may a concern be certified as a HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.301— Is there any other way for a concern to obtain certification?
- § 126.302— When may a concern apply for certification?
- § 126.303— Where must a concern submit its application for certification?
- § 126.304— What must a concern submit to SBA in order to be certified as a HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.306— How will SBA process an application for HUBZone certification?
- § 126.307— Where is there a list of certified HUBZone small business concerns?
- § 126.308— What happens if a HUBZone small business concern receives notice of its certification but it does not appear in DSBS as a certified HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.309— May a declined or decertified concern apply for certification at a later date?
Subpart D — Program Examinations
- § 126.400— Who will conduct program examinations?
- § 126.401— What is a program examination?
- § 126.402— When will SBA conduct program examinations?
- § 126.403— What will SBA review during a program examination?
- § 126.404— What are the possible outcomes of a program examination and when will SBA make its determination?
Subpart E — Maintaining HUBZone Status
- § 126.500— How does a concern maintain HUBZone certification?
- § 126.501— What are a certified HUBZone small business concern's ongoing obligations to SBA?
- § 126.502— Is there a limit to the length of time a concern may be a certified HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.503— What happens if SBA is unable to verify a HUBZone small business concern's eligibility or determines that a concern is no longer eligible for the program?
- § 126.504— When will SBA remove the designation of a concern in DSBS (or successor system) as a certified HUBZone small business concern?
Subpart F — Contracting With Certified HUBZone Small Business Concerns
- § 126.600— What are HUBZone contracts?
- § 126.601— What additional requirements must a certified HUBZone small business concern meet to submit an offer on a HUBZone contract?
- § 126.602— Must a certified HUBZone small business concern maintain the HUBZone employee residency percentage during contract performance?
- § 126.603— Does HUBZone certification guarantee receipt of HUBZone contracts?
- § 126.604— Who decides if a contract opportunity for HUBZone set-aside competition exists?
- § 126.605— What requirements are not available for HUBZone contracts?
- § 126.606— May a procuring activity request that SBA release a requirement from the 8(a) BD program for award as a HUBZone contract?
- § 126.607— When may a contracting officer set aside a requirement for certified HUBZone small business concerns?
- § 126.608— Are there HUBZone contract opportunities at or below the simplified acquisition threshold or micropurchase threshold?
- § 126.609— Can a HUBZone competition be limited or authorize preferences to small business concerns having additional socioeconomic certifications?
- § 126.610— May SBA appeal a contracting officer's decision not to make a procurement available for award as a HUBZone contract?
- § 126.611— What is the process for an appeal of a contracting officer's decision not to issue a procurement as a HUBZone contract?
- § 126.612— When may a contracting officer award sole source contracts to HUBZone small business concerns?
- § 126.613— How does a price evaluation preference affect the bid of a certified HUBZone small business concern in full and open competition?
- § 126.615— May an other than small business participate on a HUBZone contract?
- § 126.616— What requirements must a joint venture satisfy to submit an offer and be eligible to perform on a HUBZone contract?
- § 126.617— Who decides contract disputes arising between a certified HUBZone small business concern and a contracting activity after the award of a HUBZone contract?
- § 126.618— How does a certified HUBZone small business concern's participation in a Mentor-Protégé relationship affect its participation in the HUBZone Program?
- § 126.619— When must a certified HUBZone small business concern recertify its status for a HUBZone contract?
Subpart G — Limitations on Subcontracting Requirements
Subpart H — Protests
- § 126.800— Who may protest the status of a certified HUBZone small business concern?
- § 126.801— How does an interested party file a HUBZone status protest?
- § 126.802— Who decides a HUBZone status protest?
- § 126.803— How will SBA process a HUBZone status protest and what are the possible outcomes?
- § 126.804— Will SBA decide all HUBZone status protests?
- § 126.805— What are the procedures for appeals of HUBZone status protest determinations?