SAME Small Business COI Webinar: SBA Recertifications and Their Impact on Small Business

About This Webinar

Financial growth and success are important goals for every small business government contractor. Continuous growth, however, can cause your company to exceed the size standards attached to your small business set-aside work. Even if you maintain your size and status, your business must meet a host of representation and certification requirements to continue competing under SBA’s small business programs.

Join Sam Finnerty and Meghan Leemon, attorneys in PilieroMazza’s Government Contracts Group, for a high-level briefing on representation and certification requirements for small business government contractors, the complex issues that arise around growth and size standards, and strategies for maintaining your competitive edge in the federal marketplace. They’ll cover:

• The basics of certification and recertification for small businesses;
• Triggering events that require recertification;
• Common pitfalls for small businesses; and
• Key recertification updates that may impact your business.

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Featured Presenters

Sam Finnerty

Partner, Piliero Mazza

Sam provides counsel to commercial businesses in a wide range of government contracting and litigation matters. His practice includes representing federal contractors to obtain favorable outcomes in bid protests before GAO and the COFC and in size and status protests before SBA and its Office of Hearings and Appeals. Sam also has extensive experience litigating and resolving claims, appeals, contract disputes, and general business torts. In addition, he advises clients on matters of regulatory compliance arising under the FAR and SBA regulations, including those related to recertification, the limitations on subcontracting, past performance evaluations/CPARS, organizational conflicts of interest, security clearances, and affiliation. Sam serves as Co-Chair of the Firm’s Construction Industry Team and is a member of the
Firm’s Government Contract Claims & Appeals Group.

From 2018 through the present, Super Lawyers® has recognized Sam as a “Rising Star” for his work with government contractors. He also earned JD Supra’s “Readers’ Choice Top Author 2020 Award” as one of their top 10 authors in government contracting.

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Meghan F Leemon

Associate, PilieroMazza

Meghan counsels government contractors and commercial businesses on a broad range of government contracting matters. She advises companies on small business procurement matters, particularly on issues related to eligibility and participation in small business federal procurement programs, such as the SBA’s SDVOSB, WOSB, 8(a) BD, and HUBZone programs as well as the All Small Mentor Protégé Program and the VA’s VetBiz VIP program. She also assists
clients in maintaining compliance with the FAR and small business regulations.

Meghan’s practice includes size protests and bid protests at all levels. She is also Co-Chair of PilieroMazza’s Government Contract Claims & Appeals Team, taking the lead on requests
for equitable adjustment and claims and appeals.

Meghan is experienced in defending employers against alleged discrimination complaints

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Mercedes O Enrique

President and owner, CMS Corporation

Mercedes Enrique is President and owner of CMS Corporation, a federal government construction contractor. Since 2004, CMS has grown from one to five locations and from 8 to 100 employees. CMS has successfully captured Department of Defense multi-year contracts with $6.6 billion in contract capacity spanning 30 states, Guam and a worldwide contract. She serves on the Indiana Chamber Board, is an SAME Fellow and very active with the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), the Mid-States Minority Supplier Diversity Council and the Latino Business Action Network. She earned a BSE in Computer Engineering and MBA in Finance from the University of Toledo.

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