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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 252: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 252.2

DFARS 252.219-7000 Advancing Small Business Growth.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This DFARS provision tells offerors that by accepting a contract resulting from this solicitation, they may exceed the small business size standard for the assigned NAICS code and would no longer qualify as a small business for that code. It encourages offerors to develop the capabilities and characteristics typically desired in contractors that compete as other-than-small contractors in the industry.

Applies to: Offerors responding to solicitations that include this provision

Key terms: small business size standard · NAICS code · small business concern · APEX Accelerator · procurement technical assistance

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 219.309(1), use the following provision:

Advancing Small Business Growth (JUN 2023)

(a) This provision implements 10 U.S.C. 4959.

(b) The Offeror acknowledges by submission of its offer that by acceptance of the contract resulting from this solicitation, the Offeror may exceed the applicable small business size standard of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to the contract and would no longer qualify as a small business concern for that NAICS code. Small business size standards matched to industry NAICS codes are published by the Small Business Administration and are available at 13 CFR 121.201 and https://www.sba.gov/document/support-table-size-standards. The Offeror is therefore encouraged to develop the capabilities and characteristics typically desired in contractors that are competitive as other-than-small contractors in this industry.

(c) For procurement technical assistance, the Offeror may contact the nearest APEX Accelerator. APEX Accelerator locations are available at https://www.apexaccelerators.us.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 219.309 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.

Sections that refer to it

  • 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
  • 219.309 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.

← 252.217-7028 Over and above work. · 252.219-7001—252.219-7002 [Reserved] →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 252

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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