When your company is sold or restructured, your government contracts do not transfer automatically. The Anti-Assignment Act, the novation process, and size recertification can make or break the deal. Here is what to know before you sign.

A joint venture or SBA mentor-protege arrangement lets a small business team with a bigger partner and still win set-asides. But the JV agreement, the work split, and the performance-of-work rules have to be exactly right, or you lose the protection.

The 8(a) program is a powerful runway for disadvantaged small businesses, but it demands genuine ownership, real control, and honest eligibility. Get the rules wrong and you can lose the program or face fraud exposure.

The HUBZone program ties your eligibility to your location and your workforce. Miss the principal office or the 35 percent residency requirement and you can lose your status, and misrepresenting it is fraud.

The women-owned small business program requires real ownership and real control, backed by formal certification. Misrepresenting either is set-aside fraud with False Claims Act exposure. Here is how to stay eligible and clean.

SBA's final rule removing the 8(a) rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage is now in effect — a contested change some call a constitutional fix and others call a retreat. Both sides, explained.

Willfully misrepresenting your small-business size or status can trigger a presumed loss equal to the full contract value — and FCA treble damages — even if you performed perfectly.

Federal law protects contractor employees who report waste, fraud, or law violations — and punishes retaliation. With whistleblower suits at a record, this matters.

If your employees perform acquisition functions close to inherently governmental work, FAR requires you to prevent personal conflicts of interest. Here's the duty.

Hiring former government officials creates personal conflict-of-interest and post-employment risk that the contractor — not just the employee — has to manage.