Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – September 10, 2026

 The Weekly Update recaps recent legislative and regulatory updates affecting government contractors and commercial businesses. If you have questions concerning this content, please email marketing@pilieromazza.com. _____________________________________________ GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS GovCon M&A and Security Clearances: What Buyers Need to Know When Acquiring a Cleared Contractor | The GovCon M&A Playbook, Part 5 PilieroMazza Blog; Author: Samuel S. Finnerty A private equity firm identifies an attractive government contractor. The company has strong margins, a healthy backlog, an experienced management team, and a significant amount of classified . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – September 3, 2026

 The Weekly Update recaps recent legislative and regulatory updates affecting government contractors and commercial businesses. If you have questions concerning this content, please email marketing@pilieromazza.com. _____________________________________________ GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS GovCon M&A and Past Performance: Can Buyers Use a Target’s Experience After an Acquisition? – The GovCon M&A Playbook, Part 4 PilieroMazza Blog; Author: Samuel S. Finnerty One of the most persistent misconceptions in GovCon M&A is that acquiring a contractor also means acquiring its past performance. Government contractors, investors, and acquirers frequently ask the . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – August 27, 2026

 The Weekly Update recaps recent legislative and regulatory updates affecting government contractors and commercial businesses. If you have questions concerning this content, please email marketing@pilieromazza.com. _____________________________________________ GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS GovCon Due Diligence: The Assets Investors and PE Buyers Need to Understand Before Closing – The GovCon M&A Playbook, Part 3 PilieroMazza Blog; Author: Samuel S. Finnerty A private equity fund acquires an SDVOSB with strong revenue, attractive contract vehicles, and a promising pipeline. The financial diligence checks out, and the customer relationships appear solid. . . . Read More

GovCon Due Diligence: The Assets Investors and PE Buyers Need to Understand Before Closing | The GovCon M&A Playbook, Part 3

A private equity fund acquires an SDVOSB with strong revenue, attractive contract vehicles, and a promising pipeline. The financial diligence checks out and the customer relationships appear solid. The employees stay and integration proceeds as planned. Then the buyer discovers the company can no longer compete for many of the opportunities that drove its growth projections. A major contract vehicle no longer offers the same access to future work. A mentor-protégé joint venture is less valuable than expected. A facility . . . Read More

Emily A. Spence

Emily is an experienced government contracts attorney who focuses on providing business-oriented solutions to government contractors on a broad range of federal procurement, corporate, and regulatory matters. Her practice focuses on helping businesses navigate the complexities of government contracting, including compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), conflict mitigation, bid protests, contract disputes, corporate transactions, and small business program requirements. Emily advises clients throughout the government contracting lifecycle, from pursuing and performing federal . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – August 20, 2026

 The Weekly Update recaps recent legislative and regulatory updates affecting government contractors and commercial businesses. If you have questions concerning this content, please email marketing@pilieromazza.com. _____________________________________________ GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS SBA to Propose Massive Changes to Its Small Business Size Standards, PilieroMazza Client Alert, Jon Williams, Meghan Leemon Today SBA published stunning proposed changes to its size standards, replacing the August 2025 proposed rule, which we discussed here, as well as revised size standards methodology. From time to time, SBA reviews and proposes changes to its . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – August 13, 2026

 The Weekly Update recaps recent legislative and regulatory updates affecting government contractors and commercial businesses. If you have questions concerning this content, please email marketing@pilieromazza.com. _____________________________________________ GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS SBA Finalizes Rule Regarding Social Disadvantage Requirements for Individually-Owned 8(a) Applicants PilieroMazza Client Alert, Meghan Leemon On August 11, just shy of 30 days after comments on the proposed rule closed, SBA issued a final rule entitled “Reforms to 13 CFR 124.103 to remove SBA’s 8(a) Program’s rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage for individually owned firms only. Reforms do . . . Read More

The LOI Problem: How the Present Effect Rule Creates Affiliation Risk Investors and PE Buyers Aren’t Pricing In | The GovCon M&A Playbook, Part 2

Private equity investors and strategic acquirers pursuing small business government contractors have largely absorbed one lesson from SBA’s 2025 recertification reforms. If a target has outstanding proposals for set-aside work, timing the close matters. Under SBA’s 180-day recertification rule, closing a transaction within 180 days of proposal submission can render a target ineligible for award if it cannot recertify as small. Close after day 180, and the target may remain eligible, but only for certain contracts. Single award set-aside contracts . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – August 6, 2026

  The Weekly Update recaps recent legislative and regulatory updates affecting government contractors and commercial businesses. If you have questions concerning this content, please email marketing@pilieromazza.com. _____________________________________________ GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS Strategi Consulting: A Jurisdictional Win for SBIR Contractors, PilieroMazza Blog, Lauren Brier, Adel Mansour In Strategi Consulting LLC v. United States, the plaintiff alleged that the United States Air Force (“USAF” or “Agency”) improperly continued developing software derived from Strategi’s Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) work through an affiliated agency organization rather than awarding . . . Read More

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – July 30, 2026

  The Weekly Update recaps recent legislative and regulatory updates affecting government contractors and commercial businesses. If you have questions concerning this content, please email marketing@pilieromazza.com. _____________________________________________ GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS Contract Claims 101: Claim Sponsorship, Part 7, PilieroMazza Blog, Lauren Brier, Adel Mansour Claim sponsorship is one of the most important and frequently overlooked aspects of federal subcontracting. Because subcontractors generally lack privity of contract with the Government, their ability to pursue recovery for government-caused impacts often depends entirely on the prime contractor’s ability . . . Read More