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The
certification of small, minority, and women owned firms is an effort
by local, State, Federal agencies and
 private firms to include such
groups in commercial business. The goal is to allow
socially and economically disadvantaged businesses to compete with
major corporations. Most agencies require you to wait 1-year
before you can re-apply if your certification is declined. All
certification programs require re-certification and graduation based
upon the size of the firm. We provide a CPA/MBA for review your business
and personal financial statements to check for potential eligibility
issues regarding your financial matters for your 8a Certification.
The goal is to maintain your certification for the full 9 years SBA
eligibility period. An SBA 8 (a) certified firm
can grow from a start-up and graduate from the program as a
multi-million company within 3-5 years. Just as a DBE or W/MBE
firm could because a midsize ($3-5 million) concessionaire in an
airport or as a primary material supplier for a government agency.
Hence, the certification of such firms assures the success of
minorities and women owned businesses. Every certification
agency requires recent
financial statements, detail
personal tax information, and business ownership documents. Our designated writers for each of the
types of certifications consider each application, socially
disadvantaged narrative and economically disadvantaged narrative.
SBA 8 (a) Certification
The 8a Certification Application is not
a typical application completed for any other State, local agency or
private firm because the SBA knows when they award an 8a
Certification the firm has obtained something special. Hence, RMD's
writers are skilled at pulling out the information from an
applicant's history that will meet the SBA's requirements for the
business owner. The 8a Certification two year waiver is a
comprehensive process designed to ensure that your firm applies with
a credible waiver for future successful government contract
completion. The two year waiver is not
 always intuitive and is
needed in applications for recent business acquisitions, sole
proprietorship becoming incorporated, as well as a business owner
leaving a firm in the same industry to start their own business. Your firm's annual SBA business plan
(form 1010c) is required as part of your annual compliance package.
This package is designed to determine if the firm has met its
business objectives and to see if a firm with 8a certification are continuing to follow the guidelines created by the SBA.
It is very important that the firm take the annual review that the
SBA performs seriously. If the SBA determines that the business
objectives of the firm have not been reached or that the owner is no
longer deemed to be economically disadvantaged due to incorrect firm
profit distribution the firm could be forced into early graduation
from the program.
The first step in getting government
contracts is becoming registered with the Central Contracting
Registry. 8acertification.net will handle the entire process of
getting a firm CCR Registration, make sure the information is
submitted accurately and that the NAICS code submitted for the firm
accurately portrays to federal agencies the line of business in
which the firm provides goods or services. The CCR and Dun and
Bradstreet (D&B) websites are linked through the DUNS Number
registration and if your firm does not have a DUNS number we will
set that up as well. If you later choose to use either a HUBZone
Application or 8a certification application the fee for the CCR
Registration will be deducted from the application price. Our
scope of services offered
document
includes RMD's fee structure.
DBE, W/MBE, SBE,
ACDBE, SBEC and Small
Business Certifications
 The
certification of a minority, small, or women owned firm by local and
State agencies is different for each agency; however, most intra
state agencies have some level of "reciprocity" between agencies.
The Economic Development Agencies of local and State agencies are dedicated to advancing economic prosperity for its businesses,
neighborhoods and residents. Economic Development Agencies work with
a wide variety of community partners to create a local environment
that stimulates balanced growth through job creation, business
assistance, housing options, neighborhood redevelopment and the
development of a skilled workforce. Each Economic Development Agency
provides programs and services and funds organizations that support
and identify minority, small, or women owned firms. The
minority, small, or women owned firms are provided with and
opportunity to own businesses in the following public venues;
Airport Concessions (Food and Retail and Services);
College and University Venues (Food and Retail and
Services);
Food and Retail and Services industries;
Healthcare Facilities;
Metro-Transportation Centers (Food and Retail and Services);
Professional Sports Venues (Food and Retail and Services);
Retail and Wholesale Centers;
Shopping Mall (Food and Retail and Services);
Telecommunications Facilities; and
Transportation Centers;
A review of our
sample engagement agreement will
provide details about the scope of services offered.
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