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# Five Recent Developments in Small Business Contracting Small and Large Government Contractors Should Know

  November 2016

Pratts Government Contracting Law Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

Partners [David Hickey](/Our-People/David-T-Hickey) and [William Jack](/Our-People/William-Jack), and senior associate [Beth Johnson](/Our-People/Elizabeth-C-Johnson) co-authored the *Pratt’s Government Contracting Law Report* ​“Five Recent Developments in Small Business Contracting Small and Large Government Contractors Should Know.” This article highlights five recent developments that every government contractor should know: VA guidance to Implement Kingdomware; significant changes to the limitation on subcontracting rule; changes to requirements for subcontracting plans; expansion of the mentor-protégé program; and revisions to the non-manufacturer rule.

 

 

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