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Its primary objectives are job creation and increased capital investment in distressed communities. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the program. As of November 27, 2019, the SBA\u2019s Dynamic Small Business Search database included 7,183 firms with active HUBZone certifications.\nIn FY2018, the federal government awarded $9.8 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses. About $2.3 billion of that amount was awarded with a HUBZone preference ($2.1 billion through a HUBZone set-aside, $112.6 million through a HUBZone sole-source award, and $100.7 million through a HUBZone price-evaluation preference). About $1.8 billion was awarded to HUBZone-certified businesses in open competition with other firms. 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The remaining $4.10 billion was awarded with another small business preference (e.g., set aside and sole source awards for small business generally and for 8(a), women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses). \nThe HUBZone program\u2019s administrative cost is about $8.4 million annually. It received an appropriation of $3.0 million for FY2019, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for salaries and general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to GAO reports of fraud in the program and efforts by small businesses to ease HUBZone eligibility requirements.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines HUBZone-related legislation, including\nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which, among other provisions, expanded the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extended BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provided HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and added Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nP.L. 115-91, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, which, among other provisions, allows small businesses that have HUBZone status on or before December 31, 2019, to retain that status from January 1, 2020, until the SBA prepares an updated online tool depicting HUBZone qualified areas (anticipated by the SBA to take place in December 2021). Once the new online tool (currently called the HUBZone map) is operational, the SBA must update it every five years for qualified census tracts and nonmetropolitan counties and when a change in status takes place for other HUBZone types (e.g., when an area becomes or ceases to be a redesignated area). The act also allows governors, starting on January 1, 2020, to petition the SBA each year to designate areas located in nonurban areas, with a population of 50,000 or fewer, and an average unemployment rate at least 120% of the national or state average, whichever is lower, as HUBZones; requires the SBA to process HUBZone certification applications with sufficient and complete documentation within 60 days of receipt; ensures that HUBZone-eligible BRAC areas receive HUBZone eligibility for a full eight years, beginning on the date they are designated a BRAC; and requires the SBA, not later than one year after enactment, to publish performance metrics measuring the HUBZone program\u2019s success in promoting economic development in economically distressed areas.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "https://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41268", "sha1": "cb242efa562d62fec68c6b7d409791520e1899f8", "filename": "files/20190403_R41268_cb242efa562d62fec68c6b7d409791520e1899f8.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "https://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41268", "sha1": "e4f0251189e09317bff01d6ea3815586457b1906", "filename": "files/20190403_R41268_e4f0251189e09317bff01d6ea3815586457b1906.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 587378, "date": "2018-11-08", "retrieved": "2018-11-08T23:11:00.006698", "title": "Small Business Administration HUBZone Program", "summary": "The Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty, or high unemployment with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Its primary objectives are job creation and increased capital investment in distressed communities. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the program. As of November 8, 2018, the SBA\u2019s Dynamic Small Business Search database included 6,558 firms with active HUBZone certifications.\nIn FY2017, the federal government awarded 81,082 contracts valued at $7.53 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses. About $1.90 billion of that amount was awarded with a HUBZone preference ($1.49 billion through a HUBZone set-aside, $65.3 million through a HUBZone sole-source award, and $346.9 million through a HUBZone price-evaluation preference). About $1.53 billion of that amount was awarded to HUBZone-certified businesses in open competition with other firms. The remaining $4.10 billion was awarded with another small business preference (e.g., set aside and sole source awards for small business generally and for 8(a), women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses). \nThe HUBZone program\u2019s administrative cost is about $8.4 million annually. It received an appropriation of $3.0 million for FY2018, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for salaries and general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to GAO reports of fraud in the program and efforts by small businesses to ease HUBZone eligibility requirements.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines HUBZone-related legislation, including\nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which, among other provisions, expanded the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extended BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provided HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and added Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nP.L. 115-91, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, which, among other provisions, allows small businesses that have HUBZone status on or before December 31, 2019, to retain that status from January 1, 2020, until the SBA prepares an updated online tool depicting HUBZone qualified areas (anticipated by the SBA to take place in December 2021). Once the new online tool (currently called the HUBZone map) is operational, the SBA must update it every five years for qualified census tracts and nonmetropolitan counties and when a change in status takes place for other HUBZone types (e.g., when an area becomes or ceases to be a redesignated area). The act also allows governors, starting on January 1, 2020, to petition the SBA each year to designate areas located in nonurban areas, with a population of 50,000 or fewer, and an average unemployment rate at least 120% of the national or state average, whichever is lower, as HUBZones; requires the SBA to process HUBZone certification applications with sufficient and complete documentation within 60 days of receipt; ensures that HUBZone-eligible BRAC areas receive HUBZone eligibility for a full eight years, beginning on the date they are designated a BRAC; and requires the SBA, not later than one year after enactment, to publish performance metrics measuring the HUBZone program\u2019s success in promoting economic development in economically distressed areas.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41268", "sha1": "afd590e70d8881c8072c6cd924a77001ed66a3e2", "filename": "files/20181108_R41268_afd590e70d8881c8072c6cd924a77001ed66a3e2.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41268", "sha1": "e1062b2bea944a9a0825b33dbbba88db3e5ae246", "filename": "files/20181108_R41268_e1062b2bea944a9a0825b33dbbba88db3e5ae246.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 584112, "date": "2018-06-05", "retrieved": "2018-08-27T15:12:11.412286", "title": "Small Business Administration HUBZone Program", "summary": "The Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty, or high unemployment with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Its primary objectives are job creation and increased capital investment in distressed communities. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the program. As of June 5, 2018, the SBA\u2019s Dynamic Small Business Search database included 6,243 firms with active HUBZone certifications.\nIn FY2017, the federal government awarded 81,082 contracts valued at $7.53 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses. About $1.90 billion of that amount was awarded with a HUBZone preference ($1.49 billion through a HUBZone set-aside, $65.3 million through a HUBZone sole-source award, and $346.9 million through a HUBZone price-evaluation preference). About $1.53 billion of that amount was awarded to HUBZone-certified businesses in open competition with other firms. The remaining $4.10 billion was awarded with another small business preference (e.g., set aside and sole source awards for small business generally and for 8(a), women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses). \nThe HUBZone program\u2019s administrative cost is about $8.4 million annually. It received an appropriation of $3.0 million for FY2018, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for salaries and general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to GAO reports of fraud in the program and efforts by small businesses to ease HUBZone eligibility requirements.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines HUBZone-related legislation, including\nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which, among other provisions, expanded the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extended BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provided HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and added Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nP.L. 115-91, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, which, among other provisions, allows small businesses that have HUBZone status on or before December 31, 2019, to retain that status from January 1, 2020, until the SBA prepares an updated online tool depicting HUBZone qualified areas (anticipated by the SBA to take place in December 2021). Once the new online tool (currently called the HUBZone map) is operational, the SBA must update it every five years for qualified census tracts and nonmetropolitan counties and when a change in status takes place for other HUBZone types (e.g., when an area becomes or ceases to be a redesignated area). The act also allows governors, starting on January 1, 2020, to petition the SBA each year to designate areas located in nonurban areas, with a population of 50,000 or fewer, and an average unemployment rate at least 120% of the national or state average, whichever is lower, as HUBZones; requires the SBA to process HUBZone certification applications with sufficient and complete documentation within 60 days of receipt; ensures that HUBZone-eligible BRAC areas receive HUBZone eligibility for a full eight years, beginning on the date they are designated a BRAC; and requires the SBA, not later than one year after enactment, to publish performance metrics measuring the HUBZone program\u2019s success in promoting economic development in economically distressed areas.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41268", "sha1": "8c837308c850f1dbe8ea51341401faaf83124c22", "filename": "files/20180605_R41268_8c837308c850f1dbe8ea51341401faaf83124c22.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41268", "sha1": "5ad81780592785e52708b1d29743e4f6e8177132", "filename": "files/20180605_R41268_5ad81780592785e52708b1d29743e4f6e8177132.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 577900, "date": "2018-01-26", "retrieved": "2018-01-30T14:03:40.750312", "title": "Small Business Administration HUBZone Program", "summary": "The Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty, or high unemployment with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Its primary objectives are job creation and increased capital investment in distressed communities. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the program. As of January 26, 2017, the SBA\u2019s Dynamic Small Business Search database included 6,026 firms with active HUBZone certifications.\nIn FY2017, the federal government awarded 80,602 contracts valued at $7.53 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses. About $1.90 billion of that amount was awarded with a HUBZone preference ($1.49 billion through a HUBZone set-aside, $65.3 million through a HUBZone sole-source award, and $342.5 million through a HUBZone price-evaluation preference). About $1.53 billion of that amount was awarded to HUBZone-certified businesses in open competition with other firms. The remaining $4.10 billion was awarded with another small business preference (e.g., set aside and sole source awards for small business generally and for 8(a), women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses). \nThe HUBZone program\u2019s administrative cost is about $8.4 million annually. It received an appropriation of $3.0 million for FY2018, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for salaries and general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to GAO reports of fraud in the program and efforts by small businesses to ease HUBZone eligibility requirements.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines HUBZone-related legislation, including\nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which, among other provisions, expanded the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extended BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provided HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and added Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nP.L. 115-91, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, which, among other provisions, allows small businesses that have HUBZone status on or before December 31, 2019 to retain that status from January 1, 2020 until the SBA prepares an updated online tool depicting HUBZone qualified areas (anticipated by the SBA to take place in December 2021). Once the new online tool (currently called the HUBZone map) is operational, the SBA must update it every five years for qualified census tracts and nonmetropolitan counties and when a change in status takes place for other HUBZone types (e.g., when an area becomes or ceases to be a redesignated area). The act also allows governors, starting on January 1, 2020, to petition the SBA each year to designate areas located in non-urban areas, with a population of 50,000 or fewer, and an average unemployment rate at least 120% of the national or state average, whichever is lower, as HUBZones; requires the SBA to process HUBZone certification applications with sufficient and complete documentation within 60 days of receipt; ensures that HUBZone-eligible BRAC areas receive HUBZone eligibility for a full eight years, beginning on the date they are designated a BRAC; and requires the SBA, not later than one year after enactment, to publish performance metrics measuring the HUBZone program\u2019s success in promoting economic development in economically distressed areas.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41268", "sha1": "800011767efab3aaaa21bca31be19d36103e4574", "filename": "files/20180126_R41268_800011767efab3aaaa21bca31be19d36103e4574.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41268", "sha1": "e2cbacd19667bf4bbc9753d75c2e637161d756bb", "filename": "files/20180126_R41268_e2cbacd19667bf4bbc9753d75c2e637161d756bb.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 576748, "date": "2017-12-15", "retrieved": "2017-12-19T13:49:05.840611", "title": "Small Business Administration HUBZone Program", "summary": "The Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty, or high unemployment with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Its primary objectives are job creation and increased capital investment in distressed communities. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the program. As of December 15, 2017, the SBA\u2019s Dynamic Small Business Search database included 5,961 firms with active HUBZone certifications.\nIn FY2017, the federal government awarded 76,163 contracts valued at $6.50 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses. About $1.50 billion of that amount was awarded with a HUBZone preference ($1.24 billion through a HUBZone set-aside, $59.0 million through a HUBZone sole-source award, and $206.6 million through a HUBZone price-evaluation preference). About $1.37 billion of that amount was awarded to HUBZone-certified businesses in open competition with other firms. The remaining $3.62 billion was awarded with another small business preference (e.g., set aside and sole source awards for small business generally and for 8(a), women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses). \nThe HUBZone program\u2019s administrative cost is about $8.4 million annually. It received an appropriation of $3.0 million for FY2018, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for salaries and general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to GAO reports of fraud in the program and efforts by small businesses to ease HUBZone eligibility requirements.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines HUBZone-related legislation, including\nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which, among other provisions, expanded the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extended BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provided HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and added Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nP.L. 115-91, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, which, among other provisions, freezes the SBA\u2019s HUBZone map (and program eligibility) until January 1, 2020, and transitions the program to map updates (and program eligibility updates) every five years after 2020; allows governors to petition the SBA each year to designate areas located in non-urban areas, with a population of 50,000 or fewer, and an average unemployment rate at least 120% of the national or state average, whichever is lower, as HUBZones; requires the SBA to process HUBZone certification applications with sufficient and complete documentation within 60 days of receipt; ensures that HUBZone-eligible BRAC areas receive HUBZone eligibility for a full eight years, beginning on the date they are designated a BRAC; and requires the SBA, not later than one year after enactment, to publish performance metrics measuring the HUBZone program\u2019s success in promoting economic development in economically distressed areas.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41268", "sha1": "49a26be83eacb1d77bafb0bced930c1b4eb81fd8", "filename": "files/20171215_R41268_49a26be83eacb1d77bafb0bced930c1b4eb81fd8.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41268", "sha1": "8c048f1dfdd6130d8a910b9091f2693e144a971b", "filename": "files/20171215_R41268_8c048f1dfdd6130d8a910b9091f2693e144a971b.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 463222, "date": "2017-08-10", "retrieved": "2017-08-22T13:27:24.336272", "title": "Small Business Administration HUBZone Program", "summary": "The Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty, or high unemployment with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Its primary objectives are job creation and increased capital investment in distressed communities. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the program. As of August 10, 2017, the SBA\u2019s Dynamic Small Business Search database included 5,816 firms with active HUBZone certifications.\nIn FY2016, the federal government awarded 86,600 contracts valued at $7.13 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses, with about $1.69 billion of that amount awarded through open competition with other firms, $1.65 billion awarded through a HUBZone set-aside, $33.5 million through a HUBZone sole-source award, and $5.2 million with a HUBZone price-evaluation preference. The remaining contracts (about $3.75 billion) were awarded with another small business preference (e.g., set asides and sole source awards for small business generally and for 8(a), women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses). The program\u2019s anticipated administrative cost for FY2017 is about $8.4 million. Its FY2017 appropriation is $3.0 million, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for salaries and general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of fraud in the program. Some Members have called for the program\u2019s termination. Others have recommended that the SBA continue its efforts to improve its administration of the program, especially its efforts to prevent fraud.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines \nP.L. 111-240, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which removed certain language from the Small Business Act that had prompted federal courts and GAO to find that HUBZone set-asides have \u201cprecedence\u201d over other small business set-asides. \nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which includes a provision that expands the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extends BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provides HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and adds Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nS. 929, the Invest in Rural Small Business Act of 2017, which would, among other provisions, reduce the percentage of a HUBZone firm\u2019s employees that must reside in a HUBZone to at least 33% from at least 35% and authorize governors to petition the SBA to designate rural areas in their state that have a population of 50,000 or fewer as a HUBZone if those areas meet specified unemployment criteria. \nH.R. 2013, the Growing and Reviving Rural Economies Through Transitioning HUBZone Redesignation Act of 2017, and S. 690, the HUBZone Investment Protection Act, which would extend the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years.\nH.R. 2592, the Expanding the Impact of the HUBZone Program Act of 2017, which would, among other provisions, extend HUBZone eligibility to not more than 10 years and require the SBA, within one year of the bill\u2019s enactment, to publish performance metrics measuring the HUBZone program\u2019s success in promoting economic development in economically distressed areas. \nH.R. 3294, the HUBZone Unification and Business Stability Act of 2017, which would, among other provisions, provide HUBZone eligibility to areas listed on a publicly accessible online tool. The SBA would be required to update the tool beginning on January 1, 2020 and every five years thereafter, immediately after an area ceases to be a redesignated area, and immediately after an area is designated as a base closure area or a qualified disaster area. The bill would also require the SBA to publish performance metrics measuring the HUBZone program\u2019s success in promoting economic development in economically distressed areas.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41268", "sha1": "dd8387e9277a548bbb54dc8d686897221b47ca02", "filename": "files/20170810_R41268_dd8387e9277a548bbb54dc8d686897221b47ca02.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41268", "sha1": "e3dd81bfaa7ef7d584f608bd5077cc9ec41cbbaa", "filename": "files/20170810_R41268_e3dd81bfaa7ef7d584f608bd5077cc9ec41cbbaa.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 461893, "date": "2017-06-08", "retrieved": "2017-06-16T16:02:52.777535", "title": "Small Business Administration HUBZone Program", "summary": "The Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty, or high unemployment with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Its primary objectives are job creation and increased capital investment in distressed communities. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the program. As of June 8, 2017, the SBA\u2019s Dynamic Small Business Search database included 5,654 firms with active HUBZone certifications.\nIn FY2016, the federal government awarded 86,600 contracts valued at $7.13 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses, with about $1.69 billion of that amount awarded through open competition with other firms, $1.65 billion awarded through a HUBZone set-aside, $33.5 million through a HUBZone sole-source award, and $5.2 million with a HUBZone price-evaluation preference. The remaining contracts (about $3.75 billion) were awarded with another small business preference (e.g., set asides and sole source awards for small business generally and for 8(a), women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses). The program\u2019s anticipated administrative cost for FY2017 is about $8.4 million. Its FY2017 appropriation is $3.0 million, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for salaries and general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of fraud in the program. Some Members have called for the program\u2019s termination. Others have recommended that the SBA continue its efforts to improve its administration of the program, especially its efforts to prevent fraud.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines \nP.L. 111-240, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which removed certain language from the Small Business Act that had prompted federal courts and GAO to find that HUBZone set-asides have \u201cprecedence\u201d over other small business set-asides. \nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which includes a provision that expands the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. 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The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program \u201cwhose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities.\u201d It provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty rates, or high unemployment rates with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the HUBZone program. On March 9, 2017, there were 5,260 certified HUBZone small businesses.\nIn FY2015, the federal government awarded 76,503 contracts valued at $6.77 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses, with about $1.69 billion of that amount awarded through a HUBZone set-aside ($1.61 billion), sole-source ($45.0 million), or price-evaluation preference ($34.6 million) award. The program\u2019s FY2015 administrative cost was about $15.2 million. Its FY2016 appropriation was $3.0 million, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of fraud in the program. Some Members have called for the program\u2019s termination. Others have recommended that the SBA continue its efforts to improve its administration of the program, especially its efforts to prevent fraud.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics, such as low income, high poverty, or high unemployment, as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines \nP.L. 111-240, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which removed certain language from the Small Business Act that had prompted federal courts and GAO to find that HUBZone set-asides have \u201cprecedence\u201d over other small business set-asides. \nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which includes a provision that expands the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extends BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provides HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and adds Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nS. 2838, the Small Business Transforming America\u2019s Regions Act of 2016, which, as reported by the House Committee on Small Business, would have extended the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years and authorize state governors to annually petition the SBA to designate one or more nonmetropolitan counties in their state as a HUBZone if those counties meet specified criteria. \nH.R. 5250, the Growing and Reviving Rural Economies Through Transitioning HUBZone Redesignation Act of 2016, which would have extended the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years.\nIn addition, P.L. 114-187, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), includes a provision exempting Puerto Rico from the 20% population cap on qualified census tracts (QCTs) located in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for 10 years, or until the date on which the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, created by PROMESA, ceases to exist, whichever comes first. 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The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program \u201cwhose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities.\u201d It provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty rates, or high unemployment rates with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the HUBZone program. On February 17, 2017, there were 6,026 certified HUBZone small businesses.\nIn FY2015, the federal government awarded 76,503 contracts valued at $6.77 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses, with about $1.69 billion of that amount awarded through a HUBZone set-aside ($1.61 billion), sole-source ($45.0 million), or price-evaluation preference ($34.6 million) award. The program\u2019s FY2015 administrative cost was about $15.2 million. Its FY2016 appropriation was $3.0 million, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of fraud in the program. Some Members have called for the program\u2019s termination. Others have recommended that the SBA continue its efforts to improve its administration of the program, especially its efforts to prevent fraud.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics, such as low income, high poverty, or high unemployment, as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines \nP.L. 111-240, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which removed certain language from the Small Business Act that had prompted federal courts and GAO to find that HUBZone set-asides have \u201cprecedence\u201d over other small business set-asides. \nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which includes a provision that expands the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extends BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provides HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and adds Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nS. 2838, the Small Business Transforming America\u2019s Regions Act of 2016, which, as reported by the House Committee on Small Business, would have extended the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years and authorize state governors to annually petition the SBA to designate one or more nonmetropolitan counties in their state as a HUBZone if those counties meet specified criteria. \nH.R. 5250, the Growing and Reviving Rural Economies Through Transitioning HUBZone Redesignation Act of 2016, which would have extended the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years.\nIn addition, P.L. 114-187, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), includes a provision exempting Puerto Rico from the 20% population cap on qualified census tracts (QCTs) located in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for 10 years, or until the date on which the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, created by PROMESA, ceases to exist, whichever comes first. 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The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program \u201cwhose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities.\u201d It provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty rates, or high unemployment rates with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the HUBZone program. On February 17, 2017, there were 6,026 certified HUBZone small businesses.\nIn FY2015, the federal government awarded 76,503 contracts valued at $6.77 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses, with about $1.69 billion of that amount awarded through a HUBZone set-aside ($1.61 billion), sole-source ($45.0 million), or price-evaluation preference ($34.6 million) award. The program\u2019s FY2015 administrative cost was about $15.2 million. Its FY2016 appropriation was $3.0 million, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of fraud in the program. Some Members have called for the program\u2019s termination. Others have recommended that the SBA continue its efforts to improve its administration of the program, especially its efforts to prevent fraud.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics, such as low income, high poverty, or high unemployment, as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines \nP.L. 111-240, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which removed certain language from the Small Business Act that had prompted federal courts and GAO to find that HUBZone set-asides have \u201cprecedence\u201d over other small business set-asides. \nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which includes a provision that expands the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extends BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provides HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and adds Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nS. 2838, the Small Business Transforming America\u2019s Regions Act of 2016, which, as reported by the House Committee on Small Business, would have extended the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years and authorize state governors to annually petition the SBA to designate one or more nonmetropolitan counties in their state as a HUBZone if those counties meet specified criteria. \nH.R. 5250, the Growing and Reviving Rural Economies Through Transitioning HUBZone Redesignation Act of 2016, which would have extended the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years.\nIn addition, P.L. 114-187, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), includes a provision exempting Puerto Rico from the 20% population cap on qualified census tracts (QCTs) located in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for 10 years, or until the date on which the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, created by PROMESA, ceases to exist, whichever comes first. 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The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program \u201cwhose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities.\u201d It provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty rates, or high unemployment rates with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the HUBZone program. On November 14, 2016, there were 5,761 certified HUBZone small businesses.\nIn FY2015, the federal government awarded 76,503 contracts valued at $6.77 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses, with about $1.69 billion of that amount awarded through a HUBZone set-aside ($1.61 billion), sole-source ($45.0 million), or price-evaluation preference ($34.6 million) award. The program\u2019s FY2015 administrative cost was about $15.2 million. Its FY2016 appropriation is $3.0 million, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of fraud in the program. Some Members have called for the program\u2019s termination. Others have recommended that the SBA continue its efforts to improve its administration of the program, especially its efforts to prevent fraud.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics, such as low income, high poverty, or high unemployment, as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. It includes an analysis of the SBA\u2019s administration of the program and the SBA\u2019s performance measures.\nThis report also examines \nP.L. 111-240, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which removed certain language from the Small Business Act that had prompted federal courts and GAO to find that HUBZone set-asides have \u201cprecedence\u201d over other small business set-asides. \nP.L. 114-92, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which includes a provision that expands the definition of a Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) military base closure area to make it easier for businesses located in those areas to meet the HUBZone program\u2019s requirement that at least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone area. It also extends BRAC base closure area HUBZone eligibility from five years to not less than eight years, provides HUBZone eligibility to qualified disaster areas, and adds Native Hawaiian Organizations to the list of HUBZone eligible small business concerns. \nS. 2838, the Small Business Transforming America\u2019s Regions Act of 2016, which, as reported by the House Committee on Small Business, would extend the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years and authorize state governors to annually petition the SBA to designate one or more nonmetropolitan counties in their state as a HUBZone if those counties meet specified criteria. \nH.R. 5250, the Growing and Reviving Rural Economies Through Transitioning HUBZone Redesignation Act of 2016, which would extend the eligibility of redesignated HUBZones to seven years from three years.\nIn addition, P.L. 114-187, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), includes a provision exempting Puerto Rico from the 20% population cap on qualified census tracts (QCTs) located in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for 10 years, or until the date on which the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, created by PROMESA, ceases to exist, whichever comes first. 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The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program \u201cwhose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities.\u201d It provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty rates, or high unemployment rates with contracting opportunities in the form of set-asides, sole-source awards, and price-evaluation preferences. Firms must be certified by the SBA to participate in the HUBZone program. On October 17, 2016, there were 5,709 certified HUBZone small businesses.\nIn FY2015, the federal government awarded 76,503 contracts valued at $6.77 billion to HUBZone-certified businesses, with about $1.69 billion of that amount awarded through a HUBZone set-aside ($1.61 billion), sole-source ($45.0 million), or price-evaluation preference ($34.6 million) award. The program\u2019s FY2015 administrative cost was about $15.2 million. Its FY2016 appropriation is $3.0 million, with the additional cost of administering the program provided by the SBA\u2019s appropriation for general administrative expenses. \nCongressional interest in the HUBZone program has increased in recent years, primarily due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of fraud in the program. Some Members have called for the program\u2019s termination. Others have recommended that the SBA continue its efforts to improve its administration of the program, especially its efforts to prevent fraud.\nThis report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics, such as low income, high poverty, or high unemployment, as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program.\nThe report also discusses the HUBZone program\u2019s structure and operation, focusing on the definition of HUBZone areas and HUBZone small businesses and the program\u2019s performance relative to federal contracting goals. 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