Handyman Insurance, Background and Purpose
As many of you know, 13 C.F.R. § 125.6 establishes minimum self-performance requirements for small business prime contractors performing various types of set-aside contracts. The intent of this regulation was to avoid “pass-through” situations (where small businesses awarded set-aside contracts subcontracted virtually their entire contracts to large businesses), which would divert government dollars from the intended small business beneficiaries, and thereby negate the purpose of the agency’s small business programs. To avoid this problem, SBA enacted 13 C.F.R. § 125.6, requiring small business prime contractors to self-perform a certain percentage of the work on its set-aside contracts.