SBA increases size standards for NAICS Sector 51, Information

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is increasing the receipts based small business size standards for 15 industries and retaining the current receipts based size standards for five industries in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Sector 51, Information. As part of its ongoing comprehensive review of all size standards, SBA evaluated all receipts based size standards for industries in NAICS Sector 51 to determine whether they should be retained or revised. SBA did not review the employee based standards for industries in NAICS Sector 51 in this rule, but will do so later with other employee based size standards. Up to 500 additional firms will be small under the new size standards and eligible for SBA's loan and Federal procurement programs. You may read/download SBA's final rule at Regulations.gov (RIN 3245-AG26). You may also review the originally proposed rule together with all of the comments that the public had submitted by going to Regulations.gov. The proposed rule and the comments are included in the same docket. The revised size standards will be effective January 7, 2013.