---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 19.305"
title: "48"
number: "19.305"
heading: "Reviews of SDB status."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/19.305"
---

# §19.305. Reviews of SDB status.


This section applies to reviews of a small business concern's SDB status as a prime contractor or subcontractor.

- (a) SBA may initiate the review of SDB status on any firm that has represented itself to be an SDB on a prime contract or subcontract to a Federal prime contract whenever it receives credible information calling into question the SDB status of the firm.
- (b) Requests for an SBA review of SDB status may be forwarded to the Small Business Administration, Associate Administrator for Business Development (AA/BD), 409 Third Street SW., Washington, DC 20416.
- (c) **An SBA review of a subcontractor's SDB status differs from a formal protest.** Protests of a concern's size as a prime contractor are processed under 19.302. Protests of a concern's size as a subcontractor are processed under 19.703(b).

## Notes

### Amendments

[79 FR 61750, Oct. 14, 2014, as amended at 81 FR 45843, July 14, 2016; 88 FR 53752, Aug. 8, 2023; 89 FR 30254, Apr. 22, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42240, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[79 FR 61750, Oct. 14, 2014, as amended at 81 FR 45843, July 14, 2016; 88 FR 53752, Aug. 8, 2023; 89 FR 30254, Apr. 22, 2024]