COFC Holds SBA Economic Dependence Presumption is Rebuttable; COFC No. 16-1489, Veterans Technology, LLC v. United States

Protest of the SBA area office’s size determination is granted, where the area office’s finding of affiliation due to economic dependence failed to consider several key factors, including that one joint venture member’s economic reliance on an other-than-small business began when the government directed the large business to issue a subcontract to the joint venture member, and that the purportedly affiliated joint venture partner held only 49 percent ownership and therefore could not control the joint venture.