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SBA 8a Business List

Source Small Business Administration
File Size 152 MB
Dates Covered Current as of April 2006
Cost

Snapshot

  • Top 25 market or circulation over 100,000: $100
  • 26-50 market or circulation 50,000-100,000: $60
  • 50-200 market or circulation below 50,000: $30
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The SBA 8(a) Business Development Program data is a list of companies that qualified for this business assistance program, which is geared toward minority and other disadvantaged businesses. It is current as of April, 2006, with several new fields of data available.

Federal acquisition policies encourage agencies to award a certain percentage of their contracts to businesses that qualify for the 8(a) program and another SBA program, the Small Disadvantaged Business Certification Program. Companies that qualify as 8(a) businesses, automatically qualify for the other program.

As a result, journalists could use this data set along with federal contracts data (also available from NICAR) to study whether small disadvantaged businesses in their region are truly getting their share of federal contracts.

Record layouts and samples of this database

Main documentation (README.txt) 6.8 KB
Data sample (sba_8a.xls) 159.0 KB
Record layout (layout.xls) 28.5 KB

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