Size
(b) Size. (1) In order to be eligible for HUBZone certification and recertification, a concern, together with its affiliates, must qualify as a small business concern as defined in part 121 of this chapter under the size standard corresponding to any NAICS code listed in its profile in SAM (or successor system). In determining whether a concern qualifies as small under the size standard corresponding to a specific NAICS code, SBA will accept the concern's size representation in SAM (or successor system), unless there is evidence indicating that the concern is other than small. SBA will request a formal size determination pursuant to 121.1001(b)(8) of this chapter where any information it possesses calls into question the concern's SAM size representation. (2) In order to be eligible for a HUBZone contract, a certified HUBZone small business concern must qualify as small under the size standard corresponding to the NAICS code assigned to the HUBZone contract. (3) If the concern is a small agricultural cooperative, in determining size, the small agricultural cooperative is treated as a business concern and its member shareholders are not considered affiliated with the cooperative by virtue of their membership in the cooperative.