Service Overview:
This service is for 8(a) certified companies to prevent them from being prematurely terminated from the 8(a) program, prior to the expiration of their 9-year program term.

Remember the terms of the Participation Agreement (pdf file) you agreed to, and signed, shortly after receiving the “good news” about being 8(a) certified? The truth is that over 1000, 8(a) certified firms have been faced with an early exit from the 8(a) program, over the last few years, simply because they got the “bad news” that they “had failed to live up to the terms of their Participation Agreement”.

The complex, numerous and somewhat unclear terms of their Participation Agreements were, in almost all cases, innocently forgotten by these 8(a) firms, much like most of us forget our well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions.

You say, “It wouldn’t happen to you. Well, let’s just see!

• Forget to send your quarterly or annual financial statements, and personal income taxes, within the time guidelines, or

• Hire a new Vice President or key employee and let it slip your mind, or

• Get behind in paying your company or personal taxes, or

• Focus all of your efforts on booking 8(a) contracts, at the expense of commercial or non-8(a) marketing, or

• Compensate yourself or your relatives working in the company above what the SBA considers excessive, or

• Hire a marketing consultant, and worse yet, reward them for success, and forget to tell the SBA, or

• Start up, or become a major investor in a new company, without seeking SBA blessing, or

• Literally thousands of other, seemingly innocent, and otherwise legal business decisions, and you will certainly be “IN MATERIAL BREACH OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF YOUR PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT, AND YOU WILL BE TERMINATED FROM THE 8(a) PROGRAM.

Still don’t believe that the SBA would terminate you for what you might consider just a “technical violation”, or for being more concerned with running your business, versus “more government paperwork”? CLICK HERE (MS Word Document), and you can read for yourself, what happened to three companies, now former 8(a) firms, for what they probably thought was merely a “technical violation”, or “more government paperwork”. The SBA is “deadly serious” about enforcing the terms of your Participation Agreement, and you should be equally concerned!

We at EZCertify know first hand, how difficult, time consuming, exasperating, and costly it was for you and your company to become 8(a) certified. We struggled side-by-side with many of you, through the certification process, and then, through the preparation of your 8(a) business plans. We now would like to offer you the choice of never having to “face early 8(a) program termination”, simply because you forgot or were too busy to comply with the complex, numerous, and sometimes unclear terms within your Participation Agreement.

Service Features:
The following are included in our EZCertify's Participation Compliance Service:

• EZCertify will prepare, on your behalf, all quarterly, annual and event-based reports (with your inputs, of course) required by the SBA to testify to your continued compliance with the 8(a) eligibility requirements, within the proscribed time frames.

• EZCertify shall conduct quarterly telephone interviews with the 8(a) principals, to identify any circumstances that would comprise a “failure to maintain eligibility” for continued participation in the 8(a) program, ensure that the matter is timely reported to the SBA, if appropriate, and provide recommendations to you, as to how to deal with the situation, within the law, and in full-compliance with SBA’s regulations.

• EZCertify shall promptly respond to your inquiries throughout the year, about how to decide, or act on a business issue that you believe may jeopardize your continued eligibility to participate in the 8(a) program.

• EZCertify shall assist you with a response to any challenge from the SBA dealing with your continued eligibility to participate in the 8(a) program, based on a violation of the terms and conditions within your Participation Agreement.

• Transmit the prepared 8(a) Economic Disadvantage Narrative package via FedEx overnight delivery service or by email to the client and contact the client to address any questions or open issues concerning the submittal of the 8(a) Economic Disadvantage Narrative to the SBA.

• That’s all there is to ensuring that you and your business will continue to be eligible to participate in the 8(a) program for all nine years of your program term. You will also be free to turn your full attention to “doing business” versus “doing paperwork”. Lastly, you will have a reliable source to turn to, to answer your questions, and advise you “how it can be done”, versus "why you can’t do it”.
  
  If your ready to be assured that your company will not be “terminated” from the 8(a) program, free yourself to focus on your business, and to avail yourself of a trusted source, working on your behalf, that will not let you commit, even an innocent act that might jeopardize your continued 8(a) business success, you only have to CLICK HERE to enroll in the EZCertify's Participation Compliance Service, or call us, toll free at 1-866-681-4970 to speak to one of our 8(a) experts.
  

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