8a Certification Package

8(a) Certification Package “What to Expect”

We Start with a short 10-minute call to go over eligibility and answer any other questions you might have regarded 8(a) or government contracting.
Size does not matter; our clients are single person companies to fifty plus employees.
Surprise-free upfront pricing.
Second step is a 2-hour No-Obligation call with a senior member of our team for a deeper dive into your firm.
Give us a call and we can talk through your needs and suggest the best course of action.

8(a) Certification / GSA Sales Tool Video

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What your Firm's Federal Sales Could Look Like with an 8(a) Certification

At Advance 8(a) we are dedicated to making businesses successful in the federal marketplace. Will it be yours?

ACCOUNTING

8(a) Average Sales this Industry					GSA Schedule Sales for a firm with an 8(a) in this Industry				Synergy (Generally adding an 8(a) to a GSA Creates More Sales than from the GSA Schedule Alone)				Synergy Ratio
8(a) Industry Grouping	Total 8(a) Federal Sales	Number of 8(a) Firms	Average 8(a) Sales		GSA Schedule Only Sales 8(a) Firms	Number of 8(a) Firms w/ GSA Schedule	Average 8(a) Sales Directly from the GSA Schedule System		Total Federal Sales 8(a) GSA Contract Holders	Number of 8(a) Firms w/ GSA Schedule	Average Total 8(a) Federal Sales for firms with a GSA Schedule		GSA Schedule Sales Advantage

8(a) Pre-Qualification Tool

8(a) Sales Data

8(a) Information Guide

8(a) Package Details

8(a) Certification Package (Presumed Group Applicants) : $5,200.00 Buy Now

8(a) Certification Package (Non-Presumed Group Applicants) : $7,200.00 Buy Now

Additional Fee:

$300 for each additional owner, director, or key employee over two.

$300 for each additional firm in which any owner has an interest over one outside firm.

Additional Services

Our all-inclusive 8(a) Full Support Package is our most popular service. Business owners who select this package typically do so because they want subject matter experts to simplify their involvement generating and reviewing the application. These businesses are usually generating $150K+ in revenue and believe that their time is best aligned to business growth and not in learning the necessary bureaucratic details of this application.

In advance of a purchase decision, our Senior Partner, Mark Ryan, will spend (2) hours with the majority business owner(s) to perform a detailed assessment of the business and its likelihood to achieve certification. He will ask you over a hundred questions to make sure we do not waste your time or energy on a project that we do not believe will succeed. Application strategies are developed, concerns shared, and the prospective client is provided an accurate assessment of their prospects. During this assessment, development actions that improve the chance of certification are created and shared. If moving forward with an application is not recommended by our Senior Partner, he will develop a potential remedy plan and discuss it with you.

The time required to prepare and assemble the 8(a) application varies by client, but most take between a month to a month and a half. The SBA is usually able to award the certification within 3–4 months (on ez8a client packages). So, for planning purposes, estimate award of your certification within 6 months.

From date of hire through to certification, which often involves responding to requests from the SBA's Reviewing Official, the ez8a team typically dedicates from 70–85 hours to the client's application (some have taken over 100 hours). Some areas that require the most attention to detail include:

Interview and assistance with drafts and edits of the economically disadvantaged and socially disadvantaged (if required) narrative(s); which is (are) a critical part of your application.
Providing guidance, pre-filling and editing templates, explaining and resolving critical elements.
Performing thorough reviews of every document and audit of all financial statements to identify and remedy any potential problems. The SBA is very detailed in their assessment and so are we.
Final assembly of application and; double-checking everything to be sure it meets all SBA guidelines. Our applications are formatted in a binder with a table of contents, tabs for every 8(a) application section and all cover letter(s).
Includes Government Marketing Level I, "Foundations to Success". One of our ez8a Partners will be assigned to work with you to share the basic concepts and tools required to sell the federal government.

8(a) Revenue Statistics

Year	8(a) Revenue	Number of Firms	Federal Revenue Per Firm
2019	$50.7 billion	6,133	$8,273,623
2018	$46.5 billion	5,805	$8,010,335
2017	$40.2 billion	6,815	$5,898,752
2016	$39.0 billion	6,289	$6,201,303
2015	$35.6 billion	6,365	$5,593,087
2014	$34.7 billion	6,683	$5,192,278
2013	$30.7 billion	7,436	$4,128,563
2012	$32.4 billion	7,827	$4,139,517
2011	$32.4 billion	8,751	$3,702,434

8(a) Spending by Agency

Agency	2007	2009	2011	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Agency for International Development	3.67%$7.9MM	1.50% $6.8MM	7.67% $102.7MM	9.44% $136.1MM	13.66% $184.3MM	11.33% $213.8M	5.62% $246.2M	7.09% $341.0M	3.19 % $ 159 M	2.39 % $ 130.8 M
Department of Agriculture	12.14%$559.1MM	13.21% $702.8MM	13.27% $708.5MM	12.73% $658.6MM	14.08% $779.0MM	14.95% $956.4M	16.74% $995.3M	15.39% $970.6M	6 % $ 400 M	6.9 % $ 516.9 M
Department of Commerce	16.45% $355.4MM	14.05% $469.4MM	15.36% $470.9MM	17.42% $581.4MM	17.32% $696.8MM	18.12% $757.9M	17.22% $790.5M	14.36% $702.0M	6.29 % $ 279 M	5.43 % $ 310.5 M
Department of Defense	5.75% $15.5B	7.19% $21.7B	6.90% $20.0B	7.79% $17.8B	8.95% $20.7B	9.51% $20.3B	8.76% $22.1B	7.27% $16.2B	3.41 % $ 10.1 B	3.13 % $ 9.8 B
Department of Education	5.15% $74.1MM	4.60% $68.4MM	5.53% $102.8MM	4.39% $114.9MM	4.96% $141.8MM	5.61% $145.0M	6.25% $149.3M	7.98% $195.1M	1.65 % $ 44 M	1.65 % $ 45.4 M
Department of Energy	2.38% $541.9MM	1.73% $536.2MM	1.94% $473.4MM	2.63% $571.0MM	2.28% $529.3MM	2.54% $584.8M	2.87% $759.3M	2.77% $746.0M	0.79 % $ 237 M	0.75 % $ 210.6 M
Department of Health and Human Services	6.85% $929.6MM	7.00% $1.3B	9.66% $1.8B	10.02% $1.9B	8.91% $1.9B	10.62% $2.3B	10.86% $2.6B	10.24% $2.5B	5.41 % $ 1.3 B	5.48 % $ 1.4 B
Department of Homeland Security	13.38% $1.5B	14.18% $2.0B	11.50% $1.7B	13.26% $1.7B	14.59% $1.9B	14.71% $2.0B	15.58% $2.2B	14.42% $2.4B	5.62 % $ 1 B	6.86 % $ 1.3 B
Department of Urban Development	40.01% $352.5MM	31.08% $271.4MM	21.89% $380.0MM	19.13% $315.4MM	16.49% $204.4MM	25.56% $303.5M	23.68% $263.3M	27.85% $420.9M	10.62 % $ 105 M	5.87 % $ 88.6 M
Department of the Interior	21.25% $570.4MM	22.73% $664.4MM	20.77% $589.7MM	25.29% $597.1MM	23.57% $638.9MM	23.56% $667.0M	26.92% $826.0M	25.04% $748.6M	9.88 % $ 311 M	10.73 % $ 347.3 M
Department of Justice	4.60% $311.3MM	5.82% $446.6MM	6.79% $440.9MM	7.60% $494.1MM	9.84% $625.2MM	9.39% $679.7M	11.95% $859.6M	10.52% $760.9M	5.92 % $ 459 M	5.1 % $ 410.4 M
Department of Labor	11.32% $219.5MM	15.65% $306.3	19.15% $372.2MM	23.06% $447.8MM	18.27% $382.6MM	21.48% $423.3M	21.96% $398.0M	24.43% $509.2M	5.72 % $ 110 M	5.55 % $ 113.9 M
Department of State	16.3% $345.4MM	15.1% $453.4MM	16.7% $656.1MM	20.6% $663.9MM	25.45% $853.5MM	23.46% $906.1M	14.14% $1.2B	11.99% $1.3B	7.68 % $ 741 M	11.68 % $ 1 B
Department of Transportation	19.3% $286.6MM	13.4% $257.9MM	19.5% $349.1MM	19.3% $313.2MM	21.15% $373.0MM	22.29% $356.6M	21.79% $416.5M	26.21% $467.8M	7.02 % $ 471 M	7.77 % $ 496.9 M
Department of the Treasury	8.1% $155.4MM	9.0% $194.7MM	13.2% $292.4MM	16.3% $343.1MM	14.37% $391.0MM	15.53% $418.8M	15.11% $465.8M	14.19% $442.7M	4.24 % $ 200 M	4.86 % $ 222.9 M
Department of Veterans Affairs	8.8% $1.0B	8.3% $1.2B	8.4% $1.5B	7.9% $1.4B	8.35% $1.6B	7.58% $1.5B	7.01% $1.6B	7.17% $1.9B	0.06 % $ 16 M	0.07 % $ 19.8 M
Environmental Protection Agency	14.9% $216.2MM	13.6% $273.8MM	14.8% $315.1MM	14.8% $230.2MM	15.97% $225.4MM	15.22% $236.2M	14.79% $235.4M	15.18% $236.1M	8.77 % $ 136 M	7.9 % $ 124.6 M
General Services Administration	13.4% $654.1MM	10.7% $792.6	19.0% $669.3MM	17.5% $612.8MM	16.04% $627.9MM	20.48% $793.9M	21.22% $898.5M	22.48% $984.8M	9 % $ 422 M	7.92 % $ 444.3 M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	6.9% $879.1MM	8.1% $1.2B	7.1% $982.6MM	8.8% $1.1B	8.98% $1.2B	8.71% $1.3B	8.24% $1.3B	7.61% $1.3B	4.05 % $ 690 M	3.95 % $ 698.6 M
National Science Foundation	9.3% $21.3MM	7.7% $24.7MM	8.5% $24.3MM	10.8% $29.9MM	9.19% $25.1MM	12.31% $29.7M	11.13% $48.6M	12.97% $62.1M	5.41 % $ 26 M	4.93 % $ 26.2 M
Nuclear Regulatory Commission	13.8% $21.9MM	14.4% $34.0MM	14.1% $37.0MM	12.8% $32.7MM	18.05% $44.3MM	16.99% $40.6M	20.32% $46.2M	20.09% $44.3M	10.49 % $ 25 M	14.66 % $ 27.3 M
Office of Personnel Management	7.4% $104.3MM	4.2% $67.1MM	4.4% $67.2MM	9.6% $59.5MM	10.14% $88.5MM	10.06% $106.7M	11.54% $108.4M	15.91% $124.4M	4.16 % $ 50 M	5.64 % $ 55.4 M
Small Business Administration	47.8% $44.7MM	46.4% $49.5MM	47.4% $62.4MM	47.3% $50.5MM	47.8% $6.3MM	39.39% $57.9M	39.17% $59.3M	52.45% $82.3M	22.04 % $ 39 M	32.79 % $ 57.7 M
Social Security Administration	11.1% $87.3MM	12.7% $157.6MM	12.1% $157.5MM	9.1% $123.3MM	8.60% $143.5MM	9.5% $158.6M	8.56% $128.4M	10.88% $176.5M	2.28 % $ 39 M	2.01 % $ 36.8 M

ADDITIONAL 8(A) PROGRAM SUPPORT SERVICES

Many of our clients purchase assistance with additional socioeconomic certifications, such as WOSB, HUBZone, SDVOSB, MBE, DBE, WBE, and more such as GSA Schedule, at the time of purchasing our 8(a) Full Support Package. We are able to deeply discount the fees for the additional applications due to paperwork redundancies between programs. Ez8a also performs 1010C Business Plans, Annual Recertification and assistance with Business Development. To learn more about these packages, please use the hyperlinks to our site content.