Once you have decided to acquire 8a certification program, you need to gather few document for you application. If you don’t provide such required documents then SBA will return your application or declare it decline. For avoiding such situation SBA provide free counseling to assist you all in preparing the application. They even provide online training to the applicants. So you must take complete guidance from the officials of SBA. You can also get all information from the website www.ez8a.com
Step1: Go through the SBA online course which will provide you the basic points of the program that how your business is getting benefited by the program. It will also provide you with the eligibility criteria and overview the whole application process.
Step2: Collect all the official documents of your business such as licenses, permits, stock certificates and etc. All these documents should be of current year. These documents should be officially signed and stamped by the owner or the directors.
Step3: you need to collect the DUNS number which you need to register with the federal government for contracts and grants. D-U-N-S is an unique nine digit identification number for each physical location of your business.
Step4: After getting the DUNS number you need to get the TIN or EIN number of your business. TIN is a Tax Identification Number which you will get from IRS Internal Revenue Services. Your company’s tax return should be updated.
Step5: After completing all the above steps you need to create a business profile in the federal government‘s system for award management. As SAM (System Award Management) is required for all the firms who are looking to do contracting with the federal government.
Step6: After the completion of creating the SAM account you will get a free general login system user ID. Then you need to login and share all your business related information.
Step7: Once you mailed the documents or submitted after login, this puts your application in the queue for processing so on.
