NAICS Size Standard Impact Tool

SBA’s proposed rule would replace roughly a thousand six-digit size standards with 338 set at the four- and five-digit level, remove the ceiling that has capped receipts-based standards, and add a productivity adjustment for the first time. By SBA’s own estimate, about 114,541 firms would newly be classified as small, of which roughly 37,002 held federal contracts in FY 2025.

Those are national numbers. They tell you nothing about your market. The question a capture lead actually needs answered is narrower: in the codes I compete in, which specific firms cross back over the line, how much work do they already hold, and have they ever had to win a set-aside?

This tool answers that from the public award record. Enter your NAICS codes and it returns every parent company whose measured federal receipts fall between the current and proposed thresholds — a five-year average across a company’s whole federal book, matching the averaging period the regulation uses — and a breakdown of how each firm has been winning work: full and open competition against each category of set-aside.

In the first run we published, covering NAICS 541611 across FY2021 through FY2025, the answer was 85 firms holding $23.44 billion in obligations — and the median firm among them had won 100 percent of that work through unrestricted competition. Sixty of the 85 were at or above 95 percent. Whatever your position on the rule, that is a different fact pattern than “more small businesses will be eligible,” and it is the kind of specific, sourced observation an agency has to respond to.

The tool then drafts the comment. You choose the position — oppose the increase, support it, support it with modifications, or take no position and submit the data alone — and it assembles a comment built on your figures, in a plain Word document with no branding, ready to paste into your own letterhead.

It runs in your browser, it is free, and it works on any NAICS code and any pair of thresholds — not only the rule in front of us now.

The award data behind this tool is prepared by MakeGov, Inc. using Tango, their unified API for U.S. federal contracting data. Tango draws on SAM.gov, USAspending, FPDS, DSBS, GSA eLibrary, Grants.gov, GAO bid protests and agency forecasts, and resolves entities across UEI and DUNS identifiers so that one company reads as one company rather than several records that happen to share a name.

That entity resolution is the hard part of this analysis. A large firm operating under a dozen identifiers looks mid-sized under any one of them, and a tool that misses the connection returns a plausible list of the wrong companies. Tango handles it upstream, which is why users type a NAICS code instead of downloading and reconciling a spending extract.

Tango unifies SAM.gov, USAspending, FPDS, DSBS, GSA eLibrary, Grants.gov, GAO bid protests and agency forecasts behind a single API key. Built for developers, priced for builders.