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Is your firm ready to apply for set-aside certification?

Answer fifteen questions about ownership, control, finances, industry codes, registrations and capture. See your score and the documents and steps to prepare first. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

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Ownership and control

Can you show who owns the firm, with current ownership documents?

Do your documents show who makes the firm's day-to-day decisions?

Do you know what proof of status each programme accepts from the qualifying owners?

Is each qualifying owner's experience in your line of work written down?

Finances and size

Are your recent business tax returns filed and to hand?

Do you have current financial statements?

Do you have your annual revenue for each recent year?

Location and industry codes

Have you identified the industry codes for what you actually sell?

Do you know whether your business address is in a designated economic zone?

Are your state and local business registrations current?

Registration and capture

Do you know which supplier registrations the agencies you want to sell to use, and have you completed them?

Do you have a capability statement written to your industry codes?

Is there a written past performance narrative with project examples?

Do you know which agencies buy what you sell, and who their small business liaison officers are?

Is someone named to answer agency queries while an application is under review?

Answer the questions to see your score. It updates as you go.

Method: yes scores a question in full, partly scores half and no scores nothing. Each question is weighted from one to three by how much of an application depends on it, and the score is the weighted share, as a percentage. Unanswered questions are left out. It measures preparation, not eligibility.

Is your firm ready to apply for set-aside certification?

Answer fifteen questions about ownership, control, finances, industry codes, registrations and capture. See your score and the documents and steps to prepare first. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

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