Comment on FR Doc # 2026-12560

My name is LaTonia Pouncey, owner of The Pouncey Group, LLC. My firm provides professional consulting and transportation logistics services across the east coast.. I support streamlining the FAR, but not at the cost of small businesses and oppose these proposed rules. These changes would directly harm my business. The protections being removed are the reason a firm my size can compete at all. Finding opportunities in time We typically learn about federal opportunities through Sam.gov weekly, and it usually takes us about three weeks to prepare a bid or quote. If the guaranteed 15-day head start disappeared on smaller purchases, we would miss the majority of opportunities under $45K because we do not have full time staff focused solely on bidding. Competing for task orders & big vehicles Roughly 50% of our federal revenue comes through task orders, GSA Schedules, or other contract vehicles. Getting onto a vehicle took us two years and real costs, and if agencies no longer had to consider small businesses when placing orders, we would lose access to most of the work we compete for. Losing the people who open doors A small-business specialist, OSDBU office, or agency market research led us to subcontracting opportunities we would not have been able to obtain on our own.. Without required market research, buyers would likely default to incumbents on large vehicle contracts because no one would be required to look for firms like mine. Sole-source opportunities going quiet Public sole-source notices have let us step forward before an award was made.. If sole-source intentions in our industry stopped being posted, we would not know when to make our case and have a fair chance to market our capabilities. Your certification losing its pull Getting WOSB/EDWOSB certified took us fours months based on actual experience and credentials, and it has opened access to set asides we would not have been to obtain without it. If the program's name disappears from the publicizing rules, we expect fewer buyers and agencies to steer opportunities our way. Losing sight of who wins We use award announcements to find primes to subcontract with, and roughly 25% of our work comes from subcontracting or teaming. If the government stopped announcing its largest awards, we would lose our key method for finding subcontracting work. I support and incorporate by reference the comments filed in this docket by the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce — its principal comment (Comment ID FAR-2026-0002-0017) and its comment under 5 U.S.C. 610 (Comment ID FAR-2026-0002-0020).