Comment on FR Doc # 2026-12561
U.S. Women's Chamber of CommerceSupportTrade association
Summary: The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce (USWCC) argues that the proposed rules would remove essential machinery for the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program, which remains necessary to address documented underutilization of women-owned firms. They request that the agency retain these provisions and conduct a supplemental regulatory flexibility analysis specifically examining the impact on women-owned small businesses.
The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce (USWCC) submits the attached comment pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 610 (FAR Case 2026-005). It is submitted separately from, and supplements, USWCC's principal comments in this docket (comment tracking no. mrj-lhue-99at). The comment is deliberately narrow: it addresses the continued need, under 5 U.S.C. 610(b)(1), for the small-business machinery serving the WOSB Federal Contract Program, on the evidence already docketed as Exhibit A to USWCC's principal comments, and the regulatory flexibility analyses' omission of any examination of women-owned small businesses — an examination USWCC's docketed study demonstrates was readily performable from public data. Margot Dorfman, CEO, U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce.