LSUTish

As a fellow member of the "sometimes we are small and sometimes are not" community, SAM is very confusing! If you are small for some of the revenue-based NAICS codes, that box showing you are a small business will always be checked. It doesn't get unchecked by the system until you are no longer small in all of your NAICS Codes. However, the government is supposed to verify your size using the table that shows your business size against your registered NAICS codes and compare it to the solicitation's NAICS Code. If the box says "N," they ignore the rest of that section even if "small business" is checked as yes in the narrative non-table section. So, it's ok that it's still checked! It's part of the problem of being a growing small business! You aren't doing anything wrong by having that box checked, even if you submit a proposal under a NAICS Code where you are other than a small business. As a fellow small business, there are a couple of places where you need to update your size and any applicable socioeconomic status. One place is under Core Data in the General Information section. This is where you initially tell it if you have any socioeconomic categories (WOSB, disadvantaged, SDVOSB, etc.). Another place is under the Size Metrics, where you enter your 5-year average revenue and the 12-month average number of employees*. Once these two areas are updated, the "Y/N" will be changed in the NAICS Code table. All you can do in the section with the NAICS Code table is verify that it has been updated correctly. I hope this helps! It's taken me years to figure this out! When we switched from being Woman-Owned to only a small business with no additional socioeconomic categories, I had to go line by line through SAM to figure out where I needed to remove the WOSB check box! I finally realized I had to do it earlier in the process than I thought. * NOTE: The 12-month average number of employees may now be 24 months. I know there was talk about changing it, but since we don't typically deal with these types of NAICS Codes, I haven't paid much attention to it.