{"data":{"id":"us/48-cfr-19.1500","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"48 CFR 19.1500","heading":"19.1500 General.","body":"(a) Section 8(m) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(m)) created the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program.\n(b) The purpose of the WOSB Program is to ensure women-owned small business concerns have an equal opportunity to participate in Federal contracting and to assist agencies in achieving their women-owned small business participation goals (see 13 part CFR 127).\n(c) An economically disadvantaged women-owned small business (EDWOSB) concern and a WOSB concern eligible under the WOSB Program are subcategories of “women-owned small business concern” as defined in section 2.101.","path":["Title 48—Federal Acquisition Regulations System","CHAPTER 1—FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION","SUBCHAPTER D—SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS","PART 19—SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS","Subpart 19.15—Women-Owned Small Business Program"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-48.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:29Z","sha256":"2d79a7bc06cc918b87d47f948f4cbdc48557f9a28d289adf1cc1f5cf9ee76c78","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/48-cfr-19.1408","next":"us/48-cfr-19.1501"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}