Small Business Subcontracting and Set-aside Programs: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 2 on Government Procurement of the Select Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 13, a Resolution Creating a Select Committee to Conduct Studies and Investigations of the Problems of Small Business, Washington, D.C., August 24, 25, and 26, 1965Reviews small business subcontracting and set-aside programs to ascertain if small business receives fair share of Federal procurement dollars in keeping with Federal policy. Examines results of recent DOD changes in set-aside procedures and regulations which may have diminished SBA participation. |
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actions Air Force ASKINS Assistant Secretary August August 12 August 24 Average annual salary awards to small BANNERMAN bidders Budget Bureau Business Administration representatives Business and Government business and labor business set-aside program business subcontracting program Chairman civilian contracting officer curement D.C. DEAR Defense Supply Agency Department of Defense dollar effective fiscal years 1964 FOLEY goals going Government Procurement joint set-aside labor surplus area make-or-buy MALLOY ment MULTER NASA Navy ness percent percentage performance personnel prime contract awards prime contractors procedures procurement agencies procurement center representatives procurement offices Procurement Regulation procuring activity recommendations record request responsibility SBA representative SBA's SEIDMAN Small Business Act Small Business Administration small business adviser small business concerns small business firms small business participation small business program small business set-aside small business specialists small business subcontracting statement subcommittee tion U.S. Army unilateral set-asides Washington
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Page 3 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 373 - Administration, that it is in the interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation's full productive capacity, in the interest of war or national defense programs, or in the interest of assuring that a fair proportion of Government procurement is placed with small business concerns.
Page 454 - small business concern" is a concern, including its affiliates, which is independently owned and operated, is not dominant in the field of operation in which it is bidding on Government contracts, and can further qualify under the criteria set forth in regulations of the Small Business Administration (Code of Federal Regulations, Title 13, Section 121.3-8).
Page 368 - This action is based on a determination by the Contracting Officer, alone or in conjunction with a representative of the Small Business Administration that it is in the interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation's full productive capacity...
Page 213 - The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation.
Page 223 - Act; (10) to obtain from suppliers of materials information pertaining to the method of filling orders and the bases for allocating their supply, whenever it appears that any small business is unable to obtain materials from its normal sources; (11) To make studies and recommendations to the appropriate Federal agencies to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts...
Page 365 - When the award price for the non-set-aside portion has been determined and where an award will be made to a small business concern and the same small business concern is entitled to receive the set-aside portion of a solicitation, the set-aside portion may be added to the basic contract by supplemental agreement. The supplemental agreement shall include the Examination of Records clause, applicable to the set-aside portion only.
Page 445 - Labor Surplus Area Subcontracting Program"; (2) Provide adequate and timely consideration of the potentialities of labor surplus area concerns In all "make-or-buy" decisions; (3) Assure that labor surplus area concerns will have an equitable opportunity to compete for subcontracts, particularly by arranging solicitations, time for the preparation of bids, quantities, specifications, and delivery schedules so as to facilitate the participation of...
Page 445 - Assure that small business concerns will have an equitable opportunity to compete for subcontracts, particularly by arranging solicitations, time for the preparation of bids, quantities, specifications, and delivery schedules so as to facilitate the participation of small business concerns.
Page 171 - These determinations may be made for individual awards or contracts or for classes of awards or contracts. Whenever the Administration and the contracting procurement agency fail to agree, the matter shall be submitted for determination to the Secretary or the Head of the appropriate department or agency by the Administrator.