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, 1965

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Reviews 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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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 444 - Concerns (January 195S) ( a ) It is the policy of the Government as declared by the Congress that a fair proportion of the purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small business concerns. (b) The Contractor agrees to accomplish the maximum amount of subcontracting to small business concerns that the Contractor finds to be consistent with the efficient performance of this contract. (b) The "Small Business Subcontracting Program...
Page 453 - 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, 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 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 186 - Government should aid. counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the 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 450 - If, prior to award of a contract involving an individual or class setaside, the contracting officer considers that procurement of the set-aside from a small business concern would be detrimental to the public interest (eg, because of unreasonable price), he may withdraw a unilateral set-aside determination or initiate the withdrawal of a joint set-aside determination by giving written notice to the SBA representative stating the reasons for the withdrawal.
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 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...

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