Small Business Administration, 1965: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Small Business, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, on Lending and Procurement Assistance Programs, May 19, 1965Reviews SBA discharge of responsibilities in specific program areas of lending and procurement assistance. |
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Page 54 - NOTICE OF TOTAL SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE (a) Restriction. Bids or proposals under this procurement are solicited from small business concerns only and this procurement is to be awarded only to one or more small business concerns. 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...
Page 23 - 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 46 - In the Interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation's full productive capacity, (2) to be In the Interest of war or national defense programs, (3) to be In the Interest of assuring that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the Government are placed with small business concerns...
Page 52 - SBA representatives shall be afforded an opportunity to make recommendations that current and future procurements, or portions thereof, of selected items or services, or groups of like items or services, shall be set aside as provided in. § 11.706, for exclusive small business participation. Such set-asides, when approved by the contracting officer, shall be known as class set-asides.
Page 52 - Subject to any applicable preference for labor surplus area set-asides as provided in § 1.803(a) (2) and the following criteria, any individual procurement or class of procurements or an appropriate part thereof, shall be set aside...
Page 54 - Section 121.3-8). In addition to meetIng these criteria, a manufacturer or a regular dealer submitting bids or proposals in his own name must agree to furnish In the performance of the contract end Items manufactured or produced In the United States, its possessions, or Puerto Rico, by small business concerns : Provided, That this additional requirement does not apply In connection with construction or service contracts.
Page 54 - Part 2 of this chapter except that bids and awards shall be restricted to small business concerns. Bids received from firms which do not qualify as small business concerns shall be considered as nonresponsive and shall be rejected.
Page 49 - The advisor will be the central point of contact for inquiries concerning the small business program from Industry, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Congress, and others.
Page 54 - •small business concern" is a concern, Including its affiliates, which is independently owned and operated, is not dominant in the Held 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 52 - This determination may be made jointly with the contracting officer or may be in the form of a recommendation to him. Disagreements between the small business specialist and the contracting officer on proposed...