Military Procurement, 1955: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on Participation of Small Business in Military Procurement--Considers DOD military procurement practices impact on small business. |
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action agencies Air Force Air Materiel Air Materiel Command Armed Services Procurement Army ASKINS Assistant Secretary awarded to small basis bidders business concerns business program Business Specialists chart Chief Commander CURTIN committee competition CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contracting officer curement delivery schedules Department of Defense Depot directive dollars fiscal FOGLER formal advertising FORSYTHE going Government Headquarters industry joint determination Logistics ment military departments million mobilization base Naval Material negotiated procurements operations Ordnance participation percent percentage prime contractors procedures procurement activities Procurement and Production progress payments proposed procurements purchasing activities purchasing office representative request research and development responsibility Secretary of Defense Senator DUFF Senator GOLDWATER Senator MORSE Senator SMATHERS Small Business Act Small Business Administration small concerns small-business concerns small-business firms small-business potential small-business program specifications subcontracting suppliers supply tion U. S. Army WEDDELL WESTPHALINGER
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Page 55 - UTILIZATION OF SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS (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...
Page 278 - 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 276 - Government property, as to which it is determined by the Administration and the contracting procurement or disposal agency (1) to be in the interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation's full productive capacity...
Page 277 - Small Business Administration' (herein referred to as the Administration), which Administration shall be under the general direction and supervision of the President and shall not be affiliated with or be within any other agency or department of the Federal Government.
Page 54 - CONCERNS (JAN. 1958) (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 276 - Administration's determination as to which enterprises are to be designated "small-business concerns", as authorized and directed under this paragraph; (7) To certify to Government procurement officers, and officers engaged in the sale and disposal of Federal property, with respect to the competency, as to capacity and credit, of any small-business concern or group of such concerns to perform a specific Government contract.
Page 127 - The Secretary of Defense shall assure that there is made available to suppliers in the United States, and particularly to small independent enterprises, information with respect to purchases made by the Department of Defense pursuant to part II, such information to be furnished as far in advance as possible.
Page 16 - ... determined to be necessary in the public interest during the period of a national emergency declared by the President or by the Congress...
Page 340 - It is the policy of the Commission to place with small business concerns a fair proportion of the total of supplies and services procured by contract for the Commission. For this purpose a small business concern is any concern which, including its affiliates, employs in the aggregate fewer than 500 persons.
Page 276 - ... has been certified by or under the authority of the Administration to be a competent Government contractor with respect to capacity and credit...