Military Procurement Program, 1954: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, on Participation of Small Business in Military Procurement...Reviews impact of DOD procurement program practices and reductions on small business. |
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Accounting Office action advertised agency Air Force Air Materiel Command Army arsenal ASKINS awarded to small BANNERMAN basis bidder business specialist Caterpillar chart Chicago Procurement Office Chief Chief of Engineers Colonel QUINLIN Colonel SCIPLE committee Comptroller contracting officer Corps of Engineers cost curement dated delivery Department of Defense depot dollars equipment Fiscal year 1953 FORSYTHE Francisco Ordnance District furnished going Government HIGGINS Homer Ferguson July June LAZURE manufacture ment months Navy O'NEIL Ordnance Corps percent percentage prime contractors Procuring Activity production progress payments purchasing office Quartermaster question requested Rock Island Arsenal San Francisco Ordnance scrapers Senator DUFF Senator FERGUSON Senator GILLETTE Senator LONG Senator THYE Small Business Administration small-business concerns small-business firms small-business potential small-business program small-business specialist spare specifications Springfield Armory subcontracting suitable for small supply thing tion tractor VAGIM WEDDELL Wooldridge
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Page 172 - In any case in which a small-business concern or group of such concerns has been certified by or under the authority of the Administration to be a competent Government contractor with respect to capacity and credit...
Page 307 - 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 356 - Except as otherwise provided in this contract, any dispute concerning a question of fact arising under this contract which is not disposed of by agreement shall be decided by the Contracting Officer, who shall reduce his decision to writing and mail or otherwise furnish a copy thereof to the Contractor.
Page 475 - ... liquidation pursuant to the contract) should be effected only after notice to and discussion with the contractor, and after full exploration of the contractor's financial condition, existing or available credit arrangements, projected cash requirements, effect of progress payment reduction on the contractor's operations and generally, on the equities of the particular situation. Where contract performance is satisfactory, and there is neither overpayment...
Page 525 - ... products that have, prior to time set for opening of bids, been tested and qualify for inclusion in the qualified products list identified below, whether or not such products have actually been included in the list by that date. Manufacturers are urged to communicate with the office designated below and arrange to have the products that they propose to offer tested for qualification.
Page 172 - 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.
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Page 522 - The interest of the Government requires assurance, prior to award, that the product is satisfactory for its intended use.
Page 385 - 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 497 - Any such reduction of progress payments on active contracts (other than normal liquidation pursuant to the contract) should be effected only after notice to and discussion with the contractor, and after full exploration of the contractor's financial condition, existing or available credit arrangements, projected cash requirements, effect of progress payment reduction on the contractor's operations, and generally on the equities of the particular situation.