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, 1965

Front Cover
Reviews SBA discharge of responsibilities in specific program areas of lending and procurement assistance.
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 42 - 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 43 - 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 17 - 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 36 - 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 41 - 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 § 1-1.706, for exclusive small business participation. Such set-asides, when approved by the contracting officer, shall be known as class set-asides.
Page 41 - 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 39 - 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 42 - 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 43 - Small business concerns which are also substantial labor surplus area concerns. Group 3. Small business concerns which are not labor surplus area concerns. Within each of the above groups, negotiations with such concerns will be in the order of their bids on the non-set-aside portion, beginning with the lowest responsive bid.

Bibliographic information