Construction Set-aside Amendments: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 10518, a Bill to Amend the Small Busniess Act to Provide that the Program Under which Government Contracts and Set Aside for Small Business Concerns Shall Not Apply in the Case of Contracts for Maintenance, Repair, Or Construction |
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Page 150 - 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, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts for property and services for the Government (including but not limited to contracts or subcontracts for maintenance, repair, and construction) be placed with small-business enterprises, to insure...
Page 87 - Business Act that the set-aside program would provide one means of enabling small firms to receive a fair proportion of the Government's total purchases, would thereby help to maintain a healthy community of small firms and, hence, would assure the existence of a broadly competitive industry. (2) It is obvious that the effect of the reservation of any procurement for competition exclusively for small business firms, pursuant to the Small Business Act, potentially rules out lower bids of large business...
Page 92 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government shall be placed with small business concerns.
Page 102 - 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 wellbeing but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of small...
Page 86 - ... where there is a reasonable expectation that bids or proposals will be obtained from a sufficient number of responsible small business concerns so that awards will be made at reasonable prices. Total set-asides shall not be made unless such a reasonable expectation exists; however, see 1-706.6 as to partial set-asides.
Page 170 - These determinations may be made for individual awards or contracts or for classes of awards or contracts. Whenever the Administration and the contracting procurement agency fail to agree, the matter shall be submitted for determination to the Secretary or the head of the appropriate department or agency by the Administrator.
Page 167 - Part of tlie proof of responsibility is evidence of financial ability to perform. Just as the procurement office must find these facts, so too must the SBA official find them in order either to issue a certificate of competency or to approve an application for a loan. The two applications by the same firm are rarely simultaneous or coincidental or dependent one on the other. Second, they falsely assert that set-asides lower performance standards. There is no valid basis for big business' assertion...
Page 170 - SBA had made in other industries for items such as adhesives, ready-mix asphalt, boxes and crates, cement, etc. Accordingly, it was agreed with the Department of Defense and civilian purchasing agencies that the contracting officer should consider each requirement for construction within these dollar limitations as if SBA had made a specific recommendation to restrict it to small business.
Page 88 - We recognize, of course, that these statistics give no measure of what might have been bid on this work by large firms which were understandably dissuaded from bidding by the set-aside for small business. Hence, we do not claim that these figures prove anything with respect to the extra costs, if any, attributable to small business set-asides. Even in these...
Page 85 - ... year. We have, of course, brought up to date the statistics relating to small business participation in .construction awards. With your permission, in the interest of time, I would like to submit it for the record. I would be pleased to respond to questions this committee might have on this subject. I have included in my statement comments with respect to the five questions most frequently asked us concerning the small business set-aside program : ( 1 ) What is the small business set-aside procedure?...