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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 13: Simplified Acquisition Procedures › Subpart 13.1

FAR 13.102 Source list.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This section tells contracting officers to use the System for Award Management (SAM) as their main source of vendor information. If an office keeps its own vendor lists, it should note each vendor's small-business status categories. That status information can be used to help ensure small businesses get the maximum practicable opportunity to respond to simplified acquisition solicitations.

Applies to: Contracting officers using simplified acquisition procedures and offices maintaining vendor source lists

What it requires

  • Use SAM via https://www.sam.gov as the primary source of vendor information
  • If maintaining additional vendor source files or listings, identify the status of each source in the listed categories when the status is made known to the contracting office

Key terms: System for Award Management (SAM) · small business · small disadvantaged business · HUBZone small business · Service-disabled veteran-owned small business

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) Contracting officers should use the System for Award Management (see subpart 4.11) via https://www.sam.gov as their primary sources of vendor information. Offices maintaining additional vendor source files or listings should identify the status of each source (when the status is made known to the contracting office) in the following categories:

(1) Small business.

(2) Small disadvantaged business.

(3) Women-owned small business concern, including economically disadvantaged women-owned small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns eligible under the Women-owned Small Business (WOSB) Program.

(4) HUBZone small business.

(5) Service-disabled veteran-owned small business.

(6) Veteran-owned small business.

(b) The status information may be used as the basis to ensure that small business concerns are provided the maximum practicable opportunities to respond to solicitations issued using simplified acquisition procedures.

← 13.101 General. · 13.103 Use of standing price quotations. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 13

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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