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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 19: Small Business Programs › Subpart 19.15

FAR 19.1504 Exclusions.

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 lists situations where the rules in this subpart do not apply. It matters because it tells contractors when certain requirements are outside these procedures, such as work already being performed by an 8(a) contractor or orders under certain contract types.

Applies to: The applicability of this subpart to certain requirements and orders

Key terms: 8(a) contractor · 8(a) program · SBA · mandatory Government sources · indefinite-delivery contracts

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

The text

This subpart does not apply to—

(a) Requirements that an 8(a) contractor is currently performing under the 8(a) program or that SBA has accepted for performance under the authority of the 8(a) program, unless SBA has consented to release the requirements from the 8(a) program;

(b) Requirements that can be satisfied through award to mandatory Government sources (see section 8.002);

(c) Orders under indefinite-delivery contracts (see subpart 16.5). (But see 16.505(b)(2)(i)(F) for discretionary set-asides of orders); or

(d) Orders against Federal Supply Schedules (see subpart 8.4). (But see 8.405-5 for discretionary set-asides of orders.)

Sections it refers to

  • 8.002 Priorities for use of mandatory Government sources.
  • 16.505 Ordering.
  • 8.405-5 Small business.

Sections that refer to it

  • 19.1506 Women-Owned Small Business Program sole-source awards.

← 19.1503 Status. · 19.1505 Set-aside procedures. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 19

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

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