FAR 19.506 Documentation requirements.

In plain English

This section requires the contracting officer to write down the reasons when a contract is not totally set aside for small business, or when a multiple-award contract is not partially set aside, reserved, or set up to allow set-aside orders even though those options were available. It also requires documenting why recommendations from the agency's small business office were not followed, if that applies. Contractors benefit because it creates a record explaining why small-business set-aside opportunities were not used.

Applies to: Contracting officers documenting set-aside decisions

What it requires

• Document the rationale when a contract is not totally set aside for small business under 19.502-2
• Document the rationale when a multiple-award contract is not partially set aside, not reserved, and does not allow for setting aside of orders, when those authorities could have been used
• If applicable, include the rationale for not accepting recommendations from the agency Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, or for DoD the Director of the Office of Small Business Programs or the Director's designee, about whether an acquisition should be awarded u

Key terms: totally set aside · multiple-award contract · partially set aside · reserved · setting aside of orders

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