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FAR 19.705-3 Preparing the solicitation.

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 requires the contracting officer to give the SBA's procurement center representative a reasonable period to review any solicitation that requires a subcontracting plan and to submit advisory findings before the solicitation is issued. For contractors, it means solicitations involving subcontracting plans go through an SBA review step before release.

Applies to: Contracting officers issuing solicitations that require a subcontracting plan

What it requires

  • Provide the SBA procurement center representative a reasonable period of time to review the solicitation
  • Allow the representative to submit advisory findings before the solicitation is issued

Key terms: solicitation · subcontracting plan · procurement center representative · advisory findings

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

The text

The contracting officer shall provide the Small Business Administration's (SBA's) procurement center representative (or, if a procurement center representative is not assigned, see 19.402(a)) a reasonable period of time to review any solicitation requiring submission of a subcontracting plan and to submit advisory findings before the solicitation is issued.

Sections it refers to

  • 19.402 Small Business Administration procurement center representatives.

← 19.705-2 Determining the need for a subcontracting plan. · 19.705-4 Reviewing the subcontracting plan. →

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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