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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 19: Small Business Programs › Subpart 19.7

FAR 19.707 The Small Business Administration's role in carrying out the program.

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 describes what the Small Business Administration may and may not do when carrying out the subcontracting plan program. It matters to contractors because the SBA can review solicitations and subcontracting plans and evaluate compliance, but its recommendations to the contracting officer are only advisory. The SBA cannot tell a contractor how much to subcontract, which concerns get subcontracts, or how individual prime contracts or subcontracts are administered.

Applies to: The Small Business Administration and contractors with subcontracting plans

Key terms: subcontracting plan · contracting officer · solicitation · prime contract · subcontractor

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

The text

(a) Under the program, the SBA may—

(1) Assist both Government agencies and contractors in carrying out their responsibilities with regard to subcontracting plans;

(2) Review (within 5 working days) any solicitation that meets the dollar threshold in 19.702(a)(1)(i) or (ii) before the solicitation is issued;

(3) Review (within 5 working days) before execution any negotiated contractual document requiring a subcontracting plan, including the plan itself, and submit recommendations to the contracting officer, which shall be advisory in nature; and

(4) Evaluate compliance with subcontracting plans, either on a contract-by-contract basis, or, in the case of contractors having multiple contracts, on an aggregate basis.

(b) The SBA is not authorized to (1) prescribe the extent to which any contractor or subcontractor shall subcontract, (2) specify concerns to which subcontracts will be awarded, or (3) exercise any authority regarding the administration of individual prime contracts or subcontracts.

Sections it refers to

  • 19.702 Statutory requirements.

← 19.706 Responsibilities of the cognizant administrative contracting officer. · 19.708 Contract clauses. →

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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