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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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48 sections with “set aside acquisitions”: the first 40

  • FAR 19.502-6 Setting aside a class of acquisitions for small business.
    …f acquisitions of selected products or services, or a portion of the acquisitions, may be set aside for exclusive participation by small business concerns if individual acquisitions in the class will meet the criteria in 19.502-1, 19.502-2,…
  • FAR 19.1305 HUBZone set-aside procedures.
    (a) The contracting officer— (1) Shall comply with 19.203 before deciding to set aside an acquisition under the HUBZone Program; (2) May set aside acquisitions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold for competition restricted to HUBZone s…
  • FAR 19.1505 Set-aside procedures.
    (a) The contracting officer— (1) Shall comply with 19.203 before deciding to set aside an acquisition under the WOSB Program; and (2)(i) May set aside acquisitions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold for competition restricted to EDWOS…
  • DFARS 219.502-1 Requirements for setting aside acquisitions.
    Do not set aside acquisitions— (1) For supplies that were developed and financed, in whole or in part, by Canadian sources under the U.S.-Canadian Defense Development Sharing Program; or (2) Excluded from procurement center representative…
  • FAR 19.502-9 Withdrawing or modifying small business set-asides.
    (a) If, before award of a contract involving a total or partial small business set-aside, the contracting officer considers that award would be detrimental to the public interest (e.g., payment of more than a fair market price), the contrac…
  • FAR 19.1405 Set-aside procedures.
    (a) The contracting officer— (1) Shall comply with 19.203 before deciding to set aside an acquisition under the SDVOSB Program; (2) May set-aside acquisitions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold for competition restricted to SDVOSB con…
  • FAR 19.502-1 Requirements for setting aside acquisitions.
    (a) The contracting officer shall set aside an individual acquisition or class of acquisitions for competition among small businesses when— (1) It is determined to be in the interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation's full productiv…
  • FAR 19.502 Setting aside acquisitions.
  • DFARS 219.502 Setting aside acquisitions.
  • DFARS 219.502-2 Total small business set-asides.
    Unless the contracting officer determines that the criteria for set-aside cannot be met, set aside for small business concerns acquisitions for— (1) Construction, including maintenance and repairs, under $3.5 million; (2) Dredging under $…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …es (FEB 2021) (E.O.s, proclamations, and statutes administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury). (x) 52.232-40, Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors (MAR 2023) (31 U.S.C.…
  • FAR 19.203 Relationship among small business programs.
    …, but at or below the simplified acquisition threshold, the requirement at 19.502-2(a) to set aside acquisitions for small business concerns does not preclude the contracting officer from awarding a contract to a small business under the 8(…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …Act of 1949 in the construction or development of the project. Bundling— (1) Means a subset of consolidation that combines two or more requirements for supplies or services, previously provided or performed under separate smaller contract…
  • FAR 16.505 Ordering.
    …ance with the procedures at 33.104. (iii) For protests of small business size status for set-aside orders, see 19.302. (11) Publicize orders funded in whole or in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5) …
  • FAR 19.201 General policy.
    …whether a particular acquisition should be awarded under subpart 19.5 as a small business set-aside, under subpart 19.8 as a section 8(a) award, under subpart 19.13 as a HUBZone set-aside, under subpart 19.14 as a set-aside for service-disa…
  • FAR 19.306 Protesting a firm's status as a HUBZone small business concern.
    …rn). Assertions that a protested concern is not a HUBZone small business concern, without setting forth specific facts or allegations, will not be considered by SBA (see 13 CFR 126.801(b)). (2) Protests filed against a HUBZone joint ventur…
  • FAR 19.307 Protesting a firm's status as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern.
    …disabled veteran” or “service-disabled veteran with a permanent and severe disability” as set forth in 13 CFR 128.102; or (ii) For ownership and control protests, the protester presents evidence that the concern is not 51 percent owned and…
  • FAR 19.308 Protesting a firm's status as an economically disadvantaged women-owned small business concern or women-owned small business concern eligible under the Women-Owned Small Business Program.
    … citizens, when it is in connection with an EDWOSB contract; or (iii) For WOSB or EDWOSB set-aside or sole-source service contracts or orders, the protest presents evidence that the prime contractor is unduly reliant on a small entity subc…
  • FAR 19.501 General.
    (a)(1) The purpose of small business set-asides is to award certain acquisitions exclusively to small business concerns. A “set-aside for small business” is the limiting of an acquisition exclusively for participation by small business conc…
  • FAR 19.505 Limitations on subcontracting and nonmanufacturer rule.
    (a) Applicability. (1) This section applies to small business set-asides above the simplified acquisition threshold and orders issued directly to a small business in accordance with 19.504(c)(1)(ii) above the simplified acquisition threshol…
  • FAR 19.1508 Contract clauses.
    (a) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.219-29, Notice of Set-Aside for, or Sole-Source Award to, Economically Disadvantaged Women-owned Small Business Concerns, in solicitations and contracts for acquisitions that are set…
  • FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …ion technology value-added resellers under NAICS code 541519, if the acquisition— (1) Is set aside for small business and has a value above the simplified acquisition threshold; (2) Uses the HUBZone price evaluation preference regardless …
  • FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …tters (OCT 2018) (41 U.S.C. 2313). __(14) [Reserved] __(15) 52.219-3, Notice of HUBZone Set-Aside or Sole-Source Award (OCT 2022) (15 U.S.C. 657a). __(16) 52.219-4, Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concern…
  • FAR 19.804-6 Indefinite-delivery contracts.
    …n contracts, or indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts) that have been set aside for exclusive competition among 8(a) contractors, and the individual order is to be competed among all 8(a) contract holders. SBA's acceptan…
  • FAR 52.227-13 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Government.
    …uire licensing pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 203 and 210(c) and in accordance with the procedures set forth in 37 CFR 401.6 and any supplemental regulations of the agency in effect on the date of the contract award. (iii) Upon request, the Contrac…
  • FAR 13.003 Policy.
    … micro-purchase threshold, but at or below the simplified acquisition threshold, shall be set aside for small business concerns (see 19.000, 19.203, and subpart 19.5). (2) The contracting officer may make an award to a small business conce…
  • FAR 15.304 Evaluation factors and significant subfactors.
    …(10 U.S.C. 3206(c)(1)(A)and 41 U.S.C. 3306(c)(1)(A)). (3)(i) Past performance, except as set forth in paragraph (c)(3)(iii) of this section, shall be evaluated in all source selections for negotiated competitive acquisitions expected to ex…
  • FAR 16.103 Negotiating contract type.
    … may make a different contract type appropriate in later periods than that used at the outset. In particular, contracting officers should avoid protracted use of a cost-reimbursement or time-and-materials contract after experience provides …
  • FAR 19.402 Small Business Administration procurement center representatives.
    …rectly pertinent to their official duties. (c) The duties assigned by SBA to its PCR are set forth at 13 CFR 125.2(b) and include but are not limited to the following: (1) Reviewing proposed acquisitions to recommend— (i) The set-aside o…
  • FAR 19.800 General.
    … an 8(a) participant that is currently performing on a Federal contract or order that was set aside for 8(a) participants. (b) Contracts may be awarded to the SBA for performance by eligible 8(a) participants on either a sole source or com…
  • FAR 19.1309 Contract clauses.
    (a) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.219-3, Notice of HUBZone Set-Aside or Sole-Source Award, in solicitations and contracts for acquisitions that are set aside or awarded on a sole-source basis to, HUBZone small busine…
  • FAR 19.1408 Contract clauses.
    (a) The contracting officer shall insert the clause at 52.219-27, Notice of Set-Aside for, or Sole-Source Award to, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Concerns Eligible Under the SDVOSB Program, in solicitations and cont…
  • FAR 25.401 Exceptions.
    (a) This subpart does not apply to— (1) Acquisitions set aside for small businesses; (2) Acquisitions of arms, ammunition, or war materials, or purchases indispensable for national security or for national defense purposes; (3) Acquisiti…
  • DFARS 215.371-4 Exceptions.
    …assistance; or to support response to an emergency or major disaster; (3) Small business set-asides under FAR subpart 19.5, set asides offered and accepted into the 8(a) Program under FAR subpart 19.8, or set-asides under the HUBZone Progr…
  • DFARS 226.7103 Procedure.
    … award through the section 8(a) program (subpart 219.8 and FAR subpart 19.8) or in making set-aside decisions under subpart 219.5 and FAR subpart 19.5 for acquisitions in support of a base closure or realignment, the contracting officer sha…
  • DFARS 252.227-7038 Patent Rights—Ownership by the Contractor (Large Business).
    …e, the Contractor— (i) Shall promptly submit a written notice to the Contracting Officer setting forth the subcontractor's reasons for the refusal and other pertinent information that may expedite disposition of the matter; and (ii) Shall…
  • FAR 12.207 Contract type.
    …a contract awarded using— (A) Competitive procedures (e.g., the procedures in 6.102, the set-aside procedures in Subpart 19.5, or competition conducted in accordance with Part 13); (B) The procedures for other than full and open competiti…
  • FAR 12.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    …ommercial Products and Commercial Services. This provision provides a single, streamlined set of instructions to be used when soliciting offers for commercial products or commercial services and is incorporated in the solicitation by refere…
  • FAR 19.302 Protesting a small business representation or rerepresentation.
    …es the apparently successful offeror for negotiated acquisitions, including— (A) Partial set-asides and reserves of multiple-award contracts; (B) Orders that are set-aside under an unrestricted multiple-award contract (except for orders a…
  • FAR 25.106 Determining reasonableness of cost.
    …t use this factor, or another factor established in agency regulations, in small business set-asides if the low offer is from a small business concern offering the product of a small business concern that is not a domestic end product (see …

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Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.