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37 sections with “subcontracting data”

  • FAR 19.704 Subcontracting plan requirements.
    (a) Each subcontracting plan required under 19.301-2(e) and 19.702(a)(1)(i), (ii), and (iii) shall include— (1) Separate percentage goals for using small business (including ANCs and Indian tribes), veteran-owned small business, service-di…
  • FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
    As prescribed in 19.708(b), insert the following clause: Small Business Subcontracting Plan (JAN 2025) (a) This clause does not apply to small business concerns. (b) Definitions. As used in this clause— Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) m…
  • FAR 19.705-4 Reviewing the subcontracting plan.
    The contracting officer shall review the subcontracting plan for adequacy, ensuring that the required information, goals, and assurances are included (see 19.704). (a) No detailed standards apply to every subcontracting plan. Instead, the …
  • FAR 19.705-7 Compliance with the subcontracting plan.
    …d economic benefits. When a contractor fails to make a good faith effort to comply with a subcontracting plan, these objectives are not achieved, and 15 U.S.C. 637(d)(4)(F) directs that liquidated damages shall be paid by the contractor. (…
  • FAR 52.219-16 Liquidated Damages—Subcontracting Plan.
    As prescribed in 19.708(b)(2), insert the following clause: Liquidated Damages—Subcontracting Plan (SEP 2021) (a) Failure to make a good faith effort to comply with the subcontracting plan, as used in this clause, means a willful or inten…
  • DFARS 252.219-7004 Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program).
    As prescribed in 219.708(b)(1)(B), use the following clause: Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program) (DEC 2022) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Covered small business concern means a small business concern, veteran-own…
  • FAR 5.206 Notices of subcontracting opportunities.
    …iness and service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns, and to meet established subcontracting plan goals: (1) A contractor awarded a contract exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold that is likely to result in the award o…
  • FAR 19.705-6 Postaward responsibilities of the contracting officer.
    After a contract or contract modification containing a subcontracting plan is awarded or an existing subcontracting plan is amended, the contracting officer shall do the following: (a) Notify the SBA of the award by sending a copy of the a…
  • FAR 19.708 Contract clauses.
    …ited States and its outlying areas. (b)(1) Insert the clause at 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan, in solicitations and contracts that offer subcontracting possibilities, are expected to exceed $900,000 ($2 million for construct…
  • FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …te I (DEC 2023) of 52.204-30. __(12) 52.209-6, Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded. (JAN 2025) (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). __(13) 52.209…
  • FAR 42.302 Contract administration functions.
    …n-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone, and service-disabled veteran-owned small business master subcontracting plans. (53) Obtain the contractor's currently approved company- or division-wide plans for small, small disadvantaged, women-owned, ve…
  • FAR 42.1503 Procedures.
    …. (iii) Schedule/timeliness. (iv) Management or business relations. (v) Small business subcontracting, including reduced or untimely payments to small business subcontractors when 19.702(a) requires a subcontracting plan (as applicable, …
  • FAR 52.227-14 Rights in Data—General.
    …treated as limited rights data and not restricted computer software. (3) [Reserved] (h) Subcontracting. The Contractor shall obtain from its subcontractors all data and rights therein necessary to fulfill the Contractor's obligations to t…
  • FAR 52.227-20 Rights in Data—SBIR Program.
    … identify the data being withheld, and furnish form, fit, and function data instead. (g) Subcontracting. The Contractor shall obtain from its subcontractors all data and rights therein necessary to fulfill the Contractor's obligations to t…
  • FAR 53.219 Small business programs.
    …s (including Alaska Native Corporations and Indian tribes) and women-owned small business subcontracting data, as specified in part 19: SF 294, (Rev. NOV 2021) Subcontracting Report for Individual Contracts. SF 294 is authorized for local r…
  • DFARS 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    …09(1), to comply with 10 U.S.C. 4959. (B) Use the clause at 252.219-7003, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts), to comply with 15 U.S.C. 637. (1) Use the basic clause as prescribed in 219.708(b)(1)(A)(1). (2) Use the altern…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …l under 9.406 to exclude a contractor from Government contracting and Government-approved subcontracting for a reasonable, specified period; a contractor that is “debarred” is excluded Delivery order means an order for supplies placed agai…
  • FAR 4.602 General.
    …reports for certain acquisition information used in the award of a contract action (e.g., subcontracting data, funding data, or accounting data). (c) The FPDS Web site, https://www.fpds.gov, provides instructions for submitting data. It al…
  • FAR 15.305 Proposal evaluation.
    …ce. (v) The evaluation should include the past performance of offerors in complying with subcontracting plan goals for small disadvantaged business (SDB) concerns (see subpart 19.7). (vi) For offerors that are joint ventures, the evaluati…
  • FAR 15.407-2 Make-or-buy programs.
    …d, veteran-owned, HUBZone, and service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns for subcontracting, establishment of new facilities in or near labor surplus areas, delivery or performance schedules, control of technical and schedule i…
  • FAR 16.104 Factors in selecting contract types.
    …ding their pricing arrangements, should be considered. (k) Extent and nature of proposed subcontracting. If the contractor proposes extensive subcontracting, a contract type reflecting the actual risks to the prime contractor should be sel…
  • FAR 44.202-2 Considerations.
    …e contractor complied with the prime contract requirements regarding— (i) Small business subcontracting, including, if applicable, its plan for subcontracting with small, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone, small disadv…
  • DFARS 242.1502 Policy.
    …against, and efforts to achieve, the goals identified in its comprehensive small business subcontracting plan when the contract contains the clause at 252.219-7004, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program); (ii) Shall, unless exem…
  • FAR 9.604 Limitations.
    …ned or controlled by the Government; (d) Pursue its policies on competitive contracting, subcontracting, and component breakout after initial production or at any other time; and (e) Hold the prime contractor fully responsible for contrac…
  • FAR 12.303 Contract format.
    …1449; (b) Continuation of any block from SF 1449, such as— (1) Block 10 if an incentive subcontracting clause is used (the contracting officer shall indicate the applicable percentage); (2) Block 18B for remittance address; (3) Block 19…
  • FAR 15.404-3 Subcontract pricing considerations.
    …le for the determination of a fair and reasonable price for the prime contract, including subcontracting costs. The contracting officer should consider whether a contractor or subcontractor has an approved purchasing system, has performed c…
  • FAR 16.603-2 Application.
    …ata and data other than certified cost or pricing data; and, if required, make-or-buy and subcontracting plans, (2) a date for the start of negotiations, and (3) a target date for definitization, which shall be the earliest practicable date…
  • FAR 19.201 General policy.
    … for education and training on compliance with contracting regulations; (17) Reviews all subcontracting plans required by 19.702(a) to ensure the plan provides maximum practicable opportunity for small business concerns to participate in t…
  • FAR 19.602-1 Referral.
    …lity, competency, capacity, credit, integrity, perseverance, tenacity, and limitations on subcontracting but for sureties see 28.101-3(f) and 28.203-1(e)), the contracting officer shall— (1) Withhold contract award (see 19.602-3); and (2)…
  • FAR 32.304-2 Certificate of eligibility.
    …) The comparative prices available from other sources. (8) The disruption of established subcontracting arrangements. (9) Other pertinent factors. (f) The contracting officer shall attach sufficient data to the certificate of eligibility…
  • FAR 42.1501 General.
    …ment to customer satisfaction; (5) Complying with the requirements of the small business subcontracting plan (see 19.705-7(b)), including favorable consideration of a mentor with an SBA-approved mentor-protégé agreement (see 13 CFR 125.9) …
  • FAR 44.305-3 Withholding or withdrawing approval.
    …ance notification as required by the clauses prescribed in 44.204; or (4) Small business subcontracting (see subpart 19.7). (b) When approval of the contractor's purchasing system is withheld or withdrawn, the ACO shall within 10 days aft…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …hrough its information system.) (ii) 52.209-6, Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded (JAN 2025) (Applies to contracts over the thresho…
  • FAR 52.216-25 Contract Definitization.
    …f proposal, beginning of negotiations, and, if appropriate, submission of make-or-buy and subcontracting plans and certified cost or pricing data]: (c) If agreement on a definitive contract to supersede this letter contract is not reached …
  • FAR 52.232-16 Progress Payments.
    …ned and transferred to the Contractor. (9) To facilitate small business participation in subcontracting under this contract, the Contractor shall provide financing payments to small business concerns, in conformity with the standards for c…
  • DFARS 228.370-2 General.
    …fferor's proposed aircraft flight and ground operations facility. If the offeror proposed subcontracting any aircraft work, the preaward survey should include a review of the subcontractor's facility. For acquisitions falling under the exce…
  • DFARS 252.217-7027 Contract Definitization.
    …oposal, beginning of negotiations, and, if appropriate, submission of the make-or-buy and subcontracting plans and certified cost or pricing data]: (d) If agreement on a definitive contract action to supersede this undefinitized contract a…

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