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24 sections with “subcontracting plan goals”

  • 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 19.704 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 19.705-2 Determining the need for a subcontracting plan.
    … take the following actions to determine whether a proposed contractual action requires a subcontracting plan: (a)(1) Determine whether the proposed total contract-dollars will exceed the subcontracting plan threshold in 19.702(a). (2) De…
  • 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 219.702-70 Statutory requirements for the Test Program for Negotiation of Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plans.
    …15 U.S.C. 637 note, DoD has established a test program to determine whether comprehensive subcontracting plans on a corporate, division, or plant-wide basis will reduce administrative burdens while enhancing subcontracting opportunities for…
  • 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 52.219-10 Incentive Subcontracting Program.
    As prescribed in 19.708(c)(1), insert the following clause: Incentive Subcontracting Program (OCT 2014) (a) Of the total dollars it plans to spend under subcontracts, the Contractor has committed itself in its subcontracting plan to try t…
  • DFARS 219.705-4 Reviewing the subcontracting plan.
    (d)(i) Challenge any subcontracting plan that does not contain positive goals. A small disadvantaged business goal of less than five percent must be approved one level above the contracting officer. (ii) The contracting officer may use the…
  • 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 19.702 Statutory requirements.
    …of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)) imposes the following requirements regarding subcontracting with small businesses and small business subcontracting plans: (i) In negotiated acquisitions, each solicitation of offers to perform …
  • FAR 15.304 Evaluation factors and significant subfactors.
    …s concerns, involving consolidation or bundling, that offer a significant opportunity for subcontracting, the contracting officer shall include a factor to evaluate past performance indicating the extent to which the offeror attained applic…
  • FAR 19.701 Definitions.
    …partnerships that meet the requirements of 43 U.S.C. 1626(e)(2). Commercial plan means a subcontracting plan (including goals) that covers the offeror's fiscal year and that applies to the entire production of commercial products and perfo…
  • FAR 19.705-1 General.
    (a) The contracting officer may encourage the development of increased subcontracting opportunities in negotiated acquisition by providing monetary incentives such as payments based on actual subcontracting achievement or award-fee contract…
  • 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 19.706 Responsibilities of the cognizant administrative contracting officer.
    The administrative contracting officer is responsible for assisting in evaluating subcontracting plans, and for monitoring, evaluating, and documenting contractor performance under the clause prescribed in 19.708(b) and any subcontracting p…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 219.7104 Developmental assistance costs eligible for reimbursement or credit.
    …ember 30, 2026, that are eligible for crediting under the Program, may be credited toward subcontracting plan goals as set forth in appendix I. For mentor-protégé agreements entered into on or after December 23, 2022, developmental assistan…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 219.7102 General.
    …stances justify reimbursement using a separate contract; or (2) Credit toward applicable subcontracting goals, established under a subcontracting plan negotiated under FAR subpart 19.7 or under the DoD Comprehensive Subcontracting Test Pro…
  • FAR 42.1502 Policy.
    …) Performance against, and efforts to achieve, the goals identified in the small business subcontracting plan when the contract includes the clause at 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan; and (2) Reduced or untimely payments (as d…
  • 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 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…

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