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35 sections with “subcontracting plans”

  • 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…
  • FAR 19.705-5 Awards involving subcontracting plans.
    (a) In making an award that requires a subcontracting plan, the contracting officer shall be responsible for the following: (1) Consider the contractor's compliance with the subcontracting plans submitted on previous contracts as a factor …
  • 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 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…
  • DFARS 252.219-7003 Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts).
    …rescribed in 219.708(b)(1)(A) and (b)(1)(A)(1), use the following clause: Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts)—BASIC (DEC 2019) This clause supplements the Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracti…
  • 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 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 52.219-10 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…
  • 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 219.704 Subcontracting plan requirements.
    (1) In those subcontracting plans which specifically identify small businesses, prime contractors shall notify the administrative contracting officer of any substitutions of firms that are not small business firms, for the small business fi…
  • FAR 9.104-3 Application of standards.
    … a prospective contractor has sufficient resources or proposes to perform the contract by subcontracting, the contracting officer shall require acceptable evidence of the prospective contractor's ability to obtain required resources (see 9.…
  • 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 19.702 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 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 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…
  • 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…
  • DFARS 219.708 Contract clauses.
    …(1)(A) Use the basic, alternate I, or alternate II clause at 252.219-7003, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts), in solicitations and contracts, including solicitations and contracts using FAR part 12 procedures for the acquis…
  • 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 19.707 The Small Business Administration's role in carrying out the program.
    …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 solic…
  • DFARS 211.500 Scope.
    This subpart and FAR subpart 11.5 do not apply to liquidated damages for comprehensive subcontracting plans under the Test Program for Negotiation of Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plans. See 219.702-70 for coverage of liquidat…
  • DFARS 215.304 Evaluation factors and significant subfactors.
    (c)(i) In acquisitions that require use of the clause at FAR 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan, other than those based on the lowest price technically acceptable source selection process (see FAR 15.101-2), the extent of particip…
  • FAR 35.009 Subcontracting research and development effort.
    …ntracting officer shall obtain complete information concerning the contractor's plans for subcontracting any portion of the experimental, research, or development effort (see also 35.007(c)). Also when negotiating a fixed-price contract, th…
  • DFARS 219.706 Responsibilities of the cognizant administrative contracting officer.
    …administration office also is responsible for reviewing, evaluating, and approving master subcontracting plans. (ii) The small business specialist supports the administrative contracting officer in evaluating a contractor's performance and…
  • 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 11.500 Scope.
    …pment, and construction. (b) This subpart does not apply to liquidated damages— (1) For subcontracting plans (see 19.705-7); (2) Related to the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards statute (see subpart 22.3); or (3) Related to paid …
  • 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 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 …
  • 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…
  • 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 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…

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