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26 sections with “subcontracting procedures”

  • 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 19.705-7 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 52.219-9 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 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, …
  • DFARS 225.872-8 Subcontracting with qualifying country sources.
    In reviewing contractor subcontracting procedures, the contracting officer shall ensure that the contract does not preclude qualifying country sources from competing for subcontracts, except when restricted by national security interest rea…
  • FAR 9.405-2 Restrictions on subcontracting.
    …s for this approval action. (See 9.405 concerning declarations of ineligibility affecting subcontracting.) (b) The Government suspends or debars contractors to protect the Government's interests. Contractors are prohibited from entering in…
  • 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 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…
  • 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 52.209-6 Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded.
    …scribed in 9.409, insert the following clause: Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, Proposed for Debarment, or Voluntarily Excluded (JAN 2025) (a) Definition. Commercially availabl…
  • 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 19.703 Eligibility requirements for participating in the program.
    …iness concern, a concern must meet the appropriate definition (see 2.101 and 19.001). For subcontracting purposes, a concern is small if it does not exceed the size standard for the NAICS code that the prime contractor determines best descr…
  • DFARS 252.244-7001 Contractor Purchasing System Administration.
    … 116-283). Purchasing system means the Contractor's system or systems for purchasing and subcontracting, including make-or-buy decisions, the selection of vendors, analysis of quoted prices, negotiation of prices with vendors, placing and …
  • 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 19.301-2 Rerepresentation by a contractor that represented its status as a small business concern.
    … the terms and conditions of the contract. However, the contracting officer may require a subcontracting plan for a contract containing 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan, if a prime contractor's size status changes from small to …
  • 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 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 19.811-3 Contract clauses.
    …or orders resulting from this subpart, see 19.507(e) for use of 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and 19.507(h) for use of 52.219-33, Nonmanufacturer Rule.
  • 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 52.232-16 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 270.105 Solicitation provisions and contract clause.
    … at 252.270-7001, Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Subcontracting Certification, in solicitations, including solicitations using FAR part 12 procedures for the acquisition of commercial products and co…

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