[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 13, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 13CFR125.3]

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                TITLE 13--BUSINESS CREDIT AND ASSISTANCE
 
                CHAPTER I--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 125--GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 125.3  Subcontracting assistance.

    (a) The purpose of the subcontracting assistance program is to 
achieve maximum utilization of small business by major prime 
contractors. The Act requires other-than-small firms awarded contracts 
that offer subcontracting possibilities by the Federal Government in 
excess of $500,000, or $1 million for construction of a public facility, 
to submit a subcontracting plan to the contracting agency. The FAR sets 
forth the requirements for subcontracting plans in 48 CFR part 19, 
subpart 19.7, and 48 CFR 52.219-9.
    (b) Upon determination of the successful subcontract offeror on a 
subcontract for which a small business, small disadvantaged business, 
and/or a HUBZone small business received a preference, but prior to 
award, the prime contractor must inform each unsuccessful offeror in 
writing of the name and location of the apparent successful offeror and 
if the successful offeror was a small business, small disadvantaged 
business, or HUBZone business. This applies to all subcontracts over 
$10,000.
    (c) SBA Commercial Market Representatives (CMRs) facilitate the 
process of matching large prime contractors with small, small 
disadvantaged, and HUBZone subcontractors. CMRs identify, develop, and 
market small businesses to the prime contractors and assist the small 
concerns in obtaining subcontracts.
    (d) Each CMR has a portfolio of prime contractors and conducts 
periodic compliance reviews and needs assessments of the companies in 
this portfolio. CMRs are also required to perform opportunity 
development and source identification. Opportunity development means 
assessing the current and future needs of the prime contractors. Source 
identification means identifying those small, small disadvantaged, and 
HUBZone concerns which can fulfill the needs assessed from the 
opportunity development process.

[61 FR 3312, Jan. 31, 1996; 61 FR 7986, Mar. 1, 1996, as amended at 63 
FR 31908, June 11, 1998]