[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 13, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 13CFR125.6]

[Page 411-413]
 
                TITLE 13--BUSINESS CREDIT AND ASSISTANCE
 
                CHAPTER I--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 125--GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 125.6  Prime contractor performance requirements (limitations on subcontracting).

    (a) In order to be awarded a full or partial small business set-
aside contract, an 8(a) contract, or an unrestricted procurement where a 
concern has claimed a 10 percent small disadvantaged business (SDB) 
price evaluation preference, a small business concern must agree that:
    (1) In the case of a contract for services (except construction), 
the concern will perform at least 50 percent of the cost of the contract 
incurred for personnel with its own employees.
    (2) In the case of a contract for supplies or products (other than 
procurement from a non-manufacturer in such supplies or products), the 
concern will perform at least 50 percent of the cost

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of manufacturing the supplies or products (not including the costs of 
materials).
    (3) In the case of a contract for general construction, the concern 
will perform at least 15 percent of the cost of the contract with its 
own employees (not including the costs of materials).
    (4) In the case of a contract for construction by special trade 
contractors, the concern will perform at least 25 percent of the cost of 
the contract with its own employees (not including the cost of 
materials).
    (b) Definitions. The following definitions apply to this section:
    (1) Cost of the contract. All allowable direct and indirect costs 
allocable to the contract, excluding profit or fees.
    (2) Cost of contract performance incurred for personnel. Direct 
labor costs and any overhead which has only direct labor as its base, 
plus the concern's General and Administrative rate multiplied by the 
labor cost.
    (3) Cost of manufacturing. Those costs incurred by the firm in the 
production of the end item being acquired. These are costs associated 
with the manufacturing process, including the direct costs of 
fabrication, assembly, or other production activities, and indirect 
costs which are allocable and allowable. The cost of materials, as well 
as the profit or fee from the contract, are excluded.
    (4) Cost of materials. Includes costs of the items purchased, 
handling and associated shipping costs for the purchased items (which 
includes raw materials), off-the-shelf items (and similar 
proportionately high-cost common supply items requiring additional 
manufacturing or incorporation to become end items), special tooling, 
special testing equipment, and construction equipment purchased for and 
required to perform on the contract. In the case of a supply contract, 
the acquisition of services or products from outside sources following 
normal commercial practices within the industry are also included.
    (5) Off-the-shelf item. An item produced and placed in stock by a 
manufacturer, or stocked by a distributor, before orders or contracts 
are received for its sale. The item may be commercial or may be produced 
to military or Federal specifications or description. Off-the-shelf 
items are also known as Nondevelopmental Items (NDI).
    (6) Personnel. Individuals who are ``employees'' under Sec. 121.106 
of this chapter.
    (7) Subcontracting. That portion of the contract performed by a 
firm, other than the concern awarded the contract, under a second 
contract, purchase order, or agreement for any parts, supplies, 
components, or subassemblies which are not available off-the-shelf, and 
which are manufactured in accordance with drawings, specifications, or 
designs furnished by the contractor, or by the government as a portion 
of the solicitation. Raw castings, forgings, and moldings are considered 
as materials, not as subcontracting costs. Where the prime contractor 
has been directed by the Government to use any specific source for 
parts, supplies, components subassemblies or services, the costs 
associated with those purchases will be considered as part of the cost 
of materials, not subcontracting costs.
    (c) Compliance will be considered an element of responsibility and 
not a component of size eligibility.
    (d) The period of time used to determine compliance will be the 
period of performance which the evaluating agency uses to evaluate the 
proposal or bid. If the evaluating agency fails to articulate in its 
solicitation the period of performance it will use to evaluate the 
proposal or bid, the base contract period, excluding options, will be 
used to determine compliance. In indefinite quantity contracts, 
performance over the guaranteed minimum will be used to determine 
compliance unless the evaluating agency articulates a different period 
of performance which it will use to evaluate the proposal or bid in its 
solicitation.
    (e) Work to be performed by subsidiaries or other affiliates of a 
concern is not counted as being performed by the concern for purposes of 
determining whether the concern will perform the required percentage of 
work.
    (f) The procedures of Sec. 125.5 apply where the contracting officer 
determines non-compliance, the procurement is a full or partial small 
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set-aside or an SDB has claimed a preference, and refers the matter to 
SBA for a COC determination.
    (g) Where an offeror is exempt from affiliation under 
Sec. 121.103(f)(3) of this chapter and qualifies as a small business 
concern, the performance of work requirements set forth in this section 
apply to the cooperative effort of the team or joint venture, not its 
individual members.

[61 FR 3312, Jan. 31, 1996; 61 FR 39305, July 20, 1996; as amended at 64 
FR 57372, Oct. 25, 1999; 65 FR 45835, July 26, 2000]