[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR13.102]

[Page 201]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 13_SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart 13.1_Procedures
 
Sec.  13.102  Source list.

    (a) Contracting officers should use the Central Contractor 
Registration database (see Subpart 4.11) at http://www.ccr.gov as their 
primary sources of vendor information. Offices maintaining additional 
vendor source files or listings should identify the status of each 
source (when the status is made known to the contracting office) in the 
following categories:
    (1) Small business.
    (2) Small disadvantaged business.
    (3) Women-owned small business.
    (4) HUBZone small business.
    (5) Service-disabled veteran-owned small business.
    (6) Veteran-owned small business.
    (b) The status information may be used as the basis to ensure that 
small business concerns are provided the maximum practicable 
opportunities to respond to solicitations issued using simplified 
acquisition procedures.

[62 FR 64917, Dec. 9, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 58593, Oct. 30, 1998; 68 
FR 56672, Oct. 1, 2003]