[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: 48CFR19.705-2]

[Page 364-365]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 19_SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart 19.7_The Small Business Subcontracting Program
 
Sec.  19.705-2  Determining the need for a subcontracting plan.

    The contracting officer must take the following actions to determine 
whether a proposed contractual action requires a subcontracting plan:
    (a) Determine whether the proposed contractual action will meet the 
dollar threshold in 19.702(a)(1) or (2). If the action includes options 
or similar provisions, include their value in determining whether the 
threshold is met.
    (b) Determine whether subcontracting possibilities exist by 
considering relevant factors such as--
    (1) Whether firms engaged in the business of furnishing the types of 
items to be acquired customarily contract for performance of part of the 
work or maintain sufficient in-house capability to perform the work;
    (2) Whether there are likely to be product prequalification 
requirements; and
    (c) If it is determined that there are no subcontracting 
possibilities, the determination must be approved at a level above the 
contracting officer and placed in the contract file.
    (d) In solicitations for negotiated acquisitions, the contracting 
officer may require the submission of subcontracting plans with initial 
offers, or at

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any other time prior to award. In determining when subcontracting plans 
should be required, as well as when and with whom plans should be 
negotiated, the contracting officer must consider the integrity of the 
competitive process, the goal of affording maximum practicable 
opportunity for small business, veteran-owned small business, service-
disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small 
disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns to 
participate, and the burden placed on offerors.

[48 FR 42240, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 51 FR 2664, Jan. 17, 1986; 
51 FR 19716, May 30, 1986; 60 FR 48262, Sept. 18, 1995; 61 FR 2638, Jan. 
26, 1996; 63 FR 70271, Dec. 18, 1998; 65 FR 60545, Oct. 11, 2000; 66 FR 
53493, Oct. 22, 2001]