[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 48CFR19.705-2]



[Page 377-378]

 

            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 

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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 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]