Procurement Assistance to Small Businesses

 

To assist small business in obtaining a "fair" share of contracts and subcontracts for Federal government supplies and services and a "fair" share of property sold by the government.

Deleted 02/05/2016 (Archived.) 59.009 Agency: Small Business Administration PROVISION OF SPECIALIZED SERVICES Fiscal Year 2008: See the FY 2010 Performance and Accountability Report at www.sba.gov. Fiscal Year 2009: See the FY 2010 Performance and Accountability Report at www.sba.gov. Fiscal Year 2010: See the FY 2010 Performance and Accountability Report at www.sba.gov. Small Business Act of 1953, Public Law 85-536. Existing and potential small businesses are eligible to apply. A small business is a business entity organized for profit, with a place of business located in the United States and which makes a significant contribution to the U.S. economy through payment of taxes and/or use of American Products, materials and/or labor. Generally, an employee based size standard not in excess of 500 employees is used for manufacturers for wholesalers, average employment not in excess of 500 is used; for general construction, a revenue based size standard not over $28,500,000 is used; for specialty trade construction, revenues not over $12,000,000 is used; for retail and services contracts, revenues not over $6,000,000 is used; and for agricultural enterprises, gross annual sales not over $750,000 is used. Existing and potential small businesses will benefit. Self-certification of documentation is sufficient for representation as a small business, women-owned small business, veteran-owned small business and service-disabled veteran-owned small business. SBA certification is required for status as a HUBZone small business, 8(a) small business, and Small Disadvantaged Business. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-87. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. Environmental impact information is not required for this program. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-102. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-110. Forms to obtain necessary assistance are provided by SBA field offices. None. Contact the headquarters or regional office, as appropriate, for application deadlines. The range is about 15 days for certificate of competency; no approval is required on other programs. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. Not Applicable. Assistance includes: (1) Application of small business set-asides (restriction of bidding/award to small business only) to increase the Federal procurement and disposal requirements awarded to small business; (2) consultation with procuring activities on structuring of procurement and sales planning to optimize small business participation; (3) review and analysis of small firms capacity, credit, integrity, perseverance, and tenacity when challenged by contracting officers and certifying competence of such firms to perform as prime contractors, as appropriate, and monitoring performance of certificate of competency holders throughout contract life; (4) review of subcontracting plans and programs of large prime contractors to determine the extent that they are providing subcontracting opportunities to small, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone, small disadvantaged, and women-owned small businesses; (5) consultation and advice for small firms requesting assistance on government procurement or property sales matters; (6) assistance in specific contract administration problems; (7) determination of small business eligibility for SBA's procurement and financial programs; (8) advocate breakout of items from sole source for procurement through full and open competition in order to achieve savings; (9) review small business program at Federal procuring activities to evaluate effect on small business participation and recommend changes; and (10) management of the Central Contractor Registration's Dynamic Small Business Search, a nationwide Internet database of information on small business, a marketing tool for small firms and a "link" to procurement opportunities. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 27, 2003), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133. Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. This program has no statutory formula.
This program has no matching requirements.
This program does not have MOE requirements. There is no time restriction for small businesses. See the following for information on how assistance is awarded/released: Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. See Regional Agency Offices. Initial contact should be made with the field offices listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog. SBA Executive Secretariat 409 3rd. Street, SW, Washington, District of Columbia 20416 Email: SBAExecSec@sba.gov Phone: 1-800-827-5722 http://www.sba.gov. 73-0100-0-1-376. (Salaries) FY 08 $30,579,000; FY 09 est $31,523,000; and FY 10 est $38,573,000 Additional information available at SBA's website at www.sba.gov. Not Applicable. Not Applicable.