Administracja i zamówienia · 18/04/1997

Federal Acquisition Regulation; Empowerment Contracting

The Department Of Defense, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics And Space Administration are proposing amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to establish phase one of an Empowerment Contracting Program that provides procurement incentives to both large and small businesses to encourage their activity in areas of general and severe economic distress. This action is being taken to implement Presidential Executive Order 13005 of May 21, 1996, Empowerment Contracting. On September 13, 1996, the Department of Commerce (DoC) published in the Federal Register proposed guidelines for implementing Executive Order 13005 in the FAR. The amendments to the FAR that are being proposed in this rule are largely based on those guidelines. However, the amendments to the FAR in this proposed rule do depart from the September 13, 1996, guidelines in certain respects based either on comments received in response to the guidelines' publication or on the need to develop a program that could more readily be implemented. This regulatory action was subject to Office of Management and Budget review under Executive Order 12866, dated September 30, 1993. This is a major rule u