Małe firmy · 13.01.1999

Government Contracting Programs

The Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to add regulatory language addressing contract bundling, due to changes set forth in sections 411-417 of the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-135). In addition, this rule restates SBA's current authority to appeal to the head of a procuring agency, decisions made by the agency that SBA believes to adversely affect small businesses. The statutory amendments recognize that the consolidation of contract requirements may be necessary and justified, in some cases, but require that each Federal agency, to the maximum extent practicable, take steps to avoid unnecessary and unjustified bundling of contract requirements that precludes small business participation as prime contractors as well as to eliminate obstacles to small business participation as prime contractors. Section 414 of Public Law 105-135 requires that the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) be modified to collect data regarding bundling of contracts when a contracting officer anticipates that the resulting contract price will exceed $5 million, including options. The SBA will confer with the Federal Procurement Data Center and analyze the data repo