Small Business Size Standards; Waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule

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The Small Business Administration (SBA) is considering granting a waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for towers, telephone and telegraph apparatus, electrical measuring and integrating instruments, engines and turbines, storage batteries, cellular handsets and telephones, automobile motor vehicles, motor trucks (except off- highway), fuel, radiotelephones, and fiber optic cable. The basis for a waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for these products is that there are no small business manufacturers or processors available to supply these products to the Federal Government. The effect of a waiver would be to allow an otherwise qualified Nonmanufacturer to supply other than the product of a domestic small business manufacturer or processor on a Federal contract set aside for small businesses or awarded through the SBA 8(a) Program. The purpose of this notice is to solicit comments and potential source information from interested parties.