1. Lesson 5: Subcontracting Requirements During Solicitation and Award
The Solicitation and Award phase is a critical time for ensuring that a proactive subcontracting approach is implemented. The approach described in the Acquisition Plan must be implemented in this phase.
In this lesson, you’ll learn about:
Reviewing the solicitation
Participating in evaluation (source selection)
Participating in negotiation

2. Terminal Learning Objective
During the Solicitation and Award phase of an acquisition, assist the acquisition team in clearly describing subcontracting requirements of the solicitation, evaluating small business participation and past performance, assessing small business subcontracting plans, and negotiating any subcontracting issues with offerors.
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3. Contracting Process for Acquisitions
Pre-Solicitation
Solicitation-Award
Post-Award
Pre-Solicitation
Solicitation - Award
Post-Award
Initial Planning/Form the Team
Solicitation (RFQ, IFB, RFP)
Monitor Performance
Market Research
Evaluation
Deliverables
Payments
Define Requirements (PWS, SOW, SOO)
Negotiation
This lesson focuses on the Solicitation and Award phase of the contracting process, which includes:
Drafting and issuing the solicitation
Evaluating proposals
Negotiating with offerors
Awarding the contract
Acquisition Business Strategy
Award
Closeouts
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4. Enabling Learning Objectives
Review the solicitation to ensure appropriate subcontracting language, clauses, and evaluation criteria are incorporated.
Develop solicitation language, clauses, and evaluation criteria for a given acquisition.
Support the acquisition team in evaluating small business participation requirements during the source selection
process and in assessing the small business
subcontracting plan.
Assist the Contracting Officer with developing
a negotiation objective for subcontracting
with offerors.
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5. Section H: Special Contract Requirements
Submit periodic reports on small business utilization in addition to Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) reports.
Address any other requirements related to small business participation.
Section H contains special contract requirements.
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6. Section I: Contract Clauses
FAR , Utilization of Small Business Concerns
FAR , Liquidated Damages—Subcontracting Plan
FAR , Incentive Subcontracting Program
DFARS DEVIATION 2016-O0009, Small Business Subcontracting Plan
DFARS , Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts)
DFARS , Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program)
FAR = Federal Acquisition Regulation
DFARS = Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
Section I contains contract clauses.
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7. Section J: Attachments
PWS/ SOO/ SOW
Small Business Participation Requirements
CDRL
Small Business Subcontracting Reporting
Award Fee Plan
Section J contains attachments, including the requirements documents (SOW/PWS/SOO Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL), and Award Fee Plan). The SOW/PWS/SOO can actually be in Section C, but if it is voluminous it is an attachment in Section J. For our purposes it will be an attachment.
Incentive Subcontracting Element
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8. Section L: Instructions, Conditions, and Notices
Who must submit?
What must be submitted?
Will become part of contract
Small Business Participation Commitment Document
Small Business Subcontracting Plan
Past Performance Information
Section L contains instructions, conditions, and notices to offerors or respondents.
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9. Section M: Evaluation Factors for Award
What will be assessed and evaluated?
How will it be assessed and evaluated?
Small Business Participation Commitment Document
Small Business Subcontracting Plan
Past Performance Information
Section M contains evaluation factors for award.
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10. Activity 5.1: Review the Uniform Contract Format (UCF) Solicitation Sections
Activity Context: To be familiar with the solicitation sections that contain subcontracting provisions and clauses
In the Solicitation and Award phase, their first major task will be to review the solicitation. Solicitations can be very lengthy, so they need to understand how solicitations are organized into sections and which sections contain provisions and clauses related to subcontracting.
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11. Activity 5.1: Review the Uniform Contract Format (UCF) Solicitation Sections (cont’d.)
Use FAR to review the sections of the UCF and identify the section in which each solicitation excerpt belongs.
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12. Activity 5.2: Solicitation Review Checklist for Subcontracting Matters
Activity Context: When reviewing solicitations that are not set-asides, SBPs need to ensure small business participation is maximized using subcontracting.
When you review solicitations that are not set aside, one of the key things they will look at is the subcontracting elements. FAR requires that any contractor receiving a contract for more than the simplified acquisition threshold must agree in the contract that small businesses (including SDVOSB, HUBZone, SDB, VOSB, and WOSB) will have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the contract consistent with efficient contract performance. The subcontracting provisions and clauses ensure that offerors will implement this policy if they are awarded a contract. As SBPs, your aim is to maximize small business participation, and subcontracting provides a way to accomplish this when the acquisition is not set aside.
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13. Activity 5.2: Solicitation Review Checklist for Subcontracting Matters (cont’d.)
Determine who will review Sections H, I, J, L, and M.
Use the Solicitation Review Checklist for Subcontracting Matters to review the appropriate section(s).
For each item in the checklist, mark “Yes,” “No,” or “Not Applicable” (NA). For “No” items, write a recommendation in the Recommendation column.
As a team, prepare a 10-minute presentation on your findings.
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14. Activity 5.2 Rubric
You will use the activity rubric, which identifies desired behaviors, to rate your performance.
Desired Behaviors
Use the Solicitation Review Checklist for Subcontracting Matters to review and analyze a solicitation.
If the solicitation does not comply with all checklist items, recommend ways to improve the solicitation.
Collaborate effectively with your team to consolidate your recommendations.
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15. Activity 5.3: Develop Solicitation Language, Clauses, and Evaluation Criteria
Activity Context:
As a best practice, SBPs should proactively seek to draft the parts of the solicitation related to small business.
SBPs are the small business experts on the acquisition team. As a best practice, they should proactively seek to draft the parts of the solicitation related to small business.
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16. Activity 5.3: Develop Solicitation Language, Clauses, and Evaluation Criteria (cont’d.)
For the given scenario, draft the small business subcontracting parts of sections H, L, and M of the solicitation.
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17. Activity 5.3 Rubric
You will use the activity rubric, which identifies desired behaviors, to rate your performance.
Desired Behaviors
Carefully analyze the given scenario.
Include the appropriate information for each section.
Draft language that is easily understood by potential offerors.
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18. SBP Role in Source Selection
Assist with:
Evaluating small business participation (using the Small Business Participation Commitment Document [SBPCD])
Evaluating small business past performance
Assessing proposed small business subcontracting plans
In the source selection process, a variety of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) participate in the source selection to review or evaluate different parts of offerors’ proposals; for instance, someone may provide cost analysis, the engineer would review the technical part, etc.
If the acquisition is not a small business set-aside, the SBP will typically assist with:
Evaluating small business participation
Evaluating small business past performance
Assessing proposed small business subcontracting plans
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19. Evaluating SBPCD The SBPCD is evaluated as :
A separate small business participation evaluation factor (preferred method)
A subfactor under the technical factor
A consideration within the evaluation of a technical subfactor
Offerors should be required to submit an SBPCD as part of their proposal if the solicitation contains the clause at DEVIATION 2016-O0009 and it is a competitive, negotiated acquisition other than lowest-priced technically acceptable or is a bundled contract (see FAR and DFARS ). The SBPCD is evaluated as:
A separate small business participation evaluation factor (preferred method)
A subfactor under the technical factor
A consideration within the evaluation of a technical subfactor
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20. SBPCD Considerations
Identify specific small business subcontractors. Identify what subcontractors will provide. Provide enforceable commitments. Is the amount of subcontracting realistic?
The SBPCD provides the Government the opportunity to evaluate how the offeror plans to execute its small business subcontracting strategy. The SBPCD may require the offeror to identify specific small business subcontractors, describe what they will be providing, provide enforceable commitments, demonstrate how realistic their proposal is, and express small business participation quantitatively in terms of TCV. The offerors proposed commitments (requirements), in turn, should become a material part of the resultant contract.
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21. Activity 5.4: Evaluation of SBPCDs
An SBPCD should be required:
If the solicitation contains the clause at DEVIATION O0009 and it is a competitive, negotiated acquisition other than lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA), or if it is a bundled contract
For all offerors, including small businesses
SBPs will be responsible for evaluating small business participation in offerors’ proposals. To accomplish the evaluation, an SBPCD should be required for all offerors, including small businesses (unlike the small business subcontracting plan, which is only required for Other Than Small Businesses). The evaluation criteria for a solicitation involving bundling will be structured to allow small businesses to receive the highest rating on small business participation and past performance on small business utilization (FAR (a)(5)).
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22. Activity 5.4: Evaluation of SBPCDs (cont’d.)
Evaluate two SBPCD submissions in accordance with (IAW) the Section M evaluation criteria:
ABC Company
ETD Company
This is a graded activity.
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23. Activity 5.4 Graded Rubric
The instructors will use the following criteria to award points (up to 5 points for each company) for a total of 10 points.
Evaluation Element
Points Scored
ABC Company M :
1 point
ABC Company M :
0.5 point
ABC Company M :
ABC Company M :
ABC Company M :
ABC Company M :
ABC Company overall rating:
ETD Company M :
ETD Company M :
ETD Company M :
ETD Company M :
ETD Company M :
ETD Company M :
ETD Company overall rating:
Evaluation Element Points
M : 1 point
M : point
M : point
M : 1 point
M : point
M : point
Overall rating point
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24. Activity 5.4 Key Points
Make Sections L and M as specific as possible so
that ratings are less subjective and variable.
Select evaluation criteria that are appropriate
for the acquisition.
Small business subcontracting plans should not be used to evaluate small business participation because they are not required of all offerors—they are assessed as acceptable or negotiated.
SBPCDs ask for more in-depth information than small business subcontracting plans.
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25. Activity 5.4 Key Points (cont’d.)
Define the structure of the SBPCD in the
solicitation and set an MQR if appropriate.
Incorporate small business participation
requirements into the contract so that they are legally
enforceable.
For solicitations involving bundling, structure the evaluation criteria to give offers from small businesses the highest ratings.
Solicitations differ in their criteria, so carefully follow the criteria.
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26. Small Business Past Performance
Evaluating past performance of complying with clauses at FAR , Utilization of Small Business Concerns and FAR DEVIATION 2016-O0009, Small Business Subcontracting Plan
Past Performance Evaluation Factor
Small Business Participation Evaluation Factor
In accordance with DFARS , when a past performance evaluation is required by FAR , the evaluation factors shall include the past performance of offerors in complying with requirements of the following clauses if they are included in the solicitation:
FAR , Utilization of Small Business Concerns
FAR DEVIATION 2016-O0009, Small Business Subcontracting Plan
Past performance of complying with these two clauses can be evaluated as part of a Past Performance Evaluation Factor or Small Business Participation Evaluation Factor. The rating criteria would be identified in Section M of the Request for Proposal (RFP).
If small business past performance is part of a Small Business Participation Evaluation Factor, the SBP may provide the overall rating. If there were serious weaknesses or deficiencies, the SBP would write up the weaknesses for discussions, if they are held, or for possible rejection of the offer if no discussions are held.
If small business past performance is part of a Past Performance Evaluation Factor, the SBP may provide the Contracting Officer—or whoever is in charge of the past performance evaluation—any small business evaluation to be included in the overall relevancy rating confidence assessment.
SBP may provide rating
SBP may contribute to overall rating
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27. Small Business Past Performance: Why Evaluate?
Will the offeror satisfy its commitment to maximizing small business participation in its contracts?
The goal of the evaluation is to assess the relevancy and degree of confidence the Government has in the offeror’s ability to satisfy its commitment to maximizing small business participation in its contracts.
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28. Small Business Past Performance: What To Evaluate
Prior use of small businesses? Types and complexity of work? History of prompt payment? Compliance with reporting requirements? Meeting subcontracting goals? Compliance with small business subcontracting plan overall?
Examples of elements of small business utilization past performance (compliance with FAR ) to evaluate include:
Actual prior use of small businesses
Use of small businesses in the socioeconomic categories
Types of work performed by small businesses
Complexity of the work performed by small businesses
Reporting of small business performance in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS)
History of prompt payments to small businesses
Note: Evaluation of small business past performance is not limited to evaluation of performance of Other Than Small Businesses only, but also includes the evaluation of small businesses’ past performance of using fellow small businesses.
Additionally, when a small business subcontracting plan is required, evaluation of small business past performance (compliance with FAR DEVIATION 2016-O0009) should include an evaluation of:
Performance against subcontracting goals
Compliance with the small business subcontracting plan in general
For bundled contracts, the evaluation shall be structured to give small businesses the highest ratings (FAR (a)(v)).
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29. Small Business Past Performance: Sources of Information
DCMA
SBA PCR
ACO
Databases
Sources include:
Individuals/organizations that may have knowledge of the offeror’s past performance:
Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
Small Business Administration (SBA) Procurement Center Representative (PCR)
Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO)
Databases (discussed next)
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30. Databases with Subcontracting Information
eSRS
FSRS
PPIRS
Requirement to report subcontracting
Contract greater than $700K ($1.5M for construction)
Subcontracts greater than $30K
Has subcontracting plan and CPARS threshold is met
Type of Data
Dollar amount and percentage of subcontract awards to small businesses and socioeconomic category businesses
Name of subcontractor, amount of subcontract, date of subcontract award, and description of products or services provided by subcontractor
Adjectival rating and comments on how well contractor met commitments of subcontracting plan and other small business requirements
eSRS
The Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) requires Other Than Small Business contractors to report only the dollar amount and percentage of small business subcontract awards for an individual plan or commercial plan, or for the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan for each reporting period.
It is required for contracts or new modifications for awards greater than $700K, or $1.5M for construction.
FAR DEVIATION 2016-O0009 describes the information the contractor is to submit in its Individual Subcontract Report (ISR) and/or its Summary Subcontract Report (SSR).
The Web site for eSRS is
FSRS
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) is the reporting tool that Federal prime awardees (i.e., prime contractors and prime grants recipients) use to capture and report subaward and executive compensation data regarding their first-tier subawards to meet the FFATA reporting requirements.
FSRS requires the contractor to report on subcontracts valued at $30K or more and to provide:
Name of subcontractor
Amount of the subcontract
Date of the subcontract award
Description of the product or services provided by the subcontractor
Other identifying information required in FAR Reporting Executive Compensation and First Tier Subcontract Award
The Web site for FSRS is:
CPARS/PPIRS
The CPARS is the system used by the Contracting Officer or the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) to input contractor contract performance information to include small business performance when a small business subcontracting plan is included in the contract and the dollar threshold for reporting into CPARS is met. Based on the CPARS data, a report of a contractor’s performance is generated to the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS). PPIRS reports are available to the appropriate Government personnel only during source selections. Information concerning CPARS evaluation of Small Business Subcontracting can be found at FAR
The Web site for PPIRS is
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31. Activity 5.5: Evaluation of Small Business Past Performance
Activity Context:
SBPs participate in source selections to evaluate an offeror’s past performance in complying with FAR , Utilization of Small Business Concerns and DEVIATION O0009, Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
An important part of past performance evaluation is past performance on small business subcontracting. This information demonstrates how reliably offerors have fulfilled their past commitments to maximize small business participation in subcontract opportunities and whether they demonstrated good-faith effort in their small business subcontracting efforts. Past performance is often an indicator of how well a concern will perform on a future contract.
Past performance information can be obtained from data bases such as eSRS, PPIRS, and FSRS. Additionally, offerors typically provide information requested as part of the proposal, and other Government sources
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32. Activity 5.5: Evaluation of Small Business Past Performance (cont’d.)
Evaluate an offeror’s small business past performance data on subcontracting using the Section M evaluation criteria.
Document your findings and assign a rating on the worksheet.
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33. Activity 5.5 Rubric
You will use the activity rubric, which identifies desired behaviors, to rate your performance.
Desired Behaviors
Evaluate past performance information on small business subcontracting of offerors, focusing on the evaluation factors in the solicitation.
Provide a clear and complete explanation for your findings.
Document your findings with supporting rationale.
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34. Small Business Subcontracting Plans
SBPs:
Assess whether the small business subcontracting plan is acceptable.
Give recommendations for improvements to the Contracting Officer for use in negotiations.
NOTE: SBA PCR also may review the small business subcontracting plan.
Small Business Subcontracting Plan
SBPs assess small business subcontracting plans to determine whether they are acceptable or not. They give their recommendations for improvements to the Contracting Officer to use in negotiations with the offeror if necessary.
In accordance with FAR (3) the SBA PCR should also have the opportunity to review the small business subcontracting plan. Comments from the SBA are advisory.
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35. Small Business Subcontracting Plan Considerations
Contains 11 required elements? Realistic goals? Goals consistent with efficient contract performance? Steps to demonstrate good-faith effort identified?
In assessing the small business subcontracting plan for acceptability, the Contracting Officer, with the SBP’s input, will assess the 11 elements of the small business subcontracting plan to confirm the following:
Goals are realistic.
Goals are consistent with efficient contract performance.
The plan identifies steps to show a good-faith effort to maximize small business use.
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36. Activity 5.6: Assessing the Small Business Subcontracting Plan
Small business subcontracting plan required if:
Acquisition exceeds $700K ($1.5M for construction).
Offeror is NOT a small business.
Acquisition is NOT for personal services.
Work will be performed inside the United States and its outlying areas.
Subcontracting possibilities exist.
An offeror must submit a small business subcontracting plan if the acquisition exceeds $700,000, or $1.5 million for construction, has subcontracting possibilities, and is not (a) a small business concern, (b) for personal services, (c) for work performed outside the United States and its outlying areas (See FAR ). The SBP’s key responsibility with regard to small business subcontracting plans is to advise the Contracting Officer on whether an offeror’s small business subcontracting plan is acceptable.
In assessing the small business subcontracting plan for acceptability, the Contracting Officer, with the SBP’s input, will assess the 11 elements of the small business subcontracting plan to confirm the following:
Any goals are not unreasonably low.
Goals are consistent with efficient contract performance.
The plan identifies steps to show a good-faith effort is being made.
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37. Activity 5.6: Assessing the Small Business Subcontracting Plan (cont’d.)
Determine if the small business subcontracting plan is acceptable using the checklist. If it is not, make recommendations for making it acceptable.
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38. Activity 5.6 Key Points (1 of 3)
A small business subcontracting plan is required for negotiated and sealed bidding acquisitions over $700K (1.5M for
construction).
Subcontracting plans are rated acceptable or
unacceptable, and an award cannot be made if the rating
is unacceptable.
A subcontracting plan has required elements to make it acceptable.
An SPBCD is only required for certain Department of Defense (DoD) acquisitions or bundled contracts.
The SBPCD subcontracting dollars should be consistent with those in the subcontracting plan.
An SBPCD is assigned a rating and is part of the proposal.
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39. Activity 5.6 Key Points (2 of 3)
Subcontracting plans are required only from
other than small businesses, while SBPCDs
are required from all businesses.
Frequent mistakes include:
Math errors and inconsistent numbers
Not supporting numbers with specific information (like names of firms)
Not showing maximum effort to subcontract to small businesses
Not addressing all 11 elements
Not including separate goals and statements for option years
Not making affirmative statements of assurance
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40. Activity 5.6 Key Points (3 of 3)
The checklist allows you to assess:
The 11 required elements
The realism of the goals
Steps to demonstrate good-faith effort
Companies may submit commercial or DoD comprehensive plans to satisfy the small business subcontracting plan requirement.
Contracting Officers often rely on SBPs to review small business subcontracting plans.
Typically, they are reviewed first by the Contracting Officer, and then by the SBP, and finally by the PCR.
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41. Negotiation
SBPs may help develop negotiation objectives for the small business subcontracting plan.
In negotiated procurements, the SBP may be called on to help develop negotiation objectives related to the small business subcontracting plan.
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42. Negotiating Subcontracting Plan (FAR 19.705-4(c))
11 Elements
Good-faith effort Maximum practicable Cost Attain objectives
Minimize exposure
Administrative burden
Incentives
See FAR (a)(i)
FAR (c) provides the following guidance on negotiating small business subcontracting plans:
Determine whether the plan is acceptable based on the negotiation of each of the 11 elements of the plan (see 19.704).
Subcontracting goals should be set at a level such that what the parties reasonably expect can result from the offeror expending good faith efforts to use small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business subcontractors to the maximum practicable extent.
The Contracting Officer shall take particular care to ensure that the offeror has not submitted unreasonably low goals to minimize exposure to liquidated damages and to avoid the administrative burden of substantiating good-faith efforts.
Additionally, particular attention should be paid to the identification of steps that, if taken, would be considered a good-faith effort.
No goal should be negotiated upward if it is apparent that a higher goal will significantly increase the Government’s cost or seriously impede the attainment of acquisition objectives.
An incentive subcontracting clause (see  , Incentive Subcontracting Program) may be used when additional and unique contract effort, such as providing technical assistance, could significantly increase subcontract awards to small business, small disadvantaged business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, or women-owned small businesses concerns.
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43. Make It Contractually Binding
Small Business Subcontracting Plan
Small Business Participation Requirements
Enforceable
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Commitments
For contract award:
IAW FAR , the small business subcontracting plan becomes a material part of the contract incorporated by reference.
Small business participation requirements (commitments) should be incorporated into the contract to make them enforceable. There are three ways this can be accomplished:
Develop a Special Contract Requirements Clause delineating the small business requirements (commitments).
Incorporate the relevant portions of the SBPCD only as a contract attachment (recall that the proposal document should be redacted so that only the contractual small business participation requirements remain in the SBPCD).
Include the small business participation requirements (commitments) in the PWS/SOW and Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan.
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44. Post-Award Notification (FAR 19.705-6)
The Procuring Contracting Officer is responsible for:
1. Notifying the SBA of the award by sending a copy of the award document to the Area Director, Office of Government Contracting, in the SBA area office where the contract will be performed
2. Forwarding a copy of each commercial plan and any associated approvals to the Area Director, Office of Government Contracting, in the SBA area office where the contractor’s headquarters is located
3. Giving to the SBA procurement center representative (or, if a procurement center representative is not assigned, see (a)) a copy of:
a. Any small business subcontracting plan submitted in response to a sealed bid solicitation
b. The final negotiated small business subcontracting plan that was incorporated into a negotiated contract or contract modification
4. Forwarding a copy of each plan, or a determination that there is no requirement for a small business subcontracting plan, to the cognizant contract administration office
In accordance with FAR , after a contract or contract modification containing a small business subcontracting plan is awarded, the Contracting Officer who approved the plan is responsible for the following:
Notifying the SBA of the award by sending a copy of the award document to the Area Director, Office of Government Contracting, in the SBA area office where the contract will be performed
Forwarding a copy of each commercial plan and any associated approvals to the Area Director, Office of Government Contracting, in the SBA area office where the contractor’s headquarters is located
Giving to the SBA procurement center representative (or, if a procurement center representative is not assigned, see (a)) a copy of:
(1) Any small business subcontracting plan submitted in response to a sealed bid solicitation; and
(2) The final negotiated small business subcontracting plan that was incorporated into a negotiated contract or contract modification
Forwarding a copy of each plan or a determination that there is no requirement for a small business subcontracting plan to the cognizant contract administration office
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45. Lesson Summary
Evaluate small business participation and past performance.
Assess small business subcontracting plans.
Develop subcontracting requirements of the solicitation.
Terminal Learning Objective
During the Solicitation and Award phase of an acquisition, assist the acquisition team in clearly describing subcontracting requirements of the solicitation, evaluating small business participation and past performance, assessing small business subcontracting plans, and negotiating any subcontracting issues with offerors.
Enabling Learning Objectives
Review the solicitation to ensure appropriate subcontracting language, clauses, and evaluation criteria are incorporated.
Develop solicitation language, clauses, and evaluation criteria for a given acquisition.
Support the acquisition team in evaluating small business participation requirements during the source selection process and in assessing the small business subcontracting plan.
Assist the Contracting Officer with developing a negotiation objective for subcontracting with offerors.
During the lesson, students participated in implementing a subcontracting strategy during Solicitation and Award by:
Identifying the sections of the UCF with small business elements
Reviewing a solicitation
Evaluating SBPCDs
Evaluating past performance on small business subcontracting
Assessing a small business subcontracting plan
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46. Identify one key insight from this lesson.
Action Planning
Identify one key insight from this lesson.
Identify one thing you will do differently on the job.
Discuss with your accountability partner.
It is important to apply new sills immediately upon returning to your job. Your ultimate goal is to operate within the acquisition and contracting process to maximize opportunities for small business to execute the agency’s mission to ultimately support the warfighter.
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