Small-business Participation in Government Procurement, 1958: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on Small-business Policies and Programs of Government Agencies. July 23 and 24, 1958 |
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action activities agencies Air Force Air Force Base Air Materiel Command aircraft Army ASKINS ASPR Assistant Secretary awards to small BANTZ bidders Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Ordnance business firms Business Program business specialists Capt Chairman Chief of Naval Civil Aeronautics Administration Committee on Small companies contract awards contracting officer curement Department of Defense DERRY dollars efforts EXHIBIT facilities fiscal year 1958 FLOETE Government procurement hangar hearings HIGGINS increase industry lists MCINARNAY ment million missile MULARI Naval Material negotiated ness operating opportunity participation percentage personnel prime contractors problems procedures Procurement Office production pools PYLE request requirements research and development Senator BIBLE Senator SMATHERS set-aside Small Business Act Small Business Administration small business concerns small firms small-business adviser small-business firms small-business program small-business specialists specifications staff statement study group STULTS subcontracting program Supply task force technical tion Washington
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Page 173 - ... causing to be made available to suppliers in the United States, and particularly to small independent enterprises, information, as far in advance as possible, with respect to purchases proposed to be financed...
Page 78 - The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of...
Page 78 - It Is the policy of the Government as declared by the Congress that a fair proportion of the purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small business concerns.
Page 141 - Government should aid. counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
Page 174 - ... States, and particularly to small independent enterprises, information, as far in advance as possible, with respect to purchases proposed to be financed with...
Page 66 - Generally, a small business concern for the purpose of Government procurement is a concern that (1) is not dominant in its field of operation and, with its affiliates, employs fewer than 500 employees, or (2) is certified as a small business concern by Small Business Administration.
Page 70 - Director, Engineering Division, Bureau of Yards and Docks, Department of the Navy, Washington 25, DC...
Page 68 - If small business concerns cannot be given an opportunity to compete because adequate specifications or drawings are not available, unless there are sufficient and valid reasons to the contrary, initiate action, in writing, with appropriate technical and contracting personnel to ensure that necessary specifications or drawings for the current or future procurements, as appropriate, are available.
Page 65 - NASA to place a fair proportion of its total purchases and contracts for supplies and services with small business concerns, and to afford small business concerns an equitable opportunity to compete for contract awards.
Page 162 - Administration, that it is in the interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation's full productive capacity, in the interest of war or national defense programs, or in the interest of assuring that a fair proportion of Government procurement is placed with small business concerns.