Military Procurement -- 1955, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ... 84-1 on ... April 20, 21, 22, 25; May 4 and 5, 1955

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Page 57 - UTILIZATION OF SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS (a) 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. (b) The Contractor agrees to accomplish the maximum amount of subcontracting to small business concerns that the Contractor finds to be consistent with the efficient...
Page 276 - 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 340 - Synopsis of US Government Proposed Procurement, Sales, and Contract Awards," in accordance with the requirements of §§ 1-1.1003 and 1-1.1004.
Page 201 - Eighth annual report of the activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production with material on mobilization from departments and agencies.
Page 129 - ... 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 18 - ... determined to be necessary in the public interest during the period of a national emergency declared by the President or by the Congress...
Page 109 - ... 2. Data assembled on essential mobilization suppliers by the industrial mobilization planning of these agencies shall be used in planning current procurement. The policy of using contractors and facilities essential to the mobilization base is considered to be in the best interest of the Government. Suppliers that are deemed to be part of the mobilization base normally will be invited to participate in appropriate current procurement.
Page 342 - It is the policy of the Commission to place with small business concerns a fair proportion of the total of supplies and services procured by contract for the Commission. For this purpose a small business concern is any concern which, including its affiliates, employs in the aggregate fewer than 500 persons.
Page 299 - A production or research and development pool is a group of concerns (1) which have associated together for the purpose of obtaining and performing jointly, or in conjunction with each other, contracts for supplies or services, or for research and development, for defense use...
Page 129 - Act — (1) by 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...

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