The Position and Problems of Small Business in Procurements Financed by the Agency for International Development: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 66 ...Reviews AID procurement rules and regulations to determine whether they increase U.S. small business opportunities to sell products and services abroad. |
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A.I.D. financing ADDABBO Administration Agency for International agent AID financed AID funds AID program AID Regulation AID Small Business AID-financed procurement AID's award borrower/grantee buyer cargo Certificate Chairman Champon Colombia commercial commission commodity companies competitive Congress contract copy CORMAN cost D.C. DEAR DOBBS documents eligible engines equipment export foreign importers freight Freon glow starters HANNAH HEDEN House Small Business Import Program industry International Development KUNZE letter of commitment letter of credit loan ment O'LEARY overseas Pakistan payment percent performance bonds PORTNOW procedures purchases quotation received Representatives request requirements ROBINSON RUDIS Saigon set-aside shipment ships Small Business Administration Small Business Circular Small Business Committee small business firms specifications statement Subcommittee submitted Taiwan textile machinery tion trade transactions U.S. bank U.S. dollars U.S. Flag U.S. Government U.S. suppliers United vessels Vietnam waiver Washington water meter
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Page 361 - ... (b) All bids shall be publicly opened at the time and place stated in the advertisement. Award shall be made with reasonable promptness by written notice to that responsible bidder whose bid, conforming to the invitation for bids, will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered...
Page 4 - 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 small...
Page 56 - ... the appropriate agency or agencies shall take such steps as may be necessary and practicable to assure that at least 50 per centum of the gross tonnage of such equipment, materials, or commodities...
Page 71 - SEC. 901." and by adding at the end of the section the following new subsection : "(b) whenever the United States shall procure, contract for, or otherwise obtain for its own account, or shall furnish to or for the account of any foreign nation without provision for reimbursement, any equipment, materials, or commodities...
Page 226 - ... improve the technical efficiency of their industry, agriculture, and commerce, and to strengthen free labor unions; and to encourage the contribution of United States enterprise toward economic strength of less developed friendly countries, through private trade and investment abroad, private participation in programs carried out under this Act (including the use of private trade channels to the maximum extent practicable in carrying out such programs), and exchange of ideas and technical information...
Page 226 - Act or other authority to secure compliance therewith and to assist United States citizens in obtaining just compensation for losses sustained by them or payments exacted from them as a result of measures taken or imposed by any country or area thereof in violation of any such treaty; (5) to the maximum extent practicable carry out programs of assistance through private channels...
Page 325 - 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 proposed to be financed with such funds...
Page 401 - Act shall be used for the purchase in bulk of any commodities at prices higher than the market price prevailing in the United States at the time of purchase, adjusted for differences in the cost of transportation to destination, quality, and terms of payment.
Page 230 - Administration and the contracting procurement or disposal agency (1) to be in the interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation's full productive capacity, (2) to be in the interest of war or national defense programs, (3) to be in the interest of assuring that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the Government...
Page 71 - ... take such steps as may be necessary and practicable to assure that at least 50 per centum of the gross tonnage of such equipment, materials, or commodities (computed separately for dry bulk carriers, dry cargo liners, and tankers) , which may be transported on ocean vessels shall be transported on privately owned United States-flag commercial vessels, to the extent such vessels are available at fair and reasonable rates...