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PART III-PRIVATE INDUSTRY TESTIMONY-Continued

KuBar, Inc. __ .

Litton Industries, Inc..

Lockheed Aircraft Corp

Manhattan Fruit Contracting Co--

Marquardt Corp.

Miniature Precision Bearings, Inc..

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National Tool, Die & Precision Machining Association..

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New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc..

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Pulmosan Safety Equipment Corp..

Radio Corp. of America..

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Thiokol Chemical Corp.

Representative James C. Cleveland (Republican, New Hampshire)

Small Business Administration, Los Angeles regional office..

Small Business Administration, Utah regional office...

Smaller Business Association of New England, Inc..

Diamond Antenna & Microwave Corp..

Horn Packaging & Paper Co.

Littleton Research & Engineering Corp..
Omega Laboratories, Inc.

Social Dynamics, Inc..

Space Age Electronics.

United Engineers, Inc..

Valpey Crystal Corp-

Strategic Industries Association_

Del Mar Engineering Laboratories..
Sierracin Corp--

Swedlow, Inc.

Task Corp

Weber Office Supply Co.

Western Electronic Manufacturers Association

John Fluke Manufacturing Co..

Physio-Control Corp----

Western States Meat Packers Association, Inc.

Durham Meat Co__.

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Various procurement practices detrimental to small business (SBANE)_

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Various procurement practices detrimental to small business (SIA).

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1. Paper profusion problem..

2. Procurement of privately developed items_

3. Purposeful infringement of private patents.

PART V(a)-SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION TESTIMONY.

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4. Claims of subcontractors against Government

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PART V(b)-SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION'S WRITTEN VIEWS REGARD

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Smaller Business Association of New England, Inc.............

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PART V(b)-SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION'S WRITTEN VIEWS-Con.
Space Age Electronics..

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Task Corp...

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Western States Meat Packers Association, Inc.

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PART VI-PRIVATE INDUSTRY TESTIMONY (continued).

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Marquardt Corp..

Ogden Air Materiel Area..

Small Business Administration, Utah regional office.

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Appendix A-Department of Defense ASPR revision reassigning SBA procurement center representatives_

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Appendix B-Department of Defense reasons for small business exclusion in fiscal years 1960-63..--

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Appendix C-Department of Defense fiscal year 1968 interim and final goals...

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Appendix D-Department of Defense fiscal year 1966 interim and final goals...

Appendix E-Department of Defense procurements from small and other business firms, fiscal year 1968..

Appendix F-Department of the Army charts reflecting the position of small business in Army procurements during fiscal years 1965 and 1966__ Appendix G-Department of the Army tables of defense prime contract awards to business firms, small business firms, and set-asides for small business firms during first 9 months of fiscal year 1967 and in fiscal year 1967_

Appendix H-Department of the Army, additional case histories in response to question 5 of the subcommittee's invitation to testify.

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Appendix I-Department of the Army, additional case histories in response
to question 7 of the subcommittee's invitation to testify.......
Appendix J-National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards to
small business, fiscal year 1968...

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Appendix K-National Aeronautics and Space Administration procurement regulation directive regarding assignment of SBA representatives to NASA procurement centers.

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Appendix L-General Services Administration awards to small business in
fiscal year 1968___

Appendix M-Defense Supply Agency, National Production Authority
Regulation No. 2....

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Appendix N-Defense Supply Agency list of items for which additional sources of supply are needed

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Appendix O-Private industry-Commcraft-List of attendees at bidders conferences.

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Appendix P-Private industry-Commcraft-Résumé of Robert J.
Campbell..

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Appendix Q-Private industry-Commcraft-Additional miscellaneous information submitted by the Air Force...

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Appendix R-Private industry-Manhattan Fruit Contracting Co.Correspondence and related documents regarding fruit and produce procurements..

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Appendix S-Department of the Air Force information furnished in response to subcommittee requests at Ogden, Utah..

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THE POSITION OF SMALL BUSINESS
IN GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT

Part I.-GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TESTIFYING

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1967

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT

AND ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION

OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS

Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. James C. Corman presiding.

Present: Representatives Corman, Broyhill, and Burton.

Also present: Representatives Moore and Morton of the full committee; Henry A. Robinson, subcommittee counsel; Myrtle Ruth Foutch, clerk; and John J. Williams, minority counsel.

Mr. CORMAN. Good morning.

The subcommittee will please come to order.

Our colleague, Chairman Multer, will be delayed in being here today due to other legislative duties; namely conducting hearings of the House Banking and Currency Committee, of which he is acting chairman. Congressman Multer asked me to open these procurement hearings promptly on schedule in order that witnesses representing the various Federal departments and agencies will not have to rearrange their schedules.

I would like to read Mr. Multer's opening statement.

Today, the Subcommittee on Government Procurement and Economic Concentration of the House Small Business Committee opens its hearings to review the small business policies, practices, and programs of the military and major civilian procurement agencies of the Government.

In annoucning these hearings, the chairman of the full committee, Representative Joe L. Evins, pointed out that the Government's requirements for goods and services continue to increase. He stated that there is therefore a need for this subcommittee to determine whether existing legislation and regulations and their implementation by procurement and contract administration officials encourage small business and enable small business to participate equitably in Government procurement.

I have here a chart prepared by the subcommittee staff which illustrates the extent to which Government purchases of goods and services have mounted in the 4-year period reviewed in these hearings. Without objection it will be inserted in the record of the hearings at this point as subcommittee chart A-II.

(The chart referred to follows:)

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Mr. CORMAN (continuing with the opening statement). The upper portion of the chart shows that military prime contract awards to all business firms for work in the United States rose from $26.9 billion in fiscal 1964 to $40.6 billion in fiscal 1967. The lower portion shows that prime contract awards by civilian agencies increased from $6.3 billion in 1964 to $7.5 billion in 1967.

We can see in this chart, drawn to scale, the relative size and growth of procurements in this period by those Federal departments

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