The Position and Problems of Small Business in Procurements Financed by the Agency for International Development, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Goverment Procurement of ... , 95-1, Pursuant to H. Res. 66 ... , May 15, July 10 and 31, 1969 |
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A.I.D. financing ADDABBO Administration Agency for International AID financing AID funds AID program AID Regulation AID Small Business AID-financed procurement AID's American approval award bidder borrower/grantee BROYHILL buyer cargo Certificate Chairman Champon Colombia commercial commission commodity companies competitive contract copy CORMAN cost D.C. DEAR DOBBS documents eligible engines equipment export foreign importers freight HANNAH House Small Business Import Program industry International Development invoice JOE L KUNZE LELAND LELAND STANFORD letter of commitment letter of credit loan manufacturers ment modity O'LEARY ORGANIZED overseas Pakistan percent performance bonds PORTNOW procedures purchases quotation received Representatives request requirements ROBINSON RUDIS Saigon set-aside shipment ships Small Business Administration Small Business Circulars Small Business Committee small business firms specifications Subcommittee submitted Taiwan textile textile machinery tion trade transactions U.S. dollars U.S. Flag U.S. Government U.S. suppliers United vessels Vietnam waiver Washington
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Page 400 - ... (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 62 - ... 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 335 - 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 236 - States to encourage the efforts of other free nations to increase the flow of international trade, to foster private initiative and competition, to discourage monopolistic practices...
Page 77 - 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 236 - ... 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 236 - 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 244 - BUSINESS. — (a) Insofar as practicable and to the maximum extent consistent with the accomplishment of the purposes of this Act, the President shall assist American small business to participate equitably in the furnishing of commodities...
Page 402 - Emergency procurement requires the prior written approval of the US AID. (4) Special situations, (i) Procurement in special situations, if AID/W has determined that it would be impracticable...