Small Business Administration's 8(a) Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority Enterprise, and General Small Business Problems of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C., May 21, June 4 and 10, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 214 pages |
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ABRILZ action ADDABBO advance payments agencies Apoca Industries applicant assistance awarded BILLY LEE EVANS business development expense business plan Capital Ownership Development Central Office Chairman committee companies competitive bid concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman construction contract support contractors criteria DAUB directive disadvantaged business disadvantaged firms District dollars economically disadvantaged effect eligible employees enterprise established EVANS Federal procurement fiscal Fixed Program Participation FORDICE funds goals going Government graduation hearing HILER implementation Kirk Fordice LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ment MICHAEL CARDENAS million minority business minority firms Minority Small Business MITCHELL MONTANO negotiated November 30 OAO Corporation operating opportunity percent personnel problems procedures Program Participation Term proposed Public Law question recommendations regional administrator regulations SBA FORM SBA's SBIC section 8(a set-aside Small Business Act Small Business Administration specific standards subcommittee subcontract submit termination testimony Thank tion WOERNER
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Page 24 - ... a lien in favor of the Government, paramount to all other liens, upon the supplies...
Page 17 - Program') which shall provide assistance exclusively for small business concerns eligible to receive contracts pursuant to section 8(a) of this Act.
Page 130 - Annual receipts" means the gross income (less returns and allowances, sales of fixed assets, and interaffiliate transactions) of a concern (and its domestic and foreign affiliates) from sales of products and services, interest, rents, fees, commissions, and/or from whatever other source derived, as entered on its regular books of account for its most recently completed fiscal year (whether on a cash, accrual, completed contracts, percentage of completion, or other acceptable accounting basis) and,...
Page 53 - SBA will emphasize maximum use of conventional governmental and private resources in performing such contracts. (B) In negotiating a Fixed Program Participation Term for concerns currently in the program, SBA will consider the previous Advance Payments and Business Development Expense received by the concern. An SBA determination that such Advance Payments and Business Development Expense support has failed to progressively decrease in importance during its previous participation in the program will...
Page 54 - Fixed Program Participation Term granted herein. (8) Upon the conclusion of the Fixed Program Participation Term granted and/or extended herein, a concern will cease to be a program participant. This cessation of program participation shall occur without the necessity of any additional action by SBA; also it shall not give rise to any rights, claims or prerogatives on behalf of the concern. Cessation of program participation at the conclusion of the Fixed Program Participation Term shall not be subject...
Page 78 - Americans, and other minorities, or any other individual found to be disadvantaged by the Administration pursuant to section 8(a) of the Small Business Act.
Page 53 - ... concern. An SBA determination that such Advance Payments and Business Development Expense support has failed to progressively decrease in importance during its previous participation in the program will be a factor toward limiting the Fixed Program Participation Term and the conditions thereof.
Page 53 - SBA will consider the previous rate at which the concern has decreased its reliance upon program support, and correspondingly increased its reliance upon conventional governmental and private contract business. An SBA determination that the concern has failed to appreciably improve its rate of business reliance in this manner will be a factor toward limiting the Fixed Program Participation Term and the conditions thereof.
Page 52 - The number and dollar amount and the progressively increasing importance of contract support, other than section 8(a) contract support, that it is anticipated will be necessary to achieve competitiveness. SBA will emphasize business plans having greater reliance on this nonsection 8(a) contract support to reach competitiveness.
Page 54 - Term. (1) In addition to Program Completion and Program Termination, set forth in paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section, every program participant shall be subject to a Fixed Program Participation Term. A Fixed Program Participation Term will establish the ultimate time period during which a concern may remain in the program and the conditions thereof, regardless of whether competitiveness is reached or Program Completion action is effected. Except as noted in this section, a concern may not be...