Canceled
by PIC 04-05
03-10
Procurement
Information Circular
April 3, 2003
SET-ASIDES UNDER THE SMALL BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
PURPOSE: To institute or continue small business set-asides under the Small
Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program.
BACKGROUND:
The Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program requires NASA
to use full and open competition for all solicitations in each of four
designated industry groups (DIGs) if the anticipated award value exceeds the
emerging small business (ESB) reserve amount. The DIGs are: construction;
A&E services; refuse systems and related services; and east coast and west
coast non-nuclear ship repair. The ESB reserve amount is $50,000 for A&E
services and $25,000 for the other DIGs. Small business set-asides must be
reinstated for solicitations above the ESB reserve amount when an annual Agency
review shows that small businesses have not received -
1. Forty percent
of dollar awards in a DIG;
2. Thirty five
percent of dollar awards for any individual NAICS code within the A&E NAICS
subsector even if overall goal attainment in the subsector is 40 percent; or
3. Thirty five
percent of dollar awards for any individual NAICS code within the construction
NAICS subsectors even if overall goal attainment in the subsectors is 40
percent.
Set-asides apply
only at those centers that have not met the applicable percentages, and the
full and open competition requirement is resumed once the annual Agency review
determines that the percentages have been achieved.
GUIDANCE: The annual review for the period ending
September 30, 2002, indicated that the 40 percent goal was not achieved in the
Refuse Systems and Related Services DIG. The 35 percent small business
participation individual goal was not achieved for NAICS Code 562111 at Goddard
Space Flight Center (GSFC), Johnson Space Center (JSC) or Glenn Research Center
(GRC). Accordingly, GSFC, JSC and GRC must utilize small business set asides
for solicitations expected to exceed the ESB reserve amount for acquisitions
under this NAICS. The contract file
must contain written justification with Procurement Officer concurrence, if the
acquisitions cannot be set aside as required.
The 40 percent
goal was not achieved for awards in the A&E Services DIG. The 35 percent small business participation
individual goal was not achieved for NAICS code 541310 at Dryden Flight
Research Center (DFRC), Kennedy Space Center (KSC), or Langley Research Center
(LaRC). Additionally 35 percent small business participation individual goal
was not achieved for NAICS code 541330 at Ames Research Center (ARC), GSFC,
JSC, LaRC or Stennis Space Center (SSC).
Accordingly, the referenced Centers must utilize small business
set-asides for solicitations expected to exceed the ESB reserve amount for
acquisitions under the respective NAICS Codes specified above. The contract file must contain written
justification with Procurement Officer concurrence, if the acquisitions cannot
be set aside as required.
Please note that
these set-aside requirements do not apply to acquisitions reserved for emerging
small businesses, 8(a) awards, or sole source awards.
CANCELLATION: This PIC supersedes PIC 02-05,
dated February 20, 2002.
EFFECTIVE
DATE: This PIC is
effective as dated, and automatically expires January 31, 2004, unless
extended, superseded or canceled.
HEADQUARTERS
CONTACT: Yolande
Harden, Code HK, (202) 358-1279, yharden@nasa.gov.
R. Scott Thompson,
Director,
Contract Management Division