CANCELLED
BY PIC 05-06
04-05
Procurement Information Circular
March 1, 2004
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 the dollar awards in a DIG;
2. Thirty five
percent of the 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, 2003, 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).
The 35 percent
small business participation individual goal was not achieved for the
construction NAICS Code 238290 at the Glenn Research Center (GRC).
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 541330 at Ames Research Center
(ARC), Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Johnson Space Center (JSC), 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 03-10,
dated April 3, 2003.
EFFECTIVE
DATE: This PIC is effective as dated, and
automatically expires January 31, 2005, unless extended, superseded or
canceled.
HEADQUARTERS
CONTACT: Yolande Harden, Code HK, (202) 358-1279, yharden@nasa.gov.
James A.
Balinskas,
Director,
Contract Management Division