ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002200150016-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 2, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2006/08/09: CIA-RDP83M00914R002200150016-9
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
OFFICE OF FEDERAL
PROCUREMENT POLICY
APR 2 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR TH I DS OF DEP&RT4ENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: DO D E. SOWLE
SUBJECT: Assistance to Small Business
Recent hearings of the Senate Small Business Committee on S. 1947 focused
attention on the question of timely publication of proposed procurements in the
Commerce Business Daily (CBD). The Committee was also concerned about the
time allowed to small business concerns to prepare and submit bids ("bidding
time").
Publication in the CBD is an important means by which small business learns of,
and thus is able to compete for, Federal procurement. It is essential, therefore,
that publication in the CBD be made at the earliest possible time, consistent with
orderly procurement processes. In this regard, section 8(e) of the Small Business
Act provides for publication in the CBD "immediately after the necessity for the
procurement is established." To the extent that current procurement regulations
do not appear to reflect the necessity and importance of prompt publication, we
will shortly request that they be revised and improved.
It is also important, as noted by the Committee, to give small concerns the benefit
of the longest possible bidding time. Regulations provide that, as a general rule,
bidding time shall not be less than thirty calendar days. We again share the
Committee's concern and ask that you make every possible effort, consistent with
the needs of the Government, to meet the needs of small concerns by allowing in
your solicitations a minimum of 30 days bidding time.
Prompt publication in the CBD and full bidding periods will, we believe, assist
small concerns in receiving their fair share of Federal Government contracts.