INCREASE IN STANDARD FORM 99 REPORTING THRESHOLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89G00643R000900170005-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 27, 1987
• Content Type: LETTER

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General Services Administration
Office of Acquisition Policy
Washington, DC 20405
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CIVILIAN AGENCY ACQUISITION COUNCIL LETTER NO. 87-5
TO: CIVILIAN AGENCIES, OTHER THAN NASA
SUBJECT: Increase in Standard Form 99 reporting threshold
On July 24, 1987, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council (CAAC)
and the Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council requested the
Department of Labor (DOL) to increase the Standard Form (SF) 99,
Notice of Award of Contract, reporting threshold from $10,000 to
$25,000. On September 23, 1987, the DOL waived the $10,000 SF 99
reporting threshold in 29 CFR 4.8, thereby permitting a $25,000
threshold to be implemented in the Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR). The $25,000 threshold is included in the proposed draft
of FAR 22.10 currently under consideration by the Civilian and
Defense Councils.
This CAAC letter provides a copy of the DOL waiver letter of
September 23, 1987. Please ensure that this information is
distributed to your contracting offices for their immediate use
pending issuance of the FAR 22.10 coverage presently being
considered by the Councils.
`,~ HARRY S V KI
Acting Chairman
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Civilian Agency Acquisition Council
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U.S. Department of Labor
SEP 2 3 1987
Employment Standards Administration
Wage and Hour Division
Washington, D.C. 20210
Mr. Lawrence J. Rizzi
Chairman
Civilian Agency Acquisition Council
Office of Acquisition Policy
General Services Administration
Washington, D, C. 20405
This is in response to your letter of July 24, regarding Standard
Form (SF) 99, Notice of Award of Contract.
As you indicated in your letter, a major goal of the 1983
revisions to the Service Contract Act (SCA) regulations was to
minimize administrative and paperwork burdens for contracting
agencies wherever possible, consistent with the effective
administration of the statute and without sacrificing data needed
by the Wage and Hour Division. Previously, 29 CFR 4.8 provided
for contracting agencies to submit SF-99's for every contract
awarded that was subject to the SCA (i.e., over $2,500, based on
the statutory threshold for including wage determinations in
contracts). These forms were used in planning and scheduling
enforcement activities under SCA. However, the Wage and Hour
Division subsequently arranged with the Federal Procurement Data
Center (FPDC) for FPDC to provide quarterly reports from its
database showing contract award data sorted according to the
geographic jurisdictions of Wage and Hour Division area offices.
Contrary to the information contained in your letter, contracting
agencies do not submit copies of the SF-279, Individual Contract
Action Report, to the Wage and Hour Division. Rather, the SCA
regulations were revised at 29 CFR 4.8 to provide that agencies
which reported contract awards to FPDC via the SF-279 need no
longer submit SF-99's to the Wage and Hour Division, but the SF-
99 reporting requirement continued in effect for contracts over
$10,000 for those agencies that did not report to FPDC (unless
such agencies made other arrangements for automated reporting of
contract awards) .
As a result of the increase from $10,000 to $25,000 in the
threshold for reporting contract awards to FPDC via the SF-279,
we no longer receive useful data on contract actions under
$25,000, because the contracting agencies are not now, as a
general matter, submitting the SF-99's required by 29 CFR 4 .8 .
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