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What you need to know about changes to the National Defense Authorization Act

January 13, 2015 By ei2admin

President Obama recently signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2015, which provides new provisions that impact women-owned businesses. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) also proposed to amend regulations implementing provisions of the NDAA Act that will impact small business contractors.

Bottom line: If you’re a women-owned small business or a small business doing business with the government, the NDAA includes a number of provisions that impact you.

Highlights of the proposed revisions to the NDAA include:

  1. Women-Owned Small Business Contracting Program:  Section 825 of the NDAA authorizes federal agencies to award sole-source contracts to women-owned small businesses eligible for SBA’s Women-Owned Small Business Contracting Program, providing parity in the federal contracting marketplace to other small business categories.  For more on the proposed rules, see SBA’s recent press release.
  2. Subcontracting:  Section 1651 changes the way that performance is calculated on small and socioeconomic set-aside contracts, and authorizes similarly situated subcontractors to count towards the performance requirements. 
  3. Joint Ventures:  Section 1651 makes the performance requirements consistent, regardless of whether or not a small business chooses to joint venture or perform in a prime or subcontractor relationship.
  4. Non-Manufacturer Rule:  Section 1651 changes SBA’s non-manufacturer rule and affiliation rules, including the elimination of waiver requests for procurements below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) of $150,000.  The non-manufacturer rule allows a small business to offer a product, that it did not manufacture, under a small business set-aside if SBA has offered a waiver.  SBA defines affiliation as the ability to control. When the ability to control exists, even if it is not exercised, affiliation exists.

For updates on these proposed changes, visit the SBA’s website at www.sba.gov.

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: joint venture, NDAA, nonmanufacturer rule, small business, subcontracting, woman owned business, wosb

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