Action brief · USC-01

Reserve contracts and orders for eligible small businesses and use program-specific sole-source routes

Objective

Bring a prototype into use

Family / instrument

Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Small-business contracting

Statute

Authority holder

Head of the procuring agency or authorized contracting officer; SBA holds the eligibility and other functions assigned to it

Executor · routing lead

Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative

Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)

Apply the particular route’s eligibility, certification, competition, price, threshold, and subcontracting requirements; these are not interchangeable exceptions.

8(a) awards require the SBA arrangement and eligible participant contemplated by §637(a). Women-owned, HUBZone, and service-disabled-veteran routes have their own statutory criteria.

All requirements & limits

Recorded funding condition (excerpt)

Lawfully available procurement or service funds; the cited preference and reservation provisions are not appropriations.

All funding conditions

What this does not authorize / limits

Does not give DoD the SBA’s loan, certification, or business-development powers.

A government-wide goal is not an entitlement to a contract, and no general sole-source authority follows merely from being a small business.

Legal basisSources linked

RequirementsGates recorded

Public fundingRules recorded

Assigned rolesRoles recorded

EngagementProgram unverified

Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.

Actor sources

Exclusion of particular source or restriction of solicitation to small business concerns; Awards or contracts; Additional powers; HUBZone program; Procurement program for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans — statutory holder and execution conditions

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