Action brief · USC-04

Lend or sell replenishment parts for replication and fund qualifying small-business source testing

Objective

Bring a prototype into use

Family / instrument

Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Alternative-source development

Statute

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense for replenishment-part programs; head of the procuring agency for qualification testing

Executor · routing lead

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

Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)

Parts under §3773 support later offers for the same or like parts; national-security and inventory restrictions remain applicable.

For government-paid testing under §3243(d), fewer than two actual manufacturers or their products must be available to compete; the small business or its product must meet the specified standards and reasonably be expected to compete.

All requirements & limits

Recorded funding condition (excerpt)

Lawfully available source-development and procurement funds; no tested company eligibility, current program funding, or accepted qualification verified.

All funding conditions

What this does not authorize / limits

Borrowing a part does not itself convey third-party intellectual-property rights or guarantee a later award.

P.L. 119-60 §812(a)(6) removed the former cost-savings-amortization finding: do not carry that repealed prerequisite into the current route.

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

Domestic business concerns: programs for replenishment parts; Encouragement of new competitors: qualification requirement — statutory holder and execution conditions

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