FAR Facts

FUN with the FAR S7 Ep. 13

Did ya know . . . ? The amount of damages attributable to the contractor’s failure to comply with its proposed small business subcontracting goals is the total amount equal to the actual dollar amount by which the contractor failed to achieve each subcontracting goal....

FUN with the FAR S7 Ep. 13

Did ya know . . . ? The Small Business Administration has sole jurisdiction to hear small business size status protests. FAR 19.302. Interested in more FAR OUT Facts? Sign up for PCI’s bi-weekly FUN with the FAR course and make the FAR FUN! Learn without leaving the...

FUN with the FAR S7 Ep. 13

Did ya know . . . ? Small business concerns performing work under a small business set-aside contract are subject to limitations on subcontracting to other than small business concerns (i.e., for services, the offeror agrees that it will not pay more than 50 percent...

FUN with the FAR S7 Ep. 13

Did ya know . . . ? For “long-term contracts”, a contractor that represented itself as small must re-represent its size status prior to beginning the sixth year of the contract. See FAR 19.301-2(b) for other events that trigger re-representation. Interested in more...

FUN with the FAR S7 Ep. 13

Did ya know . . . ? For purposes of small business determinations, “number of employees” means the average employment, including the employment of a concern’s domestic and foreign affiliates, based on the number of persons employed on a full, part-time, temporary, or...