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TITLE VIII--ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED MATTERS

P. L. 108-375

House Conference Report 108-767

SEC. 843. EXTENSION OF TEST PROGRAM FOR NEGOTIATION OF COMPREHENSIVE SMALL BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING PLANS.

Section 834(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 101– 189; 15 U.S.C. 637 note) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2005’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2010’’.

The Senate amendment contained a provision (sec. 823) that would extend for five years the test program for negotiation of comprehensive small business subcontracting plans established by section 834 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. (Public law 101-189).  Under the test program, prime contractors may submit a plan designed to provide the maximum subcontracting opportunity for small, disadvantaged, and women-owned small business concerns that covers all anticipated contracts on a plant, division, or corporate basis, rather than for each Federal contract and subcontract of more than $500,000 (or $1.0 million in the caser of construction contracts) awarded as required under section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (Public Law 85-536, as amended).

The House bill contained no similar provision. 

The House recedes.