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The Commerce Business Daily (CBD) lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information. Each edition contains approximately 500-1,000 notices. Each notice appears in the CBD only once.

All Federal procurement offices were required to announce proposed procurement actions over $25,000 and contract awards over $25,000, that are likely to result in the award of any subcontracts, in the CBD.

General Exceptions: The CBD usually does not list procurement notices for; (1) classified services or supplies, (2) services or supplies that are required immediately due to an unusual or compelling emergency, (3) services or supplies that are required from specified sources as a result of the terms of an international agreement or treaty, (4) services or supplies where U.S. law specifies a specific source or requires that the procurement be made by another federal agency, (5) certain utility services where only one source is available, (6) a contract action where an order is placed under a requirements contract, (7) a contract action that would result from the acceptance of a proposal under the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, (8) a contract action that would disclose or jeopardize innovative research, (9) perishable supplies, (10) resale of brand name commercial items, (11) supplies or services obtained under the terms of an existing contract that was previously announced in the CBD, (12) services and supplies obtained by the Department of Defense which will be performed or made outside the U.S., its possessions, Puerto Rico, and only local sources will be solicited, and (13) contract actions made through FACNET that meet acquisition threshold regulations.

If you wish to review previous editions of the CBD contact your local public library for assistance. Copies of the CBD are maintained in over 700 Federal Depository Libraries located throughout the United States.

NOTE: CBDNet previously allowed you to search both active and archived databases. As of January 2, 2002, the active notices database is no longer available. The Archive database begins with December 2, 1996 and continues through January 2, 2002.

In accordance with the recent changes in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) designating Federal Business Opportunities as the single point of universal electronic public access on the Internet for government-wide Federal procurement opportunities that exceed $25,000, CBDNet ceased to accept notices after midnight, January 1, 2002. Notices received on GPO's CBD system by midnight, January 1, and manuscripts received by 3:00 p.m. on January 2, are included in the final GPO print version of the CBD that was issued on January 4, 2002.

Any notices validated for inclusion in the January 4 printed issue of CBD have been transferred into the archive database so the active database was shut down. The archive database will continue to be available on CBDNet as part of the Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection. As the manager of this collection, the Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Printing Office has a commitment to maintaining permanent public access for the materials included in the collection.

To read the full text of the Special Notice from the Department of Commerce, go to Federal Business Opportunities to replace the Commerce Business Daily.

CBDNet was provided through an alliance of the United States Department of Commerce and the United States Government Printing Office.