Small Business Goals
The Small Business Administration (SBA) strongly supports the participation of small business concerns in the GSA Schedules Program. SBA policy allows agencies to include in their procurement base and goals, the dollar value of orders expected to be placed against GSA Schedule contracts. Actual orders placed against Schedule contracts may be reported as accomplishments and credited toward ordering activities' small business goals.
Schedule contractors' catalogs/pricelists, GSA Advantage!®, and GSA eLibrary (formerly Schedules e-Library) contain information on a broad array of supplies (products) and services offered by small business concerns. This information should be used as a tool to assist agencies in providing the maximum practicable opportunities for small business concerns, in order to meet or exceed established small business goals. The information should also be used as a tool to assist in identifying small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, women-owned small business, and small disadvantaged business Schedule contractors when making a best value determination.
In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-5(a), ordering activities should rely on the small business representations made by Schedule contractors at the contract level.
Reminder: For orders exceeding the micro-purchase threshold, ordering activities should give preference to the items of small business concerns when those items satisfy agency requirements at the same delivered prices as items offered by other than small business concerns.
Last Reviewed 12/23/2008