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- Subject: NASA exceeds small disadvantaged business contracting goal [Release 92-231] (Forwarded)
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:43:29 GMT
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- Donald L. Savage
- Headquarters, Washington, D.C. December 23, 1992
- (Phone: 202/358-1600)
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- RELEASE: 92-231
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- NASA EXCEEDS SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS CONTRACTING GOAL
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- NASA Administrator Dan Goldin today announced that the
- agency has exceeded its 1992 goal of awarding 6.7 percent of
- the total value of the agency's prime and subcontracts to
- small disadvantaged businesses.
-
- Over $865 million was awarded to minority organizations,
- representing 7.2 percent of the total $12 billion awarded
- during the last fiscal year. In 1990, NASA developed a plan
- to meet a goal of awarding 8 percent of the total to small
- disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) by the end of fiscal year
- 1994.
-
- "This represents a major step forward to meeting and
- hopefully, exceeding our 1994 goal in 1993," said Goldin.
- "We are continuing the momentum by recently setting aside
- appropriate procurements for SDBs, including women-owned
- firms, and we are developing an awards program for technical
- small businesses.
-
- "I have directed top NASA officials to take steps to
- substantively increase SDB subcontracting in our top 100
- contracts. Also, I have made reaching our 8 percent goal a
- part of the performance evaluations of NASA's associate and
- assistant administrators and center directors," said Goldin.
-
- Other steps announced today to meet the goal are to
- direct that contract consolidations which reduce prime awards
- to SDBs will be made only with the concurrence of NASA's
- chief of staff and to challenge the Jet Propulsion
- Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to double their SDB
- subcontracting in FY 1993.
-
- On Dec. 2, NASA announced that $310 million would be set
- aside under a determinations and findings (D & F) to ensure
- that NASA reaches the goal. The D & F listed 26 requirements
- for contracts at NASA centers.
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- The goal includes small disadvantaged businesses, women-
- owned businesses, Historically Black Colleges and
- Universities and minority educational institutions. The
- congressionally-mandated goal was included in the FY 1990
- NASA appropriations bill.
-