6 U.S.C. § 428 — Identification of new entrants into the Federal marketplace
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 107-296 to r/title-6-DOMESTIC-SECURITY · 91 words · no verdicts yet
Every federal agency must keep researching the marketplace for new suppliers. The agency must look for small businesses that can help against nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack. Agencies must use commercial market research tools, like databases, whenever practical.
Every executive agency* must keep researching the marketplace on an ongoing basis. The goal is to find businesses — including small businesses and companies new to federal contracting — that can meet the agency's needs.
This applies specifically to work connected with defending against or recovering from terrorism, or from a nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack.
The head of the agency* must, to the maximum extent practicable, use commercially available market research methods to do this. That includes using commercial databases to find and evaluate potential contractors.
The head of each executive agency* shall conduct market research on an ongoing basis to identify effectively the capabilities, including the capabilities of small businesses and new entrants into Federal contracting, that are available in the marketplace for meeting the requirements of the executive agency* in furtherance of defense against or recovery from terrorism or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack. The head of the executive agency shall, to the maximum extent practicable, take advantage of commercially available market research methods, including use of commercial databases, to carry out the research.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 858, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2238.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-296 · 116 Stat. 2238
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