Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on July 1, 1947Considers (80) H.R. 1366. |
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advertising and competitive agency head determines airplane Armed Services Army and Navy AUSTERN authority to negotiate basis Baxter believe bid method bid price bid system bidder bill canners CHAIRMAN CHAMBERS CHAN GURNEY Committee on Armed competitive bidding Condon Congress cost Davis-Bacon Act distributors exception experience fact funds going Government industry jobbers KENNEY language lower price MacKeachie manufacturer marine post exchange Mechanicsburg ment merchandise National Canners Association National Defense Navy Departments negotiate contracts negotiated buying negotiated purchase pack parachute paragraph peacetime permit plane Powers Act present law problem production provisions purchase by negotiation Quartermaster question repealed resale ROYALL Secretary Senator BALDWIN Senator BYRD Senator HILL Senator KILGORE Senator SALTONSTALL ships specifications staff statement statutes subsection subsistence supplies and services supplies or services technical equipment thing tion truck UNITED STATES SENATE VANDENBERG War Department War Powers Act wholesalers
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Page 30 - ... (b) The negotiated price is lower than the lowest rejected bid price of a responsible bidder, as determined by the Secretary; and (c) The negotiated price is the lowest negotiated price offered by any responsible supplier.
Page 19 - ... to which the agency head determines that bid prices after advertising therefor are not reasonable...
Page 46 - Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
Page 31 - Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force...
Page 22 - ... the supplies or services are to be procured and used outside the limits of the United States and its possessions; (7) for medicines or medical supplies; (8) for supplies purchased for authorized resale; (9) for perishable subsistence supplies; (10) for supplies or services for which it is impracticable to secure competition...
Page 21 - It is needless to say that that is not the way to do it. The way to do it, paradoxical as it may seem, is genuinely not to care whether you are doing it or not.
Page 17 - ... agency head bids received after advertising evidence any violation of the antitrust laws he shall refer the bids to the Attorney General for appropriate action. Recommendations. — House Report 109 and Senate Report 571: The report says small-business concerns should be given opportunity to secure a fair proportion of the total value of all purchases and contracts. It is believed that this would benefit small business and assist the services in the development of a larger number of known suppliers...
Page 16 - ... (4) for personal or professional services; (5) for any service to be rendered by any university, college, or other educational institution...
Page 8 - This section shall not be construed to (A) authorize the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public building or public improvement, but such authorization shall be required in the same manner as heretofore, or (B) permit any contract for the construction or repair of buildings, roads, sidewalks, sewers, mains, or similar items to be negotiated without advertising as required by section 303, unless such contract is to be performed outside the continental United States...
Page 15 - ... (14) the purchase or contract is for technical or special property that he determines to require a substantial initial investment or an extended period of preparation for manufacture, and for which he determines that formal advertising...