...Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as it is possible the interest of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise,...insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases in contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises,...

...interests of small-business concerns is essential to preserve free competitive enterprise, to ensure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and...contracts for supplies and services for the Government is placed with small-business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of small...

...obvious. The declared congressional policy in the Armed Services Procurement Act, section 2 (b), states that a fair proportion of the total purchases and...contracts for supplies and services for the Government shall be placed with small business concerns. This intention would also seem clear from the memorandum...

...APPENDIX 9 ARMED SERVICES PROCUREMENT ACT OF 1947 SEC. 2. (b) It is the declared policy of the Congress that a fair proportion of the total purchases and...contracts for supplies and services for the Government shall be placed with small business concerns. Whenever it is proposed to make a contract or purchase...

...establishes the Small Defense Plants Administration with authority to (a) effectuate the policy of Congress that a fair proportion of the total purchases and...contracts for supplies and services for the government shall be placed with small-business concerns by jointly determining with the procuring activity that...

...meet any other requirement with respect to capacity and credit. (2) The Congress has as its policy that a fair proportion of the total purchases and...contracts for supplies and services for the Government shall be placed with small-business concerns. To effectuate such policy, small-business concerns within...

...1948, to become effective May 19, 1948. In this act the Congress embodied its long-c'eclared policy that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services shall be placed with small business concerns Since 1948 the Congress has consistently reiterated a...

...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 tne total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with smallbusiness...

...1948, to become effective May 19, 1948. In this act the Congress embodied its long-t'eclared policy that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services shall be placed with small business concerns. Since 1948 the Congress has consistently reiterated a...

...1948, to become effective May 19, 1948. In this act the Congress embodied its long-('eclared policy that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services shall be placed \\ ith small business concerns. Since 1948 the Congress has consistently reiterated...