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Table of Contents: 3 Supplier Relations

3   Supplier Relations

3.1   Policy

3.1.1   General

3.1.2   Supply Chain Management

3.2   Supplier Diversity

3.2.1   Policy

3.2.1.d   Definitions

3.2.2   Sourcing

3.2.2.b   Responsibilities

3.2.3   Subcontracting with Small, Minority, and Woman-owned Businesses

3.2.3.d   Contract Clauses

3.2.4   Classification Codes

3.3   Mandatory Sources

3.3.1   Policy

3.3.2   Existing Assets

3.3.3   Workshops for People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

3.3.3.c   Ordering

3.3.4   People Who Are Blind or State Licensing Agencies for the Blind

3.3.5   Defense Energy Support Center

3.4   Government Sources

3.4.1   General

3.4.2   Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (UNICOR)

3.4.2.a   Policy

3.4.3   General Services Administration

3.4.4   Defense Logistics Agency

3.4.5   Veterans Administration

3.4.6   Government Printing Office

3.5   Commercial Suppliers

3.5.1   Policy

3.5.2   Prequalification

3.5.2.b   General

3.5.2.d   Determining the Prequalification Method

3.5.2.e   Determining the Prequalified Suppliers

3.5.2.f   Maintaining Prequalified Lists

3.5.3   Publicizing Purchase Opportunities and Contract Awards

3.5.3.a   Policy

3.5.3.b   Methods

3.5.4   Unsolicited Proposals

3.6   Protests

3.6.1   Applicability

3.6.2   Definitions

3.6.3   Submission

3.6.4   Timeliness

3.6.5   Contract Award

3.6.6   Protests Received by Contracting Officers

3.6.7   Protests Received by the General Counsel

3.7   Debarment, Suspension, and Ineligibility3.7.1

3.7.1   General

3.7.1.a   Definitions

3.7.1.b   Lists

3.7.1.c   Treatment of Suppliers on Postal Service List

3.7.1.e   Conditions for Debarment

3.7.1.f   Period of Debarment

3.7.1.g   Procedural Requirements for Debarment

3.7.1.i   Conditions for Suspension

3.7.1.k   Procedural Requirements for Suspension