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    Our Small Business Subcontracting Summit is tackling the big issues. Set-Aside Alert and the National Federal Contractors Association (NaFCA) sponsored their second solutions summit on Wednesday, November 9th.

• Have you and your staff thrown a lot of time and effort into proposal development with a prime and then been "left at the altar"?
• Did your quals help the prime win that contract, only to find that he's decided to do the work in-house?
• Have your proposed rates been used to negotiate with another sub?
• Have you signed NDAs and teaming agreements and then been refused a subcontract?
• Or been flimflammed out of your share?
• Are you tired of hearing the excuse that there is no "privity"?
• Does anyone know or care how well primes are doing against their subcontracting plans?

• Subcontracting Policies and Regulations: Proposed Regs
• Panel: Small Business Subcontracting Experiences and Frustrations
• OSDBU Panel: Challenges for Our Federal Advocates
• Primes Panel: Q&A with the Big Guys
• Congressional Perspectives and Proposed Legislation
• Your Proposed Solutions for Legislative and Regulatory Action
• Group Workshops: Focusing on Promising Options

Comments are due January 6, 2012. You can file and read comments filed by other individuals at www.regulations.gov. To submit your own comments, click here.

• Introduce transparency for subcontracting plans

• Extend Prompt Pay criteria to apply to primes

• Expand use of USAID evaluation criteria to other agencies

• Acknowledge the differences between services contracts and products contracts and establish subcontracting plan regs appropriate for each

• Going beyond contract privity

• RFP Requirement for Subcontracting Strategy

• Complete public disclosure of subcontracting activity

• Expand subcontracts reporting via monthly invoices and in CPARs

• Study on Enforcement of Liquidated Damages for subcontracting plan failures

• Establish standards of accountability and professionalism

• Ethical fulfillment of subcontracting plan commitments

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