HigherEd123 Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 I'm a contracts specialist at an educational institution, and we are grappling with a question about compliance. We have FAR 52.219-9 (Small Business Subcontracting Plan) inserted into various federal contracts. I see that as part of this clause, "The offeror, upon request by the Contracting Officer, shall submit and negotiate a subcontracting plan". Later, the clause indicates that this plan will be made part of the resultant contract. My question is this: If the CO never requested the plan, never made it part of the agreement, then is the University still out of compliance if we never submitted one? Do we now need to go back and pull every contract this is part of and make these 'backdated' subcontracting plans and then notify our CO? Many of these awards are well into the period of performance. Thank you for any assistance anyone can provide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelle Green Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 If the contracts say the subcontracting plan must be furnished at the request of the CO, and the CO has never requested those plans, what is the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HigherEd123 Posted July 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 If the contracts say the subcontracting plan must be furnished at the request of the CO, and the CO has never requested those plans, what is the issue? I'm wondering if a clause is inserted into a contract, yet never enforced by the CO, such as 52.219-9, is the university still liable to comply (in this case, have a subcontracting plan on file that we can show proof we've followed.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 The clause is in your contract, so yes, you're liable. Whether the government will enforce the clause is another matter. Why don't you ask them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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