Rule2024-29376
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-02; Small Entity Compliance Guide
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Published
December 16, 2024
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Defense DepartmentGeneral Services AdministrationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Abstract
This document is issued under the joint authority of DoD, GSA, and NASA. This Small Entity Compliance Guide has been prepared in accordance with section 212 of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996. It consists of a summary of the rules appearing in Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025-02, which amends the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Interested parties may obtain further information regarding these rules by referring to FAC 2025-02, which precedes this document.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 241 (Monday, December 16, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 101832]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29376]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
48 CFR Chapter 1
[Docket No. FAR-2024-0051, Sequence No. 7]
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular
2025-02; Small Entity Compliance Guide
AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Small Entity Compliance Guide (SECG).
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SUMMARY: This document is issued under the joint authority of DoD, GSA,
and NASA. This Small Entity Compliance Guide has been prepared in
accordance with section 212 of the Small Business Regulatory
Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996. It consists of a summary of the rules
appearing in Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025-02, which amends
the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Interested parties may obtain
further information regarding these rules by referring to FAC 2025-02,
which precedes this document.
DATES: December 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The FAC, including the SECG, is available at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For clarification of content, contact
the analyst whose name appears in the table below. Please cite FAC
2025-02 and the FAR Case number. For information pertaining to status
or publication schedules, contact the Regulatory Secretariat Division
at 202-501-4755 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c681958794a3a195a3a586a1b5a7e8a1a9b0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="abecf8eaf9ceccf8cec8ebccd8ca85ccc4dd">[email protected]</span></a>. An asterisk (*) next to a rule
indicates that a regulatory flexibility analysis has been prepared.
Rules Listed in FAC 2025-02
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Item Subject FAR case Analyst
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* I............ Training to Prevent 2019-017 Jones.
Human Trafficking For
Certain Air Carriers.
* II........... Certification of 2022-009 Moore.
Service-Disabled
Veteran-Owned Small
Businesses.
III............ Technical Amendments..
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Summaries for each FAR rule follow. For the
actual revisions and/or amendments made by these FAR rules, refer to
the specific item numbers and subjects set forth in the documents
following these item summaries. FAC 2025-02 amends the FAR as follows:
Item I--Training To Prevent Human Trafficking For Certain Air Carriers
(FAR Case 2019-017)
This final rule amends the FAR to implement section 111 of the
Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-425), enacted January 8, 2019.
Section 111 requires that domestic carriers who contract with the
Federal Government to provide air transportation submit an annual
report with certain information related to prevention of human
trafficking to the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of
Transportation, the Secretary of Labor, the Administrator of the
Transportation Security Administration, and the Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection. Section 111 does not apply to contracts
awarded by the Department of Defense.
This rule creates a new contract clause at FAR 52.247-69, Reporting
Requirement for U.S.-Flag Air Carriers Regarding Training to Prevent
Human Trafficking, to implement the statutory reporting requirement.
Contracting officers will include this clause in solicitations and
contracts for the transportation by air of passengers. The reporting
requirement applies to U.S.-flag air carriers, including small business
air carriers. The final rule is not expected to have a significant
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities within the
meaning of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
Item II--Certification of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small
Businesses (FAR Case 2022-009)
This FAR rule adopts, without change, an interim rule that amended
the FAR to implement the Governmentwide certification requirement for
service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concerns seeking
sole-source and set-aside awards under the SDVOSB Program. Effective
January 1, 2024, an SDVOSB concern must have either been certified by
the Small Business Administration (SBA), or have both submitted an
application for certification to SBA on or before December 31, 2023,
and represented that it is an SDVOSB in the System for Award Management
(SAM), in order to be eligible for sole-source or set-aside awards
under the SDVOSB Program. This rule required that an SDVOSB concern
update its status in SAM no later than two days after the date of a
final determination that the concern does not meet the requirements of
the status the concern claims to hold. This rule also provided new
SDVOSB protest and appeal procedures.
Item III--Technical Amendments
Administrative changes are made at FAR 13.302-5, 25.101, 36.603,
49.601-2, 52.204-2, 52.204-7, 52.204-8, 52.204-19, 52.212-5, 52.225-3,
52.225-4, and 52.225-18.
William F. Clark,
Director, Office of Government-wide Acquisition Policy, Office of
Acquisition Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2024-29376 Filed 12-13-24; 8:45 am]
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