Bid–Listing

Oppose mandatory bid-listing laws and regulations. Mandatory bid listing for federal government projects undermines the control of a project by the general contractor, inserts the government in the contractual relationship, limits opportunities for subcontractors to compete, and increases the burden on contracting officers.

Contract Bundling

Construction contracts must be reviewed to determine bundling definitions. The current contract bundling definition is overly limited. Agencies are able to avoid having to do any sort of economic impact analysis simply by adding a component that small businesses are not performing to a contract that would otherwise meet the bundling definition. Modifying the definition to include construction and other new work would expand the number of contracts reviewed by 50 percent.

Corps Continuing Contracts

Allow continuing contracts on major construction projects to improve project delivery and reduce costs. Absent fully funding all navigation and waterways projects, the continuing contracts clause is necessary to finance multi-year projects. It is unreasonable to expect contractors to finance government projects for unanticipated demobilization and remobilization costs due to funding shortages.

Eliminate Special Preferences

Eliminate special preference and quotas in government contracting. All construction firms should have equal opportunity to succeed or fail on their individual merits, without regard to the race or gender of their ownership.

General Services Administration (GSA) Reform

Support General Services Administration (GSA) reform. The implementation of policies that promote the uniform operation of GSA’s regional offices will provide consistency in the construction process with GSA headquarters guidance.

Subcontracting Goals

Allow prime contractors to include all participating subcontractors to determine goal achievement. Current SBA rules prohibit prime contractors from truly accounting for the total amount of dollars flowing to small businesses. Allowing prime contractors to report small business subcontract usage at all tiers would demonstrate true small business participation on a federal contract.