10 USC 2304a: Contracts: prohibition on competition between Department of Defense and small businesses and certain other entities
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10 USC 2304a: Contracts: prohibition on competition between Department of Defense and small businesses and certain other entities Text contains those laws in effect on January 4, 1995
From Title 10-ARMED FORCESSubtitle A-General Military LawPART IV-SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENTCHAPTER 137-PROCUREMENT GENERALLY
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§2304a.1 Contracts: prohibition on competition between Department of Defense and small businesses and certain other entities

(a) Exclusion.-In any case in which the Secretary of Defense plans to use competitive procedures for a procurement, if the procurement is to be conducted as described in subsection (b), then the Secretary shall exclude the Department of Defense from competing in the procurement.

(b) Procurement Description.-The requirement to exclude the Department of Defense under subsection (a) applies in the case of a procurement to be conducted by excluding from competition entities in the private sector other than-

(1) small business concerns in furtherance of section 8 or 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637 or 644); or

(2) entities described in subsection (a)(1) of section 2323 of this title in furtherance of the goal specified in that subsection.

(Added Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title VIII, §848(a)(1), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1724 .)

Effective Date

Section 848(b) of Pub. L. 103–160 provided that: "Section 2304a of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 30, 1993]."

1 Another section 2304a is set out after section 2304 of this title.