Extension of Department of Defense Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Pilot Program (DFARS Case 2011-D050)

Summary:

DCN 20111118 includes a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to extend the date for submittal of applications under the DoD Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Pilot Program for new mentor-prot[eacute]g[eacute] agreements and the date mentors may incur costs and/or receive credit towards fulfilling their small business subcontracting goals through an approved mentor-prot[eacute]g[eacute] agreement.

Supplementary Information:

Background

This Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) case implements section 8016 of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 (Pub. L. 112-10). The NDAA for FY 2011 was signed into law on April 15, 2011. Section 8016 amends the DoD Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Pilot Program (DoD MPP), section 831 of Public Law 110-510 (10 U.S.C. 2302, note), by changing the--

•  Acceptance date for new DoD MPP agreements from September 30, 2010, to September 30, 2011; and

•  Eligibility date DoD mentors may incur costs for the purposes of receiving cost reimbursement or credit toward attainment of subcontracting goals, from September 30, 2013, to September 30, 2014.

This final rule implements these changes in the corresponding DFARS regulations: 219.704(b) and (d); and I-103(a) and (b).

DoD is issuing a final rule because this rule does not have a significant effect beyond the internal operating procedures of DoD and does not have a significant cost or administrative impact on contractors or offerors. This final rule merely extends the effective dates for an existing DoD program. These dates have already been extended by law.

Dates:

The Effective Date for this final rule is 18 November 2011.

Click here to read the entire Federal Register notice for this rule.