Extension of the Department of Defense Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Pilot Program (DFARS Case 2012-D024)

Summary:

DCN 20120224 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:

I.  Background

This rule implements section 867 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Pub.L. 112-81). Section 867 amends the DoD Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Pilot Program, section 831 of Public Law 101-510 (10 U.S.C. 2302, note), by changing the--

•  Acceptance date for new program agreements from September 30, 2011, to September 30, 2015; and

•  Eligibility date DoD mentors may incur costs for the purposes of receiving cost reimbursement or credit toward attainment of subcontracting goal, from September 30, 2014, to September 30, 2018.

This final rule implements these changes in the corresponding Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) sections: 219.704(b) and (d); and Appendix I-103 (a) and (b).

DoD has issued 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 24 February 2012.

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