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OMB Control No: 9000-0163	ICR Reference No: 201906-9000-004
Status: Historical Inactive	Previous ICR Reference No: 201807-9000-002
Agency/Subagency: FAR	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Small Business Size Rerepresentation; FAR Sections Affected 19.301 and 52.219-28
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Comment filed on proposed rule and continue	Conclusion Date: 08/26/2019
	Date Received in OIRA: 06/20/2019
Terms of Clearance: The FAR Council should re-submit this collection when the final rule is submitted for OMB review.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	09/30/2021	36 Months From Approved	09/30/2021
Responses	2,200	0	2,200
Time Burden (Hours)	1,100	0	1,100
Cost Burden (Dollars)	40,700	0	40,700

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Changing Regulations

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The FAR is revised to implement the new discretionary authority for contracting officers to require rerepresentations of small business contractors for task or delivery orders. It is estimated that the revisions to the FAR will result in 1,770 more rerepresentations per year. The 1,770 figure is based on reasoning that contracting officers will exercise their discretionary authority to require rerepresentations only for large dollar value orders (i.e. over $1 million) and then only for a portion of such orders (i.e. 10%). According to the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS), there were 5,879 task and delivery orders over $1 million awarded in fiscal year (FY) 2017. Ten percent of these orders are approximately 590 orders. Estimating that the Request for Quotations (RFQ) for each order resulted on average 3 quotations, there would be 1,770 rerepresentations per year (590 orders X 3 quotations per order) at the order-level. The revision to the FAR will result in a total of 1,985 hours, an increase of 885 hours from the annual reporting burden published in the Federal Register at 83 FR 27004, on June 11, 2018 (1,100 hours).

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $195,545

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Mahruba Uddowla 703 605-2868 mahruba.uddowla@gsa.gov

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