PETALUMA, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/20/14 — In a President Obama and Congress will likely (CSPTP) into its 28th year of testing.
The Pentagon adopted the 25 years ago in 1990 under the guise of “.” In reality the CSPTP . Once the CSPTP was implemented, it on publicly available small business subcontracting information and any penalties, such as liquidated damages, for prime contractors that failed to comply with their small business subcontracting goals.
Before 1990, the general public could use the small business subcontracting reports to track a prime contractor–s compliance with their small business subcontracting goals.
For 25 years the Pentagon has any of the subcontracting data prime contractors participating in the CSPTP have submitted.
A found no evidence that the CSPTP had ever “increased subcontracting opportunities for small businesses.”
The Chairman–s Mark of the House version of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Bill stated,
In September, Professor Charles Tiefer issued a that stated, “The program is a sham and its extension will be seriously harmful to vital opportunities for small business to get government contracting work… There is no doubt in my mind the CSPTP has significantly reduced subcontracting opportunities for small businesses. It should not have gotten its 25 years of extension as a never-tested –Test Program.– Let it expire.”
The American Small Business League () has a to of the CSPTP. The ASBL has been the only national small business advocacy group to the . The ASBL has in San Francisco under the to force the Pentagon to release the most recent subcontracting reports submitted under the CSPTP by , British Aerospace and Engineering () and .
“The Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program is one of the biggest anti-small business scams in the history of the Pentagon. The very idea of eliminating all transparency and penalties for prime contracts to see if that increases subcontract opportunities for small business is a staggering example of Pentagon fraud. The fact that Congress has renewed this program for 25 years is insane. The idea that President Obama and Congress could renew this program into its 28th year of testing is the absolute pinnacle of corruption in Washington,” ASBL President Lloyd Chapman stated.
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