[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 195 (Thursday, October 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54161-54162]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26931]


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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

Office of Federal Procurement Policy


Small Disadvantaged Business Procurement; Reform of Affirmative 
Action in Federal Procurement

AGENCY: Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).

ACTION: Notice of definitions of regions used in price evaluation 
adjustments and benchmarking methodology.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), 48 CFR Part 19, 
contains regulations permitting eligible small disadvantaged businesses 
(SDB's) to receive price evaluation adjustments in Federal Procurement 
Programs. The FAR provides further that the Department of Commerce 
(DOC) will determine the price evaluations adjustments (percentages) by 
standard industrial classification (SIC) major groups and regions (if 
any). OMB published the DOC Notice of Determination Concerning the 
Price Evaluation Adjustment in the Federal Register on June 30, 1998 
(63 FR 35714). The original DOC notice recommended price evaluation 
adjustments on a national basis for all SIC major groups except 
construction major groups 15, 16, and 17, which were on a regional 
basis. The original DOC notice did not include the list of states and 
outlying areas that comprise the regions (of which there are nine). The 
attached DOC memorandum supplements the original notice by listing the 
states and outlying areas for the nine regions.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Linda G. Williams, Deputy 
Associate Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, 
Telephone 202-395-3302. For further information on the Commerce 
regional definitions, contact Mr. Jeffrey Mayer, Director of Policy 
Development, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department 
of Commerce, Telephone, 202-482-1728.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Definitions of Regions

    OFPP gives notice that the attached Memorandum from the DOC 
supplements the original Commerce Notice of Determination Concerning 
Price Evaluation Adjustments by listing the states and outlying areas 
that comprise the nine regions.
Deidre A. Lee,
Administrator.

September 21, 1998.
Memorandum for Office of Federal Procurement Policy
From: Jeffrey L. Mayer, Director of Policy Development.
Subject: Definitions of Regions Used in Price Evaluation Adjustments 
and Benchmarking Methodology.

    This memorandum supplements the Notice of Determination Concerning 
Price Evaluation Adjustments transmitted by the Department of Commerce 
(DOC) to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and published in the 
Federal Register on June 30, 1998. In the Notice, recommendations 
specific to major industry groups (and combinations thereof) apply 
nation-wide for all industry groupings except the major construction 
industry groups (Standard Industrial Classification Major Industry 
Groups 15, 16, and 17). Recommendations in these three major groups 
apply regionally rather than nationally. Regional definitions are based 
on the nine multi-state Divisions used by the Bureau of the Census when 
it reports certain sub-national data. DOC augmented the Bureau's basic 
definitions for the Divisions by including Guam in the Pacific Region 
and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the South Atlantic Region. 
This memorandum provides a complete list of the states and outlying 
areas that comprise each of the nine regions used by DOC.

East North Central: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin
East South Central: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee
Middle Atlantic: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
Mountain: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, 
Wyoming
East England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rode 
Island, Vermont
Pacific: Alaska, California, Guam, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington
South Atlantic: Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, 
Maryland, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina Virgin Islands, 
Virginia, West Virginia
West North Central: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North 
Dakota, South Dakota

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West South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas.

[FR Doc. 98-26931 Filed 10-7-98; 8:45 am]
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