[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18593-18594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-06917]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 9000-0174; Docket 2012-0076; Sequence 64]


Information Collection; Information Regarding Responsibility 
Matters

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration 
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of request for public comments regarding an existing OMB 
information clearance.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the 
Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a 
previously approved information collection requirement regarding 
Information Regarding Responsibility Matters.

DATES: Submit comments on or before May 28, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 9000-
0174, Information Regarding Responsibility Matters, by any of the 
following methods:
     Regulations.gov: http://www.regulations.gov. Submit 
comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB 
control number. Select the link ``Submit a Comment'' that corresponds 
with ``Information Collection 9000-0174, Information Regarding 
Responsibility Matters''. Follow the instructions provided at the 
``Submit a Comment'' screen. Please include your name, company name (if 
any), and ``Information Collection 9000-0174, Information Regarding 
Responsibility Matters'' on your attached document.
     Fax: 202-501-4067.
     Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory 
Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: 
Hada Flowers/IC 9000-0174, Information Regarding Responsibility 
Matters.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 9000-0174, Information Regarding Responsibility Matters, in 
all correspondence related to this collection. All comments received 
will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including 
any personal and/or business confidential information provided.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Cecelia L. Davis, Procurement 
Analyst, Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, at (202) 219-0202 
or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    This information collection is necessary to: (a) Determine the 
responsibility of prospective contractors; and (b) ensure that 
contractors maintain for accuracy and completeness, their integrity and 
performance information upon which responsibility determinations rely.
    Section 872 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act 
of 2009 (Public Law 110-417), enacted on October 14, 2008, required the 
development and maintenance of an information system that contains 
specific information on the integrity and performance of covered 
Federal agency contractors and grantees. The Federal Awardee 
Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) was developed to 
address these requirements. FAPIIS provides users access to integrity 
and performance information from the FAPIIS reporting module in the 
Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), as well as 
proceedings information and suspension/disbarment information from the 
Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and the Excluded Parties List 
System (EPLS) functions in the System for Award Management (SAM).
    The provision at FAR 52.209-7 requires that for each solicitation 
where the resultant contract value is expected to exceed $500,000, the 
offeror responds in paragraph (b) as to whether it has, or has not, 
active Federal contracts and grants that total greater than 
$10,000,000. Only if the offeror responds affirmatively is there any 
further FAPIIS-related information collection requirement.
    Because the total dollar amount of its current Federal contracts 
and grants can be quickly retrieved by any firm, the estimated number 
of hours for response to the check block in paragraph (b) of the 
provision at 52.209-7 is 0.1 hours. According to the Federal 
Procurement Data System (FPDS), in Fiscal Year

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2011, contracts with values over $500,000 were awarded to 25,065 unique 
vendors. We estimate an average of five responses annually (i.e., the 
number of proposals received per solicitation issued).
    The clause at FAR 52.209-9 applies to solicitations where the 
resultant contract value is expected to exceed $500,000 and to 
contracts in which the offeror has indicated in paragraph (b) of the 
provision at 52.209-7 that it has current active Federal contracts and 
grants with total values greater than $10,000,000. Paragraph (a) of the 
clause at 52.209-9 requires the contractor to update responsibility 
information on a semiannual basis, throughout the life of the contract, 
by posting the information in the CCR.
    It is estimated that 5,013 respondents (or 20 percent) of the 
25,065 contract awardees will indicate an affirmative answer in 
paragraph (b) of the provision at 52.209-7 and, pursuant to FAR 52.209-
9, those contractors will then have to enter FAPIIS-related data into 
the CCR function in the SAM. Two responses per respondent per year are 
calculated for those respondents with contracts and grants greater than 
$10 million, because of the requirement in FAR 52.209-9 for semi-annual 
updates. Because the FAPIIS information in CCR is maintained on 
individual vendors, contractors awarded more than one contract will 
still only have to update the data two times per year regardless of the 
number of contracts awarded them.
    We have used an average burden estimate of 100 hours to enter the 
company's data into the Web site. This time estimate also includes the 
average annual recordkeeping time necessary per respondent to maintain 
the company's information internally. Most large businesses and some 
small businesses have established systems to track compliance. At this 
time, all or most Government contractors have entered relevant company 
data in the CCR in accordance with another information collection 
requirement.

Annual Reporting Burden

    Initial response (52.209-7):
    Respondents: 25,065.
    Responses per respondent x 5.
    Total annual responses 125,325.
    Hours per Response 0.1.
    Total response burden hours 12,533.
    Additional Response (52.209-9):
    Respondents: 5,013.
    Responses per respondent x 2.
    Total annual responses 10,026.
    Hours per Response .5.
    Total response burden hours 5,013.
    Total response burden hours: 17,546.

Annual Recordkeeping Burden

    Respondents: 5,013.
    Responses per respondent x 1.
    Total annual responses 5,013.
    Hours per Response 100.
    Total Recordkeeping burden hours: 501,300.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the General Services 
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 First Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20417, telephone (202) 501-4755. Please cite OMB Control 
No. 9000-0174, Information Regarding Responsibility Matters, in all 
correspondence.

    Dated: March 21, 2013.
William Clark,
Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of 
Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office 
of Governmentwide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2013-06917 Filed 3-26-13; 8:45 am]
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