[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 248 (Thursday, December 28, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61571-61572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-28025]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 9000-0001; Docket No. 2017-0053; Sequence 14]


Submission for OMB Review; Standard Form 28, Affidavit of 
Individual Surety

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
the Regulatory Secretariat Division 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 
concerning the Standard Form (SF) 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety.

DATES: Submit comments on or before January 29, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding this burden estimate or any other 
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for 
reducing this burden to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for GSA, Room 10236, NEOB, Washington, 
DC 20503. Additionally submit a copy to GSA 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 9000-0001. Select the link that corresponds with 
``Information Collection 9000-0001, SF 28, Affidavit

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of Individual Surety''. Follow the instructions provided on the screen.
    Please include your name, company name (if any), and ``Information 
Collection 9000-0001, SF 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety'', on your 
attached document.
     Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory 
Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20405. 
ATTN: Ms. Mandell/IC 9000-0001, SF 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety.
    Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information 
Collection 9000-0001, SF 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety, 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. Zenaida Delgado, Procurement 
Analyst, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, GSA, 202-969-7207 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose

    The Standard Form (SF) 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety, is used 
by all executive agencies, including the Department of Defense, to 
obtain information from individuals wishing to serve as sureties to 
Government bonds. Offerors and contractors may use an individual surety 
as security for bonds required under a solicitation/contract for 
supplies or services (including construction). It is an elective 
decision on the part of the offeror/contractor to use individual 
sureties instead of other available sources of surety or sureties for 
Government bonds. The information on the SF 28 is used to assist the 
contracting officer in determining the acceptability of individuals 
proposed as sureties.

B. Public Comment

    A 60 day notice was published in the Federal Register at 82 FR 
48231, on October 17, 2017. No comments were received.

C. Annual Reporting Burden

    The number of solicitations and contracts requiring the submission 
of bid guarantees, performance, or payment bonds, correlate roughly to 
the number of contract awards containing FAR clause 52.228-11, Pledge 
of Assets. Fiscal year 2016 data on the number of contracts containing 
FAR clause 52.228-11 was obtained from the Electronic Document Access 
system (DoD official contract file system) to estimate burdens for this 
information collection notice. The following is a summary of the FY 
2016 data:
    Respondents: 244.
    Responses Per Respondent: 2.
    Total Responses: 488.
    Hours Per Response: 0.3.
    Total Burden Hours: 146.
    Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the 
information collection documents from the General Services 
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street 
NW, Washington, DC 20405, telephone 202-501-4755. Please cite OMB 
Control No. 9000-0001, SF 28, Affidavit of Individual Surety, in all 
correspondence.

    Dated: December 21, 2017.
Lorin S. Curit,
Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of Government-
wide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of 
Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2017-28025 Filed 12-27-17; 8:45 am]
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