§ 125.10. Mentor-Protégé programs of other agencies.
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(a)Except as provided in paragraph
(c)of this section, a Federal department or agency may not carry out a mentor-protégé program for small business unless the head of the department or agency submits a plan to the SBA Administrator for the program and the SBA Administrator approves the plan. Before starting a new mentor protégé program, the head of a department or agency must submit a plan to the SBA Administrator. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the head of a department or agency must submit a plan to the SBA for any previously existing mentor-protégé program that the department or agency seeks to continue.
(b)The SBA Administrator will approve or disapprove a plan submitted under paragraph
(a)of this section based on whether the proposed program:
(1)Will assist protégés to compete for Federal prime contracts and subcontracts; and
(2)Complies with the provisions set forth in §§ 125.9 and 124.520 of this chapter, as applicable.
(c)Paragraph
(a)of this section does not apply to:
(1)Any mentor-protégé program of the Department of Defense;
(2)Any mentoring assistance provided under a Small Business Innovation Research Program or a Small Business Technology Transfer Program; and
(3)A mentor-protégé program operated by a Department or agency on January 2, 2013, for a period of one year after the effective date of this section.
(d)The head of each Federal department or agency carrying out an agency-specific mentor-protégé program must report annually to SBA:
(1)The participants (both protégé firms and their approved mentors) in its mentor-protégé program. This includes identifying the number of participants that are:
(i)Small business concerns;
(ii)Small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans;
(iii)Small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals;
(iv)Small business concerns owned and controlled by Indian tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, Native Hawaiian Organizations, and Community Development Corporations; and
(v)Small business concerns owned and controlled by women;
(2)The assistance provided to small businesses through the program; and
(3)The progress of protégé firms under the program to compete for Federal prime contracts and subcontracts. \[81 FR 48585, July 25, 2016\]
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Mentor-Protégé programs of other agencies.
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