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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 9000–0177]; [Docket No.
2015–0076; Sequence 27]
Submission to OMB for Review;
Federal Acquisition Regulation;
Reporting Executive Compensation
and First-Tier Subcontract Awards
Department of Defense (DoD),
General Services Administration (GSA),
and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
AGENCY:
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Notice of request for a new OMB
clearance.
ACTION:
Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be
submitting to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for a new
information collection requirement for
Reporting Executive Compensation and
First-tier Subcontract Awards. A notice
soliciting public comments on the
information collection was published in
the Federal Register at 79 FR 60468, on
October 7, 2014. No comments were
received.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
July 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
identified by Information Collection
9000–0177, Reporting Executive
Compensation and First-tier Subcontract
Awards, by any of the following
methods:
• Regulations.gov: https://
www.regulations.gov.
Submit comments via the Federal
eRulemaking portal by searching the
OMB control number 9000–0177. Select
the link ‘‘Comment Now’’ that
corresponds with ‘‘Information
Collection 9000–0177, Reporting
Executive Compensation and First-tier
Subcontract Awards.’’ Follow the
instructions provided at the ‘‘Comment
Now’’ screen. Please include your name,
company name (if any), and
‘‘Information Collection 9000–0177,
Reporting Executive Compensation and
First-tier Subcontract Awards’’ on your
attached document.
• Mail: General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat
Division (MVCB), ATTN: Ms. Flowers,
1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC
20405.
• Instructions: Please submit
comments only and cite ‘‘Information
Collection 9000–0177, Reporting
Executive Compensation and First-tier
Subcontract Awards,’’ in all
correspondence related to this
collection. All comments received will
be posted without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal and/or business confidential
information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Mahruba Uddowla, Procurement
Analyst, Office of Government-wide
Policy, contact via telephone 703–605–
2868 or email to mahruba.uddowla@
gsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
A. Purpose
The Federal Funding Accountability
and Transparency Act (‘‘Transparency
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Act’’), Public Law 109–282, as amended
by section 6202 of Public Law 110–252,
was enacted to reduce ‘‘wasteful and
unnecessary spending’’ by requiring that
OMB establish a free, public, online
database containing full disclosure of all
Federal contract award information for
awards of $25,000 or more.
DoD, GSA, and NASA published an
interim rule for public comment at 75
FR 39414, on July 8, 2010, to implement
the Transparency Act reporting
requirements. The rule requires the
insertion of FAR clause 52.204–10,
Reporting Executive Compensation and
First-Tier Subcontract Awards, in
solicitations and contracts (including
commercial item contracts and
commercially available off-the-shelf
(COTS) item contracts) of $25,000 or
more.
The clause at 52.204–10 requires,
unless otherwise directed by the
contracting officer, for first-tier
subcontracts valued at $25,000 or more,
prime contractors to report first-tier
subcontract award data (e.g., name,
amount, address, etc.). If the contractor
in the previous tax year had gross
income, from all sources, under
$300,000, the contractor is exempt from
the requirement to report first-tier
subcontractor awards. If a first-tier
subcontractor in the previous tax year
had gross income from all sources under
$300,000, the contractor does not need
to report awards to that first-tier
subcontractor. Contractors will provide
these subcontract reports to the Federal
Funding Accountability and
Transparency Act Subaward Reporting
System (FSRS) (https://www.fsrs.gov).
DoD, GSA, and NASA note that there is
pre-population of some data in FSRS
from other Government systems.
The clause at 52.204–10 also requires
a contractor to report in the System for
Award Management (SAM) database at
https://www.sam.gov, the names and
total compensation of each of its five
most highly compensated executives for
the contractor’s preceding completed
fiscal year. Contractors and first-tier
subcontractors are not required to report
the total compensation information
required by the rule, unless—
(i) In the contractor or subcontractor’s
preceding fiscal year, the contractor or
subcontractor received—
(l) 80 percent or more of its annual
gross revenues in Federal contracts (and
subcontracts), loans, grants (and
subgrants), cooperative agreements; and
(2) $25,000,000 or more in annual
gross revenue from Federal contracts
(and subcontracts), loans, grants (and
subgrants), cooperative agreements; and
(ii) The public does not have access
to information about the compensation
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of the executives through periodic
reports filed under section 13(a) or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(15 U.S.C. 78m(a), 78o(d)) or section
6104 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986. (To determine if the public has
access to the compensation information,
see the U.S. Security and Exchange
Commission total compensation filings
at https://www.sec.gov/answers/
execomp.htm.)
B. Annual Reporting Burden
The total annual burden associated
with the reporting requirements of FAR
52.204–10 is estimated to be
$33,230,972.
1. Reporting first-tier subcontract
award information. The FY13 Federal
Procurement Data System (FPDS) data
collected for new contract actions
valued at $25,000 or greater, indicated
that there were 155,292 contractors with
unique DUNS numbers. It is estimated
that based on the exemptions in the rule
(e.g., contractors in the previous tax year
with less than $300,000 in gross income
do not have to report), seventy-five
percent of the contractors with actions
valued at $25,000 or greater would be
subject to the reporting requirements,
which would be 116,469 contractors.
The burden to report the subcontractor
award information (e.g., name, amount,
address, etc.) under FAR 52.204–10 is
estimated to average 2 hours per
response for a prime contractor and
approximately three first-tier
subcontractors per prime contractor. We
estimate the total annual public cost
burden for these elements to be
$30,747,816 based on the following:
Respondents: 116,469.
Responses per respondent: 3.
Total annual responses: 349,407.
Preparation hours per response: 2.
Total response burden hours: 698,814.
Average hourly wages: ($33.00 +
36.25% overhead. Rounded to nearest
dollar): $45.00
Estimated cost to the public:
$30,747,816
2. Reporting executive compensation.
There were 367,875 active registrants in
SAM as of September 17, 2014. Of the
367,875 total active registrants, 360,000
were screened out by two questions
supporting the rule’s requirements, i.e.,
didn’t have 80% or more of their annual
gross revenue in U.S. Federal contracts,
grants, and/or cooperative agreements
and didn’t make more than $25 million
in annual gross revenue, or did have
80% or $25 million from Federal
contracts/grants/cooperative
agreements, but the public already had
access to the information. It is estimated
that it would require those 360,000
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registrants 0.10 hours per response, for
a total of 36,000 response hours.
A total of 7,875 SAM registrants
would be required to enter actual values
for their top five most highly
compensated executives. It is estimated
that it would require these 7,875
registrants 2.5 hours to provide the
information required, for a total of
19,688 response hours.
Therefore, it is estimated that the total
population of respondents is 367,875,
and the total estimated response hours
is 55,688, resulting in a weighted
average of 0.15 hours per respondent for
executive compensation reporting.
The Councils estimate the total
annual public cost burden for this
element to be $2,483,156 based on the
following:
Respondents: 367,875.
Responses per respondent: 1.
Total annual responses: 367,875.
Preparation hours per response: 0.15.
Total response burden hours: 55,181.
Average hourly wages:
($33.06+36.25%overhead): $45.00
Estimated cost to the public:
$2,483,156.
Based on the above calculations, DoD,
GSA, and NASA estimate the total
annual burden associated with reporting
requirements of FAR 52.204–10 to be
$33,323,972. The reporting burden
includes the time for reviewing
instructions, and reporting the data. It
does not cover the time required to
conduct research or the time to obtain
the information for the data elements.
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C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the Federal
Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and
whether it will have practical utility;
whether our estimate of the public
burden of this collection of information
is accurate, and based on valid
assumptions and methodology; ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
ways in which we can minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, through
the use of appropriate technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
supporting statement 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. 9000–0177, Reporting
Executive Compensation and First-tier
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Subcontract Awards, in all
correspondence.
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Instructions: Please submit comments
only and cite Information Collection
9000–0048, Authorized Negotiators, in
all correspondence related to this
collection. All comments received will
be posted without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal and/or business confidential
information provided.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dated: June 18, 2015.
Edward Loeb,
Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy
Division, Office of Governmentwide
Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition
Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy.
Mr.
Edward Loeb, Procurement Analyst,
Office of Governmentwide Acquisition
Policy, GSA, 202–501–0650 or via email
to Edward.loeb@gsa.gov.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 9000–0048; Docket 2015–
0076; Sequence 18]
Federal Acquisition Regulation;
Information Collection; Authorized
Negotiators
Department of Defense (DOD),
General Services Administration (GSA),
and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of request for an
extension to an existing OMB clearance.
AGENCIES:
Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, 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 regarding
Authorized Negotiators.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
August 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
identified by Information Collection
9000–0048, Authorized Negotiators, by
any of the following methods:
• Regulations.gov: https://
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–
0048, Authorized Negotiators’’. Follow
the instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit
a Comment’’ screen. Please include your
name, company name (if any), and
‘‘Information Collection 9000–0048,
Authorized Negotiators’’ on your
attached document.
• Mail: General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat
Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20405. ATTN: Ms.
Flowers/IC 9000–0048, Authorized
Negotiators.
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A. Purpose
Per FAR 52.215–1(c)(2)(iv), firms
offering supplies or services to the
Government under negotiated
solicitations must provide the names,
titles, and telephone numbers of
authorized negotiators to assure that
discussions are held with authorized
individuals. The information collected
is referred to before contract
negotiations and it becomes part of the
official contract file.
C. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 68,000.
Responses Per Respondent: 8.
Total Responses: 544,000.
Hours Per Response: .017.
Total Burden Hours: 9248.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the Federal
Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and
whether it will have practical utility;
whether our estimate of the public
burden of this collection of information
is accurate, and based on valid
assumptions and methodology; ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
ways in which we can minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, through
the use of appropriate technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
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. 9000–0048,
Authorized Negotiator, in all
correspondence.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 9000-0177]; [Docket No. 2015-0076; Sequence 27]
Submission to OMB for Review; Federal Acquisition Regulation;
Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards
AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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ACTION: Notice of request for a new OMB clearance.
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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for a new information collection
requirement for Reporting Executive Compensation and First-tier
Subcontract Awards. A notice soliciting public comments on the
information collection was published in the Federal Register at 79 FR
60468, on October 7, 2014. No comments were received.
DATES: Submit comments on or before July 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 9000-
0177, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-tier Subcontract
Awards, by any of the following methods:
Regulations.gov: https://www.regulations.gov.
Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the
OMB control number 9000-0177. Select the link ``Comment Now'' that
corresponds with ``Information Collection 9000-0177, Reporting
Executive Compensation and First-tier Subcontract Awards.'' Follow the
instructions provided at the ``Comment Now'' screen. Please include
your name, company name (if any), and ``Information Collection 9000-
0177, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-tier Subcontract
Awards'' on your attached document.
Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory
Secretariat Division (MVCB), ATTN: Ms. Flowers, 1800 F Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20405.
Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite
``Information Collection 9000-0177, Reporting Executive Compensation
and First-tier Subcontract Awards,'' in all correspondence related to
this collection. All comments received will be posted without change to
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal and/or business
confidential information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Mahruba Uddowla, Procurement
Analyst, Office of Government-wide Policy, contact via telephone 703-
605-2868 or email to mahruba.uddowla@gsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
(``Transparency Act''), Public Law 109-282, as amended by section 6202
of Public Law 110-252, was enacted to reduce ``wasteful and unnecessary
spending'' by requiring that OMB establish a free, public, online
database containing full disclosure of all Federal contract award
information for awards of $25,000 or more.
DoD, GSA, and NASA published an interim rule for public comment at
75 FR 39414, on July 8, 2010, to implement the Transparency Act
reporting requirements. The rule requires the insertion of FAR clause
52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract
Awards, in solicitations and contracts (including commercial item
contracts and commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item
contracts) of $25,000 or more.
The clause at 52.204-10 requires, unless otherwise directed by the
contracting officer, for first-tier subcontracts valued at $25,000 or
more, prime contractors to report first-tier subcontract award data
(e.g., name, amount, address, etc.). If the contractor in the previous
tax year had gross income, from all sources, under $300,000, the
contractor is exempt from the requirement to report first-tier
subcontractor awards. If a first-tier subcontractor in the previous tax
year had gross income from all sources under $300,000, the contractor
does not need to report awards to that first-tier subcontractor.
Contractors will provide these subcontract reports to the Federal
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Subaward Reporting System
(FSRS) (https://www.fsrs.gov). DoD, GSA, and NASA note that there is
pre-population of some data in FSRS from other Government systems.
The clause at 52.204-10 also requires a contractor to report in the
System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov, the
names and total compensation of each of its five most highly
compensated executives for the contractor's preceding completed fiscal
year. Contractors and first-tier subcontractors are not required to
report the total compensation information required by the rule,
unless--
(i) In the contractor or subcontractor's preceding fiscal year, the
contractor or subcontractor received--
(l) 80 percent or more of its annual gross revenues in Federal
contracts (and subcontracts), loans, grants (and subgrants),
cooperative agreements; and
(2) $25,000,000 or more in annual gross revenue from Federal
contracts (and subcontracts), loans, grants (and subgrants),
cooperative agreements; and
(ii) The public does not have access to information about the
compensation of the executives through periodic reports filed under
section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15
U.S.C. 78m(a), 78o(d)) or section 6104 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986. (To determine if the public has access to the compensation
information, see the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission total
compensation filings at https://www.sec.gov/answers/execomp.htm.)
B. Annual Reporting Burden
The total annual burden associated with the reporting requirements
of FAR 52.204-10 is estimated to be $33,230,972.
1. Reporting first-tier subcontract award information. The FY13
Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) data collected for new contract
actions valued at $25,000 or greater, indicated that there were 155,292
contractors with unique DUNS numbers. It is estimated that based on the
exemptions in the rule (e.g., contractors in the previous tax year with
less than $300,000 in gross income do not have to report), seventy-five
percent of the contractors with actions valued at $25,000 or greater
would be subject to the reporting requirements, which would be 116,469
contractors. The burden to report the subcontractor award information
(e.g., name, amount, address, etc.) under FAR 52.204-10 is estimated to
average 2 hours per response for a prime contractor and approximately
three first-tier subcontractors per prime contractor. We estimate the
total annual public cost burden for these elements to be $30,747,816
based on the following:
Respondents: 116,469.
Responses per respondent: 3.
Total annual responses: 349,407.
Preparation hours per response: 2.
Total response burden hours: 698,814.
Average hourly wages: ($33.00 + 36.25% overhead. Rounded to nearest
dollar): $45.00
Estimated cost to the public: $30,747,816
2. Reporting executive compensation. There were 367,875 active
registrants in SAM as of September 17, 2014. Of the 367,875 total
active registrants, 360,000 were screened out by two questions
supporting the rule's requirements, i.e., didn't have 80% or more of
their annual gross revenue in U.S. Federal contracts, grants, and/or
cooperative agreements and didn't make more than $25 million in annual
gross revenue, or did have 80% or $25 million from Federal contracts/
grants/cooperative agreements, but the public already had access to the
information. It is estimated that it would require those 360,000
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registrants 0.10 hours per response, for a total of 36,000 response
hours.
A total of 7,875 SAM registrants would be required to enter actual
values for their top five most highly compensated executives. It is
estimated that it would require these 7,875 registrants 2.5 hours to
provide the information required, for a total of 19,688 response hours.
Therefore, it is estimated that the total population of respondents
is 367,875, and the total estimated response hours is 55,688, resulting
in a weighted average of 0.15 hours per respondent for executive
compensation reporting.
The Councils estimate the total annual public cost burden for this
element to be $2,483,156 based on the following:
Respondents: 367,875.
Responses per respondent: 1.
Total annual responses: 367,875.
Preparation hours per response: 0.15.
Total response burden hours: 55,181.
Average hourly wages: ($33.06+36.25%overhead): $45.00
Estimated cost to the public: $2,483,156.
Based on the above calculations, DoD, GSA, and NASA estimate the
total annual burden associated with reporting requirements of FAR
52.204-10 to be $33,323,972. The reporting burden includes the time for
reviewing instructions, and reporting the data. It does not cover the
time required to conduct research or the time to obtain the information
for the data elements.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
functions of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and whether it
will have practical utility; whether our estimate of the public burden
of this collection of information is accurate, and based on valid
assumptions and methodology; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and ways in which we can
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, through the use of appropriate technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals: Requesters may obtain a copy of the
supporting statement 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-
0177, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-tier Subcontract
Awards, in all correspondence.
Dated: June 18, 2015.
Edward Loeb,
Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of
Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office
of Governmentwide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-15516 Filed 6-23-15; 8:45 am]
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