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B. Discussion and Analysis
One comment was received from the
Center for Equal Opportunity. The
comment suggests that the GSA Mentor´ ´
Protege Program use neither preferences
nor classifications on the basis of race,
ethnicity, or sex. The program does not
distinguish firms on the basis of race or
ethnicity. Women-owned small business
firms may be distinguished as this is a
small business category recognized by
statute through the Small Business Act
(15 U.S.C. Chapter 14a). This notice
regards the information collection
related to administering the GSA
´ ´
Mentor-Protege Program. Any changes
to the program itself would be handled
separately through the rulemaking
process.
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the 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.
C. Annual Reporting Burden
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Respondents: 254.
Responses per Respondent: 4.
Total Annual Responses: 1,016.
Hours per Response: 3.
Total Burden Hours: 3,048.
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. 3090–0286, GSA
´ ´
Mentor-Protege Program, in all
correspondence.
Dated: July 30, 2015.
Jeffrey A. Koses,
Director, Office of Acquisition Policy & Senior
Procurement Executive.
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GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090–0252; Docket 2015–
0001; Sequence 15]
General Services Administration
Acquisition Regulation; Submission
for OMB Review; Preparation,
Submission, and Negotiation of
Subcontracting Plans
Office of Acquisition Policy,
General Services Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Notice of request for comments
regarding an extension to an existing
OMB clearance.
AGENCY:
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
preparation, submission, and
negotiation of subcontracting plans.
This information collection will
ensure that small and small,
disadvantaged business concerns are
afforded the maximum practicable
opportunity to participate as
subcontractors in negotiated
procurements. The Preparation,
Submission, and Negotiation of the
Subcontracting Plans provision requires
for all negotiated solicitations, having
an anticipated award value over
$650,000 ($1,500,000 for construction),
the submission of a subcontracting plan
with an offeror’s proposal. A notice was
published in the Federal Register at 80
FR 27308 on May 13, 2015. No
Comments were received.
DATES: Submit comments on or before:
September 4, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Christina Mullins, Procurement Analyst,
General Services Acquisition Policy
Division, GSA, 202–969–4066 or email
christina.mullins@gsa.gov.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
identified by Information Collection
3090–0252, Preparation, Submission
and Negotiation of Subcontracting Plans
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 3090–0252, Preparation,
Submission and Negotiation of
Subcontracting Plans’’. Follow the
instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a
Comment’’ screen. Please include your
name, company name (if any), and
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‘‘Information Collection 3090–0252,
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Negotiation of Subcontracting Plans’’ on
your attached document.
• Mail: General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat
Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20405. ATTN: Ms.
Flowers/IC 3090–0252, Preparation,
Submission and Negotiation of
Subcontracting Plans.
Instructions: Please submit comments
only and cite Information Collection
3090–0252, Preparation, Submission
and Negotiation of Subcontracting
Plans, 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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
The GSAR provision at 552.219–72
requires all offerors, other than small
business concerns, responding to a
negotiated solicitation to submit a
subcontracting plan with their
respective offers so that a plan can be
negotiated concurrently with other parts
of the proposal, including price and any
technical and management proposals.
The respondents are potential GSA
contractors. The provision may be used
when the contracting officer believes
that the potential contract provides
significant opportunities for small
businesses as subcontractors.
The contracting officer will use the
information to evaluate whether GSA’s
expectation that subcontracting
opportunities exist for small businesses
is reasonable under the circumstances;
negotiate goals consistent with statutory
requirements and acquisition objectives;
and expedite the award process. The
provision is not applicable if an offeror
submits a previously-approved
commercial subcontracting plan.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 1,440.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 1,440.
Hours per Response: 12.
Total Burden Hours: 17,280.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary 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.
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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. 3090–0252,
Preparation, Submission, and
Negotiation of Subcontracting Plans, in
all correspondence.
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Dated: July 30, 2015.
Jeffrey A. Koses,
Director, Office of Acquisition Policy, Senior
Procurement Executive.
Proposed Project
Improving the Impact of Laboratory
Practice Guidelines (LPGs): A New
Paradigm for Metrics- American Society
for Microbiology—NEW—Center for
Surveillance, Epidemiology and
Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
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Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention is funding three 5-year
projects collectively entitled ‘‘Improving
the Impact of Laboratory Practice
Guidelines: A New Paradigm for
Metrics’’. An ‘‘LPG’’ is defined as
written recommendations for voluntary,
standardized approaches for medical
laboratory testing that takes into account
processes for test selection, sample
procurement and processing, analytical
methods, and results reporting for
effective diagnosis and management of
disease and health conditions. LPGs
may be disseminated to, and used by,
laboratorians and clinicians to assist
with test selection and test result
interpretation. The overall purpose of
these cooperative agreements is to
increase the effectiveness of LPGs by
defining measures and collecting
information to inform better LPG
creation, revision, dissemination,
promotion, uptake and impact on
clinical testing and public health.
The project will explore how these
processes and their impediments and
facilitators differ among various
intended users of LPGs. Through this
demonstration project, CDC seeks to
understand how to customize LPG
creation and promotion to better serve
these intended users of LPGs. An
important goal is to help organizations
that sponsor the development of LPGs
create a sustainable approach for
continuous quality improvement to
evaluate and improve an LPG’s impact
through better collection of information.
The CDC selected three organizations
that currently create and disseminate
LPGs to support activities under a
cooperative agreement funding
mechanism to improve the impact of
their LPGs. The American Society for
Microbiology (ASM), the Clinical and
Laboratory Standards Institute, and the
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College of American Pathologists, will
each use their LPGs as models to better
understand how to improve uptake and
impact of these and future LPGs. Only
the ASM submission will be described
in this notice.
The ASM project will address four
LPGs that are important to clinical
testing and have a high public health
impact: reducing blood culture
contamination (BCC), rapid diagnosis of
blood stream infections (BSI), proper
collection and transport of urine (UT),
and microbiological practices to
improve the diagnosis and management
of patients with Clostridium difficile (C.
difficile) infection (CDI). The BCC LPG
was published and it includes
recommendations for the use of: 1)
venipuncture over catheters as the
preferred technique for sample
collection in a clinical setting, and 2)
phlebotomy teams over nonphlebotomist staff for collecting blood
for culture. The BSI report examines the
effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests to
promote more accurate and timely
administration of targeted antibiotic
therapy for patients with bloodstream
infections. This report will be published
and recommendations will be
developed based on additional
information collected. Practices related
to the collection, storage and
preservation of urine for microbiological
culture that improve the diagnosis and
management of patients with urinary
tract infections were analyzed and
approved recommendations will be
published. Microbiological practices
related to improving diagnosis and
management of patients with C. difficile
infection will be collected and analyzed,
and recommendations will also be
developed and published.
The intended respondents of ASM’s
surveys will include microbiology
supervisors, laboratory directors,
laboratory managers, and medical
technologists. For this request for OMB
approval of a new information
collection, we will be requesting
approval to collect baseline and postdissemination information for the BCC
LPG. Because the BSI, UT and CDI
reports are not yet published, ASM will
conduct a baseline survey to determine
current practices prior to dissemination
of the LPGs.
On behalf of the ASM and the CDC,
the Laboratory Response Network
(LRN), which was founded by the CDC,
will recruit laboratories that perform the
kinds of testing affected by these LPGs
to take the surveys. Messages regarding
ASM surveys will be worded as an
invitation, not as a coercive request.
Some states may opt not to recruit LRN
laboratory participation, but because the
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090-0252; Docket 2015-0001; Sequence 15]
General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation;
Submission for OMB Review; Preparation, Submission, and Negotiation of
Subcontracting Plans
AGENCY: Office of Acquisition Policy, General Services Administration
(GSA).
ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding an extension to an
existing OMB clearance.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 to review and approve an
extension of a previously approved information collection requirement
regarding preparation, submission, and negotiation of subcontracting
plans.
This information collection will ensure that small and small,
disadvantaged business concerns are afforded the maximum practicable
opportunity to participate as subcontractors in negotiated
procurements. The Preparation, Submission, and Negotiation of the
Subcontracting Plans provision requires for all negotiated
solicitations, having an anticipated award value over $650,000
($1,500,000 for construction), the submission of a subcontracting plan
with an offeror's proposal. A notice was published in the Federal
Register at 80 FR 27308 on May 13, 2015. No Comments were received.
DATES: Submit comments on or before: September 4, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Christina Mullins, Procurement
Analyst, General Services Acquisition Policy Division, GSA, 202-969-
4066 or email christina.mullins@gsa.gov.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 3090-
0252, Preparation, Submission and Negotiation of Subcontracting Plans
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 3090-0252, Preparation, Submission and
Negotiation of Subcontracting Plans''. Follow the instructions provided
at the ``Submit a Comment'' screen. Please include your name, company
name (if any), and ``Information Collection 3090-0252, Preparation,
Submission and Negotiation of Subcontracting Plans'' on your attached
document.
Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory
Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405.
ATTN: Ms. Flowers/IC 3090-0252, Preparation, Submission and Negotiation
of Subcontracting Plans.
Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information
Collection 3090-0252, Preparation, Submission and Negotiation of
Subcontracting Plans, 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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
The GSAR provision at 552.219-72 requires all offerors, other than
small business concerns, responding to a negotiated solicitation to
submit a subcontracting plan with their respective offers so that a
plan can be negotiated concurrently with other parts of the proposal,
including price and any technical and management proposals. The
respondents are potential GSA contractors. The provision may be used
when the contracting officer believes that the potential contract
provides significant opportunities for small businesses as
subcontractors.
The contracting officer will use the information to evaluate
whether GSA's expectation that subcontracting opportunities exist for
small businesses is reasonable under the circumstances; negotiate goals
consistent with statutory requirements and acquisition objectives; and
expedite the award process. The provision is not applicable if an
offeror submits a previously-approved commercial subcontracting plan.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 1,440.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 1,440.
Hours per Response: 12.
Total Burden Hours: 17,280.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this
collection of information is necessary 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.
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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. 3090-0252, Preparation, Submission, and Negotiation of
Subcontracting Plans, in all correspondence.
Dated: July 30, 2015.
Jeffrey A. Koses,
Director, Office of Acquisition Policy, Senior Procurement Executive.
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