---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 1519.501"
title: "48"
number: "1519.501"
heading: "Review of acquisitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/1519.501"
---

# §1519.501. Review of acquisitions.

- (a) If no Small Business Administration (SBA) representative is available, the Small Business Specialist (SBS) shall initiate recommendations to the contracting officer for small business set-asides with respect to individual acquisitions or classes of acquisitions or portions thereof.
- (b) When the SBS has recommended that all, or a portion, of an individual acquisition or class of acquisitions be set aside for small business, the contracting officer shall:
  - (1) Promptly concur in the recommendation; or
  - (2) **Promptly disapprove the recommendation, stating in writing the reasons for disapproval.** If the contracting officer disapproves the recommendation of the SBS, the SBS may appeal to the appropriate appointing authority, whose decision shall be final.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 205(c), 63 Stat. 390, as amended, 40 U.S.C. 486(c).

### Source

Source: 82 FR 33019, July 19, 2017, unless otherwise noted.