EP 1180-1-1
1 Aug 01
7-3. Pre-Award Clearance From the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. If the
estimated amount of the proposed service contract or subcontract is million or more, the contracting
officer shall request clearance from the appropriate Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
(OFCCP) regional office for the award of any contract, including any indefinite delivery contract or letter
contract; or the modification of an existing contract for new effort that would constitute a contract award.
Such clearance may be obtained as described below.
a. The OFCCP has established an on-line registry to facilitate procurement of the pre-award
clearance. The registry provides information concerning Federal Contractors that have been reviewed by
the OFCCP. These Federal Contractors have been found to be "In Compliance" with the Equal
Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulations that the OFCCP is mandated to enforce. The information
contained in this Registry covers a two year period prior to the date of search. The Registry is updated
nightly and facilities reviewed more than 2 years ago are removed as new ones are added. This system
provides information only for the specific Contractor Facility(s) requested. It does not provide information
on the Parent Organization or other facility locations that have not been reviewed within the past two
years. If a given facility is found to be "In Compliance", this does not imply that other sibling facilities
under the same parent organization received the same favorable finding. USACE personnel tasked with
ensuring that prospective contractors have been found to be "In Compliance" should first check the
OFCCP's on-line Pre-award Registry at
http://www.dol-esa.gov/preaward/. If the Contractor
Facility in question is not found in this Registry, USACE personnel should contact the appropriate
OFCCP Pre-Award Clearance Officer in their Regional area. Questions concerning the appropriate
OFCCP Regional Office, USACE personnel may contact the OFCCP National Office, in Washington D.
C., at area code (202) 693-0110. Preaward clearance for each proposed contract and for each
proposed first-tier subcontract of million or more shall be requested by the contracting officer directly
from the OFCCP regional office(s). Verbal requests shall be confirmed by letter or facsimile transmission.
b. When the contract work is to be performed outside the United States with employees
recruited within the United States, the contracting officer shall send the request for a preaward
clearance to the OFCCP regional office serving the area where the proposed contractor's
corporate home or branch office is located in the United States, or the corporate location where
personnel recruiting is handled, if different from the contractor's corporate home or branch office.
If the proposed contractor has no corporate office or location within the United States, the
preaward clearance request action should be based on the location of the recruiting and training
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