632.36—Procurement standards.
(a)
Native American grantees shall comply with the procurement systems and procedures found in 41 CFR 29-70.216, Procurement standards.
(b)
Subject to the Indian preference provisions of § 632.35(h), small and minority-owned businesses, including small businesses owned by women, within the service area of the Native American grantee, shall be provided maximum reasonable opportunity to compete for contracts for supplies and services. One means to provide for this is the use of set-asides.
(c)
No funds shall be paid by the Native American grantee to any organization for the conduct of programs under the Act unless:
(3)
It has not been seriously deficient in its conduct of, or participation in, any Department of Labor program in the past, or is not a successor organization to one that was seriously deficient in the past, unless the organization statisfactorily demonstrates that the deficiency has been or will be corrected and performance substantially improved; and