Are there contracts that are exempt from the requirements of EO 13496?
Yes. There are specific types of contracts that are exempt from the Order. They are: Federal-sector collective bargaining agreements; contracts for work performed exclusively outside the territorial United States; prime contracts that involve purchases below the simplified acquisition threshold, (currently $100,000); contracts resulting from solicitations issued prior to the effective date of the regulations (June 21, 2010); and subcontracts below $10,000. In addition, the Director of Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS), with whom OFCCP shares enforcement authority, has the authority to exempt a contracting agency or group of contracting agencies from the requirements of the Order with respect to a specific contract or class of contracts, when the Director finds that it is necessary or in the national interest to do so.
