In plain English
FAR 52.219-4, Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns, is a contract clause prescribed at FAR 19.130, most recently dated Oct 2022. The complete official text is reproduced below, verbatim, from GSA's published FAR source files.
Its text contains no sentence requiring insertion into subcontracts; see the flowdown section below for what that does and does not mean.
Does it flow down to subcontracts?
No flowdown mandate found in the clause text
We scanned the full clause text and found no sentence directing the contractor to insert this clause into subcontracts. That is a statement about the text, not legal advice: a prime contractor may still flow terms down contractually, an agency supplement (DFARS, VAAR, …) may add requirements, and clauses listed below (if any) may order this clause into subcontracts from the outside.
Where it's prescribed
As prescribed in 19.1309(b), insert the following clause:
Prescribing reference: FAR 19.130.
The official text, verbatim
As prescribed in 19.1309(b), insert the following clause:
Notice of Price Evaluation preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns (Oct 2022)
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(a) Evaluation preference.
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(1) Offers will be evaluated by adding a factor of 10 percent to the price of all offers, except-
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(i) Offers from HUBZone small business concerns that have not waived the evaluation preference; and
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(ii) Otherwise successful offers from small business concerns.
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(2) The factor of 10 percent shall be applied on a line item basis or to any group of items on which award may be made. Other evaluation factors described in the solicitation shall be applied before application of the factor.
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(3) When the two highest rated offerors are a HUBZone small business concern and a large business, and the evaluated offer of the HUBZone small business concern is equal to the evaluated offer of the large business after considering the price evaluation preference, award will be made to the HUBZone small business concern.
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(b) Waiver of evaluation preference. A HUBZone small business concern may elect to waive the evaluation preference, in which case the factor will be added to its offer for evaluation purposes.
□ Offeror elects to waive the evaluation preference.
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(c) Joint venture. A HUBZone joint venture agrees that, in the performance of the contract, at least 40 percent of the aggregate work performed by the joint venture shall be completed by the HUBZone small business parties to the joint venture. Work performed by the HUBZone small business parties to the joint venture must be more than administrative functions.
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