13 CFR §125.10

1. (a)Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, a Federal department or agency may not carry out a mentor-protégé program for small business unless the head of the department or agency submits a plan to the SBA Administrator for the program and the SBA Administrator approves the plan. Before starting a new mentor protégé program, the head of a department or agency must submit a plan to the SBA Administrator. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the head of a department or agency must submit a plan to the SBA for any previously existing mentor-protégé program that the department or agency seeks to continue.
2. (b)The SBA Administrator will approve or disapprove a plan submitted under paragraph (a) of this section based on whether the proposed program:
   1. (1)Will assist protégés to compete for Federal prime contracts and subcontracts; and
   2. (2)Complies with the provisions set forth in §§ 125.9 and 124.520 of this chapter, as applicable.
3. (c)Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to:
   1. (1)Any mentor-protégé program of the Department of Defense;
   2. (2)Any mentoring assistance provided under a Small Business Innovation Research Program or a Small Business Technology Transfer Program; and
   3. (3)A mentor-protégé program operated by a Department or agency on January 2, 2013, for a period of one year after the effective date of this section.
4. (d)The head of each Federal department or agency carrying out an agency-specific mentor-protégé program must report annually to SBA:
   1. (1)The participants (both protégé firms and their approved mentors) in its mentor-protégé program. This includes identifying the number of participants that are:
      1. (i)Small business concerns;
      2. (ii)Small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans;
      3. (iii)Small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals;
      4. (iv)Small business concerns owned and controlled by Indian tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, Native Hawaiian Organizations, and Community Development Corporations; and
      5. (v)Small business concerns owned and controlled by women;
   2. (2)The assistance provided to small businesses through the program; and
   3. (3)The progress of protégé firms under the program to compete for Federal prime contracts and subcontracts.