(a) Mentor or protégé firms, may voluntarily withdraw from the Mentor-Protégé Program. However, such withdrawal will not impact the program mission and contract requirements under the prime contract.
(b) At the conclusion of each year in the Mentor-Protégé Program, the prime contractor and protégé must formally brief the Department of the Treasury team regarding program accomplishments as pertains to the approved agreement. Individual briefings may be conducted, at the request of either party. Treasury will evaluate these reports by considering the following:
(1) Specific actions taken by the mentor, during the evaluation period, to increase the participation of protégé as suppliers to the Federal government and to commercial entities;
(2) Specific actions taken by the mentor, during the evaluation period, to develop the technical and corporate administrative expertise of a protégé as defined in the agreement;
(3) To what extent the protégé has met the developmental objectives in the agreement; and,
(4) To what extent the mentor firm's participation in the Mentor-Protégé Program resulted in the protégé receiving contract(s) and subcontract(s) from private firms and agencies other than the Department of the Treasury.
(c) Mentor and protégé firms must submit an evaluation to the OSBD at the conclusion of the mutually agreed upon program period, the conclusion of the contract, or the voluntary withdrawal by either party from the Mentor-Protégé Program, whichever comes first.
