Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be called the Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act .
2Small Business Administration rules for cancelled covered solicitations
This section would require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to issue rules within 180 days after the Act becomes law. A covered solicitation means a Federal agency's solicitation for a procurement for which two or more small business concerns were eligible to submit a bid. The rules would require disclosure of information about a covered solicitation that a Federal agency issued and then cancelled, including a justification for the cancellation, any available information about plans to reissue the solicitation and the expected timeframe for doing so, and any available information about plans to include the solicitation's requirements in another contract or task order of the agency. For a cancelled covered solicitation that the agency does not intend to reissue, the rules would also have to set up procedures for referring a small business concern that had prepared a bid for that solicitation to the agency's Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, so the Director can assist the concern with identifying similar contracting opportunities. All of the information required to be disclosed would have to be made publicly accessible through the single, government-wide point of entry described in section 1708 of title 41 of the United States Code.
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2. Small Business Administration rules for cancelled covered solicitations (a) In general Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall issue rules as follows: (1) Requiring disclosure of information about a covered solicitation that was issued and cancelled that includes the following: (A) A justification for the cancellation of such covered solicitation. (B) Available information about any plans to reissue such covered solicitation and any associated timeframes for such reissuance. (C) Available information about any plans to include the requirements of such covered solicitation in another contract or task order of the Federal agency. (2) With respect to a cancelled covered solicitation which the Federal agency does not intend to reissue, establishing procedures for the referral of a small business concern (as defined under section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 )) that prepared a bid for such covered solicitation to the Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (as defined in section 15(k) of such Act ( 15 U.S.C. 644(k) )) of the Federal agency for assistance in identifying similar contracting opportunities. (b) Publication The information required under subsection (a) shall be made publicly accessible on the single, Government-wide point of entry described under section 1708 of title 41, United States Code. (c) Covered solicitation defined The term covered solicitation means a solicitation of a Federal agency for a procurement for which two or more small business concerns were eligible to submit a bid.
3Duties for Directors of Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization relating to certain cancelled solicitations
This section would amend section 15(k) of the Small Business Act, which lists the duties of each Federal agency's Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, to add a new duty. Under the new duty, when a small business concern notifies the Director that a Federal agency cancelled a solicitation for which the concern had prepared a bid, and the agency does not intend to reissue that solicitation, the Director would have to assist the concern with identifying similar contracting opportunities.
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3. Duties for Directors of Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization relating to certain cancelled solicitations Section 15(k) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 644(k) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (21), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (22) shall, when notified by a small business concern that a Federal agency cancelled a solicitation for which such concern prepared a bid and such Federal agency does not intend to reissue such solicitation, assist such concern with identifying similar contracting opportunities. .
4Compliance with CUTGO
This section would state that no additional amounts are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act or the amendments made by this Act.
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4. Compliance with CUTGO No additional amounts are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act or the amendments made by this Act.
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