Contracting Data and Bundling Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to develop a plan to improve the quality of data reported on bundled and consolidated contracts in the federal procurement data system.
Requires the plan to: (1) describe the roles and responsibilities of the Administrator, the Directors of the Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, the Small Business Procurement Advisory Council, the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the Administrator of the General Services Administration, the senior procurement executives, and Chief Acquisition Officers in implementing the plan and contributing to the annual report; (2) make necessary changes to policies and procedures on proper identification and mitigation of contract bundling and consolidation, and to training procedures of relevant personnel on proper identification and mitigation of contract bundling and consolidation; (3) establish consequences for failure to properly identify contracts as bundled or consolidated; (4) establish requirements for periodic and statistically valid data verification and validation; and (5) assign clear data verification responsibilities. Requires the finalized plan to be presented to the House and Senate small business committees by not later than 90 days prior to implementation.
Directs the Administrator to: (1) implement the plan by the first day of FY2017, and (2) annually provide to such committees certification of the accuracy and completeness of data reported on bundled and consolidated contracts.
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO): (1) to initiate a study by the first day of FY2018 on the effectiveness of the plan that shall assess whether contracts were accurately labeled as bundled or consolidated; and (2) not later than 12 months after initiating the study, to report to the small business committees on the results from such study and, if warranted, any recommendations on how to improve the quality of data reported on bundled and consolidated contracts.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4094 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4094
To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to
develop and implement a plan to improve the quality of data reported on
bundled and consolidated contracts, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 26, 2014
Mr. Graves of Missouri introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Small Business
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A BILL
To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to
develop and implement a plan to improve the quality of data reported on
bundled and consolidated contracts, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Contracting Data and Bundling
Accountability Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. PLAN FOR IMPROVING DATA ON BUNDLED AND CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTS.
Section 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644) is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(s) Data Quality Improvement Plan.--
``(1) In general.--Not later than the first day of fiscal
year 2016, the Administrator of the Small Business
Administration, in consultation with the Small Business
Procurement Advisory Council, the Administrator of the Office
of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Administrator of the
General Services Administration shall develop a plan to improve
the quality of data reported on bundled and consolidated
contracts in the Federal procurement data system.
``(2) Plan requirements.--The plan shall--
``(A) describe the roles and responsibilities of
the Administrator of the Small Business Administration,
the Directors of the Offices of Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization, the Small Business Procurement
Advisory Council, the Administrator of the Office of
Federal Procurement Policy, the Administrator of the
General Services Administration, the senior procurement
executives, and Chief Acquisition Officers in
implementing the plan described in paragraph (1) and
contributing to the annual report required by
subsection (p)(4);
``(B) make necessary changes to policies and
procedures on proper identification and mitigation of
contract bundling and consolidation, and to training
procedures of relevant personnel on proper
identification and mitigation of contract bundling and
consolidation;
``(C) establish consequences for failure to
properly identify contracts as bundled or consolidated;
``(D) establish requirements for periodic and
statistically valid data verification and validation;
and
``(E) assign clear data verification
responsibilities.
``(3) Implementation.--Not later than the first day of
fiscal year 2017, the Administrator of the Small Business
Administration shall implement the plan described in this
subsection.
``(4) Certification.--The Administrator shall annually
provide to the Committee on Small Business of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship of the Senate certification of the accuracy
and completeness of data reported on bundled and consolidated
contracts.
``(5) GAO study and report.--
``(A) Study.--Not later than the first day of
fiscal year 2018, the Comptroller General of the United
States shall initiate a study on the effectiveness of
the plan described in this subsection that shall assess
whether contracts were accurately labeled as bundled or
consolidated.
``(B) Contracts evaluated.--For the purposes of
conducting the study described in subparagraph (A), the
Comptroller General of the United States--
``(i) shall evaluate, for work in each of
sectors 23, 33, 54, and 56 (as defined by the
North American Industry Classification System),
not fewer than 100 contracts in each sector;
``(ii) shall evaluate only those
contracts--
``(I) awarded by an agency listed
in section 901(b) of title 31, United
States Code; and
``(II) that have a Base and
Exercised Options Value, an Action
Obligation, or a Base and All Options
Value; and
``(iii) shall not evaluate contracts that
have used any set aside authority.
``(C) Report.--Not later than 12 months after
initiating the study required by subparagraph (A), the
Comptroller General of the United States shall report
to the Committee on Small Business of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship of the Senate on the results from such
study and, if warranted, any recommendations on how to
improve the quality of data reported on bundled and
consolidated contracts.
``(6) Definitions.--In this subsection the following
definitions shall apply:
``(A) Chief acquisition officer; senior procurement
executive.--The terms `Chief Acquisition Officer' and
`senior procurement executive' have the meanings given
such terms in section 44 of this Act.
``(B) Federal procurement data system
definitions.--The terms `Base and Exercised Options
Value', `Action Obligation', `Base and All Options
Value', and `set aside authority' have the meanings
given such terms by the Administrator for Federal
Procurement Policy in the Federal procurement data
system on October 1, 2013, or subsequent equivalent
terms.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 113-410.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 113-410.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 302.
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