Small Business Contractor's Clarification Act of 2015

Small Business Contractor's Clarification Act of 2015

This bill amends the Small Business Act to revise the federal procurement requirements of the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) with respect to small business contracts for articles, equipment, supplies, services or materials, or to perform construction work for the government.

The permission to submit an offer for a procurement contract, even though the offeror is not the actual manufacturer or processor of the product in question, is extended to additional kinds of small businesses, including:

• women-owned small businesses;
• HUBZone small businesses, and
• small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.

Contracts whose principal purpose is acquisition of services or construction are exempt from this Act.

Limitations on SBA subcontracting are revised to require contracts that are principally for supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies, and that are not contracts principally for services or construction, to supply the product of a domestic small business manufacturer or processor, unless a waiver is granted by the Administrator under specified conditions.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1583 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1583

To amend the Small Business Act to clarify the requirements related to 
     small business contracts for services, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2015

  Mr. Hardy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Small Business Act to clarify the requirements related to 
     small business contracts for services, 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 ``Small Business Contractor's 
Clarification Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO SMALL BUSINESS 
              CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES.

    (a) Procurement Contracts.--Section 8(a)(17) of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(17)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``any procurement 
        contract'' and all that follows through ``section 15'' and 
        inserting ``any procurement contract, which contract has as its 
        principal purpose the supply of a product to be let pursuant to 
        this subsection or subsection (m), or section 15(a), 31, or 
        36,''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(C) Limitation.--This paragraph shall not apply to a 
        contract that has as its principal purpose the acquisition of 
        services or construction.''.
    (b) Subcontractor Contracts.--Section 46(a)(4) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657s(a)(4)) is amended by striking ``for 
supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies'' and inserting ``which 
is principally for supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies, and 
which is not a contract principally for services or construction''.
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