Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8014 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8014

 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
  issue rules for cancelled covered solicitations, to amend the Small 
Business Act to provide assistance to small business concerns relating 
      to certain cancelled solicitations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 16, 2024

 Mr. Mfume (for himself and Mr. Alford) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
  issue rules for cancelled covered solicitations, to amend the Small 
Business Act to provide assistance to small business concerns relating 
      to certain cancelled solicitations, 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 ``Transparency and Predictability in 
Small Business Opportunities Act''.

SEC. 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 to carry out the following actions:
            (1) Disclose 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 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, procedures for 
        the referral of a small business concern that prepared a bid 
        for such covered solicitation to the Director of Small and 
        Disadvantaged Business Utilization (as defined in section 15(k) 
        of the Small Business 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 governmentwide 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.

SEC. 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, assist such concern with identifying similar 
        contracting opportunities.''.

SEC. 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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