Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 789 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 789

 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

                            January 28, 2025

  Mr. Latimer (for himself, Mr. Alford, and Mr. Mfume) 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 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.

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 such solicitation, 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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