3.0.0 1590 2023-01-11T13:22:17Z 2023-01-11T13:22:17Z Senate S S 2011-09-21 112 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-09-21T20:34:23Z 2011-09-21 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. IntroReferral 2011-09-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO N Commerce Administrative law and regulatory procedures Manufacturing Public contracts and procurement Small Business Administration Small business Commerce 00 2011-09-21 Introduced in Senate 2011-11-15T19:47:46Z Fairness for Small Businesses in Federal Contracting Act of 2011 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a new classification system for industries for purposes of determining whether businesses meet the small business size standards established herein that replaces the North American Industrial Classification System.

Requires: (1) the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be amended to integrate the new system, and (2) the Administrator of General Services to integrate the new system into the Integrated Acquisition Environment.

Directs the SBA Administrator to: (1) eliminate the nonmanufacturer exception to small business size determinations, (2) require contracting officers to use the size standard established for retail and wholesale industries in federal procurements for products and services that are not manufactured by the offeror, and (3) require such officers to use only SBA size standards for manufacturing industries if the federal government issues a contract for the purchase of a product or good that is manufactured by the offeror.

]]> Fairness for Small Businesses in Federal Contracting Act of 2011 Display Title Fairness for Small Businesses in Federal Contracting Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to develop a new classification system for small business size determinations and to promulgate rules to eliminate the nonmanufacturer exception to small business size determinations, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Fairness for Small Businesses in Federal Contracting Act of 2011 Introduced in Senate 2011-09-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1590is/xml/BILLS-112s1590is.xml 2011-09-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.