3.0.0 673 2022-11-01T17:17:26Z 2022-11-01T17:17:26Z Senate S 2019-03-06 116 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2019-06-12T18:30:00Z Referred to 2019-03-06T17:39:05Z Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019 116 190 HR 2019-01-17 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Related bill CRS 2019-06-12 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Committee 2019-03-06 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. IntroReferral 2019-03-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2019-03-06 True 2019-03-26 D000622 Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] Tammy Duckworth D IL 2019-03-26 False Commerce Economic development Government studies and investigations Public contracts and procurement Small business Urban and suburban affairs and development Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Women in business Commerce 00 2019-03-06 Introduced in Senate 2019-11-04T13:33:56Z Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019

This bill modifies provisions regarding the inclusion of option years in the award price for certain sole source contracts (i.e., contracts awarded without a competitive process) by requiring the base and each of the option years of the award, if any, to be of similar value. Under current law, option years in the award price for such contracts limit their dollar award threshold.

Specifically, the bill revises requirements for the award of these contracts to (1) qualified Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small businesses, (2) small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, (3) economically disadvantaged small businesses owned and controlled by women, (4) small businesses owned and controlled by women in substantially underrepresented industries, and (5) qualified socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses.

The Government Accountability Office must evaluate the policies and practices used by the Small Business Administration and other federal agencies to ensure that contracting officers are properly classifying sole source contracts under procurement programs for businesses owned by women and disabled veterans in the Federal Procurement Data System.

]]> Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019 Display Title Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Small Business Act to eliminate the inclusion of option years in the award price for sole source contracts, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s673is/xml/BILLS-116s673is.xml 2019-06-12 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. 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.