<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><BillSummaries>
    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="789" measure-id="id119hr789" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-28" update-date="2025-05-30">
        <title>Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr789v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-05-30">
            <action-date>2025-01-28</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue rules for disclosing information about federal contract solicitations for which small businesses were eligible and that were issued and cancelled.</p><p>Under the rules for&nbsp;such a solicitation, an agency must provide&nbsp;(1) a justification for the cancellation,&nbsp;(2) information about any plans to reissue the solicitation and any associated&nbsp;time frames,&nbsp;and (3) information about any plans to include the requirements of the solicitation in another contract or task order of the agency.</p><p>Additionally, for such solicitations that an agency does not intend to reissue, the SBA must provide procedures for the agency to refer a small business that prepared a bid for such covered solicitation to the&nbsp;Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization for assistance in identifying similar contracting opportunities.</p>]]></summary-text>
        </summary>
    </item>
    <dublinCore xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
        <dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
        <dc:language>EN</dc:language>
        <dc:rights>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.</dc:rights>
        <dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
        <dc:description>This file contains bill summaries 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.</dc:description>
    </dublinCore>
</BillSummaries>
