[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1390 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1390

 To amend the Small Business Act to modify the requirements for joint 
  venture offers for bundled or consolidated contracts, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2015

  Mr. Knight introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Small Business Act to modify the requirements for joint 
  venture offers for bundled or consolidated contracts, 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 ``Small Business Joint Venturing Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. JOINT VENTURE OFFERS FOR BUNDLED OR CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTS.

    Section 15(e)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(e)(4)) is 
amended to read as follows:
            ``(4) Contract teaming.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In the case of a solicitation of 
                offers for a bundled or consolidated contract that is 
                issued by the head of an agency, a small business 
                concern may submit an offer that provides for use of a 
                particular team of subcontractors or a joint venture of 
                small business concerns for the performance of the 
                contract.
                    ``(B) Evaluation of offers.--The head of the agency 
                shall evaluate the offer of a team or a joint venture 
                of small business concerns in the same manner as other 
                offers, with due consideration to the capabilities of 
                all of the proposed subcontractors or members of the 
                joint venture as follows:
                            ``(i) Teams.--When evaluating an offer of a 
                        small business prime contractor whose offer 
                        includes a proposed team of small business 
                        subcontractors, the head of the agency shall 
                        consider the capabilities and past performance 
                        of each first tier subcontractor that is part 
                        of the team as the capabilities and past 
                        performance of the team.
                            ``(ii) Joint ventures.--When evaluating an 
                        offer of a joint venture of small business 
                        concerns, if the joint venture does not have 
                        sufficient capabilities or past performance to 
                        be considered for award of a contract 
                        opportunity, the head of the agency shall 
                        consider the capabilities and past performance 
                        of each member of the joint venture as the 
                        capabilities past performance of the joint 
                        venture.
                    ``(C) Status as a small business concern.--
                Participation of a small business concern in a team or 
                a joint venture under this paragraph shall not affect 
                the status of that concern as a small business concern 
                for any other purpose.''.

SEC. 3. TEAM AND JOINT VENTURES OFFERS FOR MULTIPLE AWARD CONTRACTS.

    Section 15(q)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(q)(1))--
            (1) in the heading, by inserting ``and joint venture'' 
        before ``requirements'';
            (2) by striking ``Each Federal agency'' and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) In general.--Each Federal agency''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(B) Teams.--When evaluating an offer of a small 
                business prime contractor whose offer includes a 
                proposed team of small business subcontractors for any 
                multiple award contract above the substantial bundling 
                threshold of the Federal agency, the head of the agency 
                shall consider the capabilities and past performance of 
                each first tier subcontractor that is part of the team 
                as the capabilities and past performance of the 
                offeror.
                    ``(C) Joint ventures.--When evaluating an offer of 
                a joint venture of small business concerns for any 
                multiple award contract above the substantial bundling 
                threshold of the Federal agency, if the joint venture 
                does not have sufficient capabilities or past 
                performance to be considered for award of a contract 
                opportunity, the head of the agency shall consider the 
                capabilities and past performance of each member of the 
                joint venture as the capabilities and past performance 
                of the joint venture.''.

SEC. 4. RULEMAKING.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall issue any 
regulations necessary to carry out the amendments made by this Act.
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