[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4332 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4332

 To amend the Small Business Act to clarify the duties of procurement 
 center representatives with respect to reviewing solicitations for a 
                    contract or task order contract.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 2016

   Mr. Kelly of Mississippi 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 clarify the duties of procurement 
 center representatives with respect to reviewing solicitations for a 
                    contract or task order contract.

    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 ``Maximizing Small Business 
Competition Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. DUTIES OF PROCUREMENT CENTER REPRESENTATIVES WITH RESPECT TO 
              REVIEWING SOLICITATIONS FOR A CONTRACT OR TASK ORDER 
              CONTRACT.

    Section 15(l)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(l)(2)(D)) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) through (I) as 
        subparagraphs (F) through (J), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(E) review any solicitation for a contract or 
                task order without regard to whether the contract or 
                task order or part of the contract or task order is set 
                aside for small business concerns, whether 1 or more 
                contract or task order awards are reserved for small 
                business concerns under a multiple award contract, or 
                whether or not the solicitation would result in a 
                bundled or consolidated contract (as defined in 
                subsection (s)) or a bundled or consolidated task 
                order;''.
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