[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3638 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3638

To revise postaward explanations for unsuccessful offerors for certain 
    contracts in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2019

 Ms. Houlahan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To revise postaward explanations for unsuccessful offerors for certain 
    contracts in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, 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 Acquisition 
Transparency Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. POSTAWARD EXPLANATIONS FOR UNSUCCESSFUL OFFERORS FOR CERTAIN 
              CONTRACTS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be revised to require 
that with respect to an offer for a task order or delivery order in an 
amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold (as defined in 
section 134 of title 41, United States Code) and less than or equal to 
$5,500,000 issued under an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity 
contract, the contracting officer for such contract shall, upon written 
request from an unsuccessful offeror, provide a brief explanation as to 
why such offeror was unsuccessful that includes a summary of the 
rationale for the award and an evaluation of the significant weak or 
deficient factors in the offeror's offer.
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