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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8014 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 12, 2024 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and 

Entrepreneurship 

AN ACT 

To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to issue rules for cancelled covered solicitations, 

to amend the Small Business Act to provide assistance 

to small business concerns relating to certain cancelled 

solicitations, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transparency and Pre3 dictability in Small Business Opportunities Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RULES FOR 

5 CANCELLED COVERED SOLICITATIONS. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

7 date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 

8 the Small Business Administration shall issue rules to 

9 carry out the following actions: 

10 (1) Disclose information about a covered solici11 tation that was issued and cancelled that includes 

12 the following: 

13 (A) A justification for the cancellation of 

14 such covered solicitation. 

15 (B) Available information about any plans 

16 to reissue such covered solicitation and any as17 sociated timeframes for such reissuance. 

18 (C) Available information about any plans 

19 to include the requirements such covered solici20 tation in another contract or task order of the 

21 Federal agency. 

22 (2) With respect to a cancelled covered solicita23 tion which the Federal agency does not intend to re24 issue, procedures for the referral of a small business 

25 concern that prepared a bid for such covered solici26 tation to the Director of Small and Disadvantaged 


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1 Business Utilization (as defined in section 15(k) of 

2 the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(k))) of the 

3 Federal agency for assistance in identifying similar 

4 contracting opportunities. 

5 (b) PUBLICATION.—The information required under 

6 subsection (a) shall be made publicly accessible on the sin7 gle governmentwide point of entry described under section 

8 1708 of title 41, United States Code. 

9 (c) COVERED SOLICITATION DEFINED.—The term 

10 ‘‘covered solicitation’’ means a solicitation of a Federal 

11 agency for a procurement for which two or more small 

12 business concerns were eligible to submit a bid. 

13 SEC. 3. DUTIES FOR DIRECTORS OF OFFICES OF SMALL 

14 AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZA15 TION RELATING TO CERTAIN CANCELLED SO16 LICITATIONS. 

17 Section 15(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 

18 644(k)) is amended— 

19 (1) in paragraph (21), by striking the period at 

20 the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

21 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

22 paragraph: 

23 ‘‘(22) shall, when notified by a small business 

24 concern that a Federal agency cancelled a solicita25 tion for which such concern prepared a bid and such 


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1 Federal agency does not intend to reissue, assist 

2 such concern with identifying similar contracting op3 portunities.’’. 

4 SEC. 4. COMPLIANCE WITH CUTGO. 

5 No additional amounts are authorized to be appro6 priated to carry out this Act or the amendments made 

7 by this Act. 

Passed the House of Representatives June 11, 2024. 

Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 

Clerk. 


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