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113TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 113–409 

GREATER OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL BUSINESS ACT OF 

2014 

APRIL 9, 2014.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of 

the Union and ordered to be printed 

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, from the Committee on Small Business, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H.R. 4093] 

The Committee on Small Business, to whom was referred the bill 

(H.R. 4093) to amend the Small Business Act to raise the prime 

and subcontract goals, and for other purposes, having considered 

the same, report favorably thereon and recommend that the bill do 

pass. 

CONTENTS 

Page 

I. Amendment ................................................................................................. 1 

II. Purpose of the Bill and Summary ............................................................. 2 

III. Background and the Need for Legislation ................................................ 3 

IV. Hearings ....................................................................................................... 4 

V. Committee Consideration ........................................................................... 5 

VI. Committee Votes ......................................................................................... 5 

VII. Section-by-Section Analysis of H.R. 4093 .................................................. 8 

VIII. Unfunded Mandates .................................................................................... 9 

IX. New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax Expenditures 9 

X. Oversight Findings ...................................................................................... 9 

XI. Statement of Constitutional Authority ...................................................... 9 

XII. Congressional Accountability Act .............................................................. 9 

XIII. Federal Advisory Committee Statement ................................................... 10 

XIV. Statement of No Earmarks ........................................................................ 10 

XV. Statement of Duplication of Federal Programs ........................................ 10 

XVI. Disclosure of Directed Rule Makings ........................................................ 10 

XVII. Performance Goals and Objectives ............................................................ 10 

XVIII. Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ........................ 10 

I. AMENDMENT

The amendment is as follows: 


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1Originally, title II of the Act of July 30, 1953, c. 282, 67 Stat. 232 was designated as the 

Small Business Act of 1953. A plethora of amendments in subsequent Congresses led to a rewrite in 1958. Pub. L. No. 85–536, § 1, 72 Stat. 384 (1958). The Act is codified at 15 U.S.C. 

§§ 631–657s. 2The Act uses the term ‘‘small business concern.’’ However, this report will use the terms 

‘‘small business’’ and ‘‘small business concern’’ interchangeably unless the context requires a 

specific reference to the term ‘‘small business concern.’’ 3 If contract spending remains constant, this will result in approximately $10 billion in new 

contracts being awarded to small businesses each year, and if contract spending declines, it will 

ensure that small businesses are not the first to have their contracts cut. 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Greater Opportunities for Small Business Act of 

2014’’. 

SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS PRIME AND SUBCONTRACT PARTICIPATION GOALS RAISED. 

(a) GOALS IN SUBCONTRACTING PLANS.—Section 8(d)(6)(A) of the Small Business 

Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(6)(A)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘percentage goals’’ the following: ‘‘of not less than 40 percent’’. 

(b) PRIME CONTRACTING GOALS.—Section 15(g)(1)(A)(i) of the Small Business Act 

(15 U.S.C. 644(g)(1)(A)(i)) is amended by striking ‘‘23 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘25 percent’’. 

(c) DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) of this 

section shall take effect only beginning on the date on which the Administrator of 

the Small Business Administration has promulgated any regulations necessary, and 

the Federal Acquisition Regulation has been revised, to implement section 1614 of 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 and the amendments 

made by such section. 

SEC. 3. REPEAL OF CERTAIN PROVISION PERTAINING TO ACCOUNTING OF SUBCONTRACTORS. 

Section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)) is amended by striking 

paragraph (3). 

II. PURPOSE AND BILL SUMMARY

The purpose of H.R. 4093, the ‘‘Greater Opportunities for Small 

Business Act of 2014,’’ is to amend the Small Business Act (the 

Act) 1 to increase prime contracting and subcontracting opportunities for small businesses. Small business contractors bring necessary competition to the government marketplace, add innovation, 

and create new jobs. Contracting officers, however, generally prefer 

contractors with whom they have experience; typically, this preference hampers the ability of small businesses to obtain federal 

contracts. Thus, the top 100 contractors to the federal government 

routinely receive 25 percent of the total value of contracts awarded 

in a fiscal year, whereas the over 350,000 small businesses competing for federal contracts struggle to eclipse the 20 percent mark. 

This overreliance on a limited corps of contractors is not good for 

the industrial base, competition, innovation, job creation, or the 

needs of the federal government. 

H.R. 4093 seeks to promote small business contracting in three 

ways. First, it increases the prime contracting goal for small business concerns 2 from 23 percent of all federal prime contract dollars 

to 25 percent.3 Second, it establishes a government-wide small 

business subcontracting goal of 40 percent, which is necessary due 

to the continued decline in the administratively set goals for small 

businesses. Finally, it ensures that no department or agency is allowed to count subcontract awards toward the prime contracting 

goal. 


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4Small Business Act, § 15(a), 15 U.S.C. § 644(a). 

5 Id. 

6 Id. 

7This Act has no common name and is simply An Act of October 24, 1978. 

8Pub. L. No. 100–656, § 502, 102 Stat. 3853, 3881 (1988). 

9Pub. L. No. 105–135, § 603, 111 Stat. 2592, 2632 (1997). 

10Pub. L. No. 95–107, § 211, 92 Stat. 1757, 1767 (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 637(d)). 11 H.R. Rep. No. 95–949, at 5 (1978). 

III. NEED FOR LEGISLATION

The Act finds that awarding prime contracts to small businesses 

serves the nation in three ways. First, small business contracting 

is in ‘‘the interest of maintaining or mobilizing the Nation’s full 

productive capacity.’’ 4 Second, small business contracting is ‘‘in the 

interest of war or national defense programs.’’ 5 Third, it serves 

‘‘the interest of assuring that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the government 

in each industry category are placed with small-business concerns.’’ 6 To fulfill these three objectives, statutorily based small 

business goals have been used for approximately thirty-six years. 

Since the enactment of Public Law 95–507 7 in 1978, the SBA 

has been responsible for negotiating small business contracting and 

subcontracting goals with federal departments and agencies. A decade later, President Reagan signed the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988 (BODRA), which for the first time 

established a statutorily mandated government-wide small business goal of ‘‘not less than 20 percent of the total value of all prime 

contract awards for each Fiscal Year.’’ 8 This goal was increased to 

23 percent by the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997 

(SBRA). 9 According to the SBA, in Fiscal Year 2010, small businesses received 22.7 percent of all prime contract dollars, and the 

Federal Procurement Database currently indicates that the federal 

government surpassed the 23 percent prime contract goal in FY 

2013, with 23.4 percent of prime contract dollars. Therefore, this 

bill continues the work of the past 36 years by gradually increasing 

the goal to 25 percent. Each time the goal has previously been increased, small business contracting, with its inherent benefits, has 

increased. Additionally, given declines in federal contract spending, 

this expansion will protect small businesses against losing hardwon gains. Thus, after 17 years of a 23 percent goal, the bill will 

provide additional support for small business contractors. 

Public Law 95–507 also sought to increase subcontracting opportunities for small businesses by requiring that other-than-small 

businesses receiving prime contracts negotiate subcontracting plans 

with the federal government that would incorporate goals for the 

use of small businesses.10 According to Committee reports, this requirement was added because small businesses were receiving only 

37.5 percent of subcontract dollars.11 Since that time, it has been 

the responsibility of the SBA to establish a government-wide subcontracting goal. However, the current SBA-established goal is 35.9 

percent, a 1.6 percent decrease from the actual results thirty-seven 

years ago that spurred the creation of government-wide subcontracting goals. To prevent further backsliding, the bill establishes 

the government-wide goal at 40 percent, which like the rise in 

prime contract dollars represents the Committee’s incremental approach to reform, in this area. 


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12OFPP Policy Letter 91–1 (1991). 13See, e.g., Acquisition Regulation: Implementation of Section 3021 of the Energy Policy Act 

of 1992, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 60 Fed. Reg. 22,298, 22,302 (May 5, 1995). 14OFPP Policy Letter 99–1 (1999) rescinding OFPP Policy Letter 91–1. 15SBA, Department of Energy FY2012 Small Business Procurement Scorecard (2013) available at http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/FY12-Final-Scorecard-DOE-2013-06-24.pdf. 16 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, Pub. L. No. 113–76 Division D Title III, 318, ll Stat. lll, (2014) available at http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20140113/CPRT-113- 

HPRT-RU00-h3547-hamdt2samdtlxml.pdf. 17Small Business Act, § 15(a), 15 U.S.C. § 644(a). 18 Center for Security Policy, The National Defense Breakdown Economic Impact Report 

(2012) available at http://forthecommondefense.org/reports/National%202%20pager%20pdf.pdf. 

Finally, when the concept of goals was introduced through the 

1978 and 1988 legislation, none of the Congressional authors believed that the phrase ‘‘the total value of all prime contract awards 

for each fiscal year’’ needed further explanation. However, in 1991, 

the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) began permitting 12 the Department of Energy (DOE) to count subcontracts 

awarded by its management and operations (M&O) contractors as 

if they were prime contracts awarded by the DOE.13 This allowed 

DOE to count 18 percent of its prime contract dollars as being 

awarded to small businesses until 1999, when OFPP reversed its 

decision on the M&O contracts,14 and it became apparent that 

DOE had only been awarding 3 percent of its prime contract dollars to small businesses. Over a decade later, DOE has shown little 

inclination to change its contracting processes to allow for small 

business competition, and in FY 2012 awarded only 5.15 percent of 

its prime contract dollars to small business concerns.15

A provision was recently inserted in the Act to allow DOE to revert to its practice of counting M&O subcontracts towards the 

prime contracting goal.16 Authorizing an agency to count contracts 

towards the incorrect goal distorts the goaling process. Furthermore, the types of goods and services obtained through subcontracts are often not the same as those bought at the prime contract level, thus undermining Congress’ intent to ensure that a 

‘‘fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property 

and services for the government in each industry category are 

placed with small-business concerns.’’ 17

Ideally, the changes to the Act will result in $10 billion in new 

contracting opportunities for small businesses. However, based on 

President Obama’s projected defense spending cuts and cuts that 

may occur as a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, small 

business contracts at the Department of Defense (DoD) are expected to decrease.18 This does not account for spending cuts at civilian agencies, or the fact that contracting officers find it easier to 

cut small business contracts than those held by large businesses 

simply because small businesses lack the clout or resources to contest the decisions of contracting officers. If similar cuts occur at 

agencies other than DoD, the increased goal in this bill should simply mitigate the effect of the reduced contract spending. 

IV. HEARINGS

In the 112th Congress, the Committee held two hearings that examined the prime contract and subcontract goals. On September 

14, 2011, the Committee held a hearing titled, ‘‘Beyond the Size 

Standards: The Sustainability of Small Businesses Graduates.’’ At 

the hearing, witnesses testified that the small business goals are 


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not being met, that there are no consequences for this failure, and 

that the numbers being reported exclude approximately $100 billion in contracts. The Subcommittee on Contracting and the Workforce then met on October 6, 2011, for a hearing titled ‘‘Subpar 

Subcontracting: Challenges for Small Businesses Contractors.’’ In 

this hearing, the witnesses told the Committee about the declining 

subcontracting goals, and the lack of commitment to meeting the 

goals by agencies and some subcontractors. At each hearing, the 

small business witnesses and the trade associations representing 

them were adamant that the goals needed to be strengthened. 

Since H.R. 4093 is quite similar to H.R. 3850, passed out of Committee in the 112th Congress, the findings of the last Congress are 

still valid. As a result, no hearings were held on H.R. 4093 during 

the 113th Congress. 

V. COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION

The Committee on Small Business met in open session, with a 

quorum being present, on March 5, 2014 and ordered H.R. 4093 reported to the House by a voice vote at 2:24 pm. During the markup, two amendments were offered, neither of which was adopted. 

Disposition of the amendments is addressed below and is based on 

the order amendments were filed with the Clerk of the Committee 

and not necessarily in the order that they were considered at the 

markup. 

Amendment Number One filed by Ms. Chu (D–CA) raised the 

prime contracting goal for women-owned small businesses from 5 

percent to 6 percent. The amendment failed by a vote of 10 ayes 

to 12 nos at 2:16 pm. 

Amendment Number Two filed by Ms. Clarke (D–NY) raised the 

prime contracting goal for socially and economically disadvantaged 

businesses from 5 percent to 8 percent. The amendment failed by 

a vote of 10 ayes to 12 nos at 2:24 pm. 

VI. COMMITTEE VOTES

Clause 3(b) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives requires the Committee to list the recorded votes on the motion to report the legislation and amendments thereto. 


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FUll COMMITTEE ON SMAll BUSINESS 

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BILL: HR 4093 

DATE: March 5, 2014 

ROLLCALL: 1 

AMENDMENT NUMBER: 1 

VOTE: (AYE) 10 (NO) 12 

MEMBER 

Mr. GRAVES, Chairman 

Mr. CHABOT 

MR. KING 

MR.COFFMAN 

MR. LUETKEMEYER 

MR. MULVANEY 

MR. TIPTON 

MS. HERRERA BEUTLER 

MR. HANNA 

MR. HUELSKAMP 

MR. SCHWEIKERT 

MR. BENTIVOLIO 

MR. COLLINS 

MR. RICE 

MS. VELZAQUEZ, 

RANKING MEMBER 

MR. SCHRADER 

MS. CLARKE 

MS.CHU 

MS. HAHN 

MR. PAYNE, JR. 

MS.MENG 

MR. SCHNEIDER 

MR. BARBER 

MS. KUSTER 

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FULL COMMITIEE ON SMALL BUSINESS 

ROLL CALL 

BILL: HR 4093 

DATE: March 5, 2014 

ROLLCALL: 2 

AMENDMENT NUMBER: 2 

VOTE: (AYE) 10 (NO) 12 

MEMBER 

Mr. GRAVES, Chairman 

Mr. CHABOT 

MR. KING 

MR.COFFMAN 

MR. LUETKEMEYER 

MR. MULVANEY 

MR. TIPTON 

MS. HERRERA BEUTLER 

MR.HANNA 

MR. HUELSKAMP 

MR. SCHWEIKERT 

MR. BENTIVOLIO 

MR.COLLINS 

MR.RICE 

MS. VELZAQUEZ, 

RANKING MEMBER 

MR. SCHRADER 

MS. CLARKE 

MS.CHU 

MS. HAHN 

MR. PAYNE, JR. 

MS.MENG 

MR. SCHNEIDER 

MR.BARBER 

MS. KUSTER 

MR.MURPHY 

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VOTING 

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19SBA, Government-wide 2012 Small Business Procurement Scorecard (2013). Interestingly, 

in 2003, the goal was 40 percent. See also SBA, Goaling Guidelines for the Small Business Preference Programs for Prime and Subcontract Federal Procurement Goals and Achievements 6 

(2003). 20 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, Pub. L. No. 113–66 Title XVI Subtitle B § 1614 127 Stat. 672 (2013). 21While goals are normally apportioned on a contract-by-contract basis, they may also be negotiated at a division or corporate level if the company only sells commercial goods and services, 

as defined in 48 C.F.R § 2.101, and implemented in 48 C.F.R § 19.7, They may also be set at 

the division or corporate level for certain large DoD contractors pursuant to the Test Program 

for Negotiation of Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plans, as authorized in the 

VII. SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF H.R. 4093 

Section 1. Short title 

This Section designates the bill as the ‘‘Greater Opportunities for 

Small Business Act of 2014.’’ 

Section 2. Small business prime and subcontract participation goals 

raised 

Subsection (a) Goals in subcontracting plans 

Section 8(d)(6)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637 

§ (d)(6)(A)) currently requires that all prime contracts exceeding 

$650,000 ($1.5 million in the case of construction) that are awarded 

to firms that are other-than-small businesses include negotiated 

subcontracting plans addressing how the prime contractor will use 

small businesses. Specifically, it requires that covered prime contractors commit to making a good faith effort to award a certain 

percentage of subcontract dollars to small business concerns, and 

that they require the same of any other-than-small subcontractor 

receiving a subcontract in excess of the aforementioned thresholds. 

Subsection (a) amends section 8(d) to set a minimum subcontracting goal of at least 40 percent. This is necessary because the 

voluntary subcontracting goal established by the Executive Branch 

has been declining, from 40 percent in fiscal year 2003 to 33.6 percent in fiscal year 2012.19

Subsection (b)—Prime contracting goals 

Section 15(g)(1)(A)(i) of the Act currently requires the President 

to annually establish a government-wide goal of awarding at least 

23 percent of the total value of prime contracts awards for each fiscal year to small business concerns. This section increases the government-wide goal from 23 percent of the total value of prime contracts awards for each fiscal year to 25 percent of the total value 

of prime contract awards. It represents the first change in the percentage since 1997. This is necessary to encourage sustained or increased use of small businesses as federal spending decreases, and 

is further required by the growth of small businesses in the overall 

economy. 

Subsection (c)—Delayed effective date 

This section delays implementation of subsection (a) until after 

the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (Administrator) has promulgated regulations necessary to implement section 

1614 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2014 20 and the Federal Acquisition Regulation has been revised to 

reflect those changes. This will allow agencies to capture lower tier 

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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991, 103 Stat. 1352, Pub. L. 

101–189 Part E § 834, 103 Stat. 1352, 1509 (1989) and most recently reauthorized in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Pub. L. No. 112–81, Title VIII § 866, 125 

Stat. 1298, 1526 (2011). 

Section 3. Repeal of certain provision pertaining to accounting of 

subcontractors 

Section 15(g)(3) of the Act was amended in January 2014, to 

allow DOE to count small business subcontractors on M&O contracts towards its prime contract goals. Section 3 of the bill strikes 

this provision in order to maintain a clear delineation between 

prime and subcontracting goals. 

VIII. UNFUNDED MANDATES

H.R. 4093 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, Pub. L. 

No. 104–4, and would impose no costs on state, local or tribal governments. 

IX. NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY, ENTITLEMENT AUTHORITY AND TAX

EXPENDITURES

In compliance with clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 

House, the Committee provides the following opinion and estimate 

with respect to new budget authority, entitlement authority and 

tax expenditures. While the Committee has not received an estimate of new budget authority contained in the cost estimate prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office pursuant 

to § 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee 

does not believe that any additional appropriation will be required 

due to the enactment of H.R. 4093. H.R. 4093 does not direct new 

spending, but instead addresses the apportionment of current 

spending between small businesses and other-than-small businesses. 

X. OVERSIGHT FINDINGS

In accordance with clause (2)(b)(1) of rule X of the Rules of the 

House, the oversight findings and recommendations of the Committee on Small Business with respect to the subject matter contained in H.R. 4093 are incorporated into the descriptive portions 

of this report. 

XI. STATEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

Pursuant to clause 3(d)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 

of Representatives, the Committee finds that the authority for this 

legislation in Art. I, § 8, cls. 1, 3, and 18 and Art. IV, § 3, cl. 2 of 

the Constitution of the United States. 

XII. CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT

H.R. 4093 does not relate to the terms and conditions of employment or access to public services or accommodations within the 

meaning of § 102(b)(3) of Pub. L. No. 104–1. 


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XIII. FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT STATEMENT

H.R. 4093 does not establish or authorize the establishment of 

any new advisory committees as that term is defined in the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2. 

XIV. STATEMENT OF NO EARMARKS

Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XXI, H.R. 4093 does not contain any 

congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in subsections (d), (e) or (f) of clause 9 of rule XXI 

of the Rules of the House. 

XV. STATEMENT OF DUPLICATION OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS

Pursuant to clause 3(c) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House, 

no provision of H.R. 4093 establishes or reauthorizes a program of 

the federal government known to be duplicative of another Federal 

program, a program that was included in any report from the GAO 

pursuant to Section 21 of Public Law 111–139, or a program related to a program identified in the most recent Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance. 

XVI. DISCLOSURE OF DIRECTED RULE MAKINGS

Pursuant to clause 3(c) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House, 

H.R. 4093 does not direct any rulemaking. 

XVII. PERFORMANCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Pursuant to clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House, 

the Committee establishes the following performance-related goals 

and objectives for this legislation: 

H.R. 4093 includes a number of provisions designed to 

improve the competitive viability of small businesses as 

federal prime and subcontractors and to improve agency 

compliance with the Small Business Act. 

XVIII. CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED

In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 

House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, 

as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, 

existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman): 

SMALL BUSINESS ACT 

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SEC. 8. (a) * * * 

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(d)(1) * * * 

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(6) Each subcontracting plan required under paragraph (4) or (5) 

shall include— 

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ness concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, qualified HUBZone small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and small business concerns 

owned and controlled by women; 

* * * * * * * 

SEC. 15. (a) * * * 

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(g) 

(1) GOVERNMENTWIDE GOALS.— 

(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President shall annually establish Governmentwide goals for procurement contracts 

awarded to small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, 

qualified HUBZone small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and small business 

concerns owned and controlled by women in accordance 

with the following: 

(i) The Governmentwide goal for participation by 

small business concerns shall be established at not 

less than ø23 percent¿ 25 percent of the total value of 

all prime contract awards for each fiscal year. 

* * * * * * * 

ø(3) First tier subcontracts that are awarded by Management 

and Operating contractors sponsored by the Department of Energy 

to small business concerns, small businesses concerns owned and 

controlled by service disabled veterans, qualified HUBZone small 

business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled 

by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and small 

business concerns owned and controlled by women, shall be considered toward the annually established agency and Government-wide 

goals for procurement contracts awarded.¿ 

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