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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4094 

To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to develop 

and implement a plan to improve the quality of data reported on bundled 

and consolidated contracts, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 26, 2014 

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri introduced the following bill; which was referred to 

the Committee on Small Business 

A BILL 

To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to develop and implement a plan to improve 

the quality of data reported on bundled and consolidated 

contracts, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Contracting Data and 

5 Bundling Accountability Act of 2014’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PLAN FOR IMPROVING DATA ON BUNDLED AND 

2 CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTS. 

3 Section 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644) 

4 is amended by adding at the end the following new sub5 section: 

6 ‘‘(s) DATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN.— 

7 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the first day 

8 of fiscal year 2016, the Administrator of the Small 

9 Business Administration, in consultation with the 

10 Small Business Procurement Advisory Council, the 

11 Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement 

12 Policy, and the Administrator of the General Serv13 ices Administration shall develop a plan to improve 

14 the quality of data reported on bundled and consoli15 dated contracts in the Federal procurement data 

16 system. 

17 ‘‘(2) PLAN REQUIREMENTS.—The plan shall— 

18 ‘‘(A) describe the roles and responsibilities 

19 of the Administrator of the Small Business Ad20 ministration, the Directors of the Offices of 

21 Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, 

22 the Small Business Procurement Advisory 

23 Council, the Administrator of the Office of Fed24 eral Procurement Policy, the Administrator of 

25 the General Services Administration, the senior 

26 procurement executives, and Chief Acquisition 


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1 Officers in implementing the plan described in 

2 paragraph (1) and contributing to the annual 

3 report required by subsection (p)(4); 

4 ‘‘(B) make necessary changes to policies 

5 and procedures on proper identification and 

6 mitigation of contract bundling and consolida7 tion, and to training procedures of relevant per8 sonnel on proper identification and mitigation 

9 of contract bundling and consolidation; 

10 ‘‘(C) establish consequences for failure to 

11 properly identify contracts as bundled or con12 solidated; 

13 ‘‘(D) establish requirements for periodic 

14 and statistically valid data verification and vali15 dation; and 

16 ‘‘(E) assign clear data verification respon17 sibilities. 

18 ‘‘(3) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than the 

19 first day of fiscal year 2017, the Administrator of 

20 the Small Business Administration shall implement 

21 the plan described in this subsection. 

22 ‘‘(4) CERTIFICATION.—The Administrator shall 

23 annually provide to the Committee on Small Busi24 ness of the House of Representatives and the Com25 mittee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of 


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1 the Senate certification of the accuracy and com2 pleteness of data reported on bundled and consoli3 dated contracts. 

4 ‘‘(5) GAO STUDY AND REPORT.— 

5 ‘‘(A) STUDY.—Not later than the first day 

6 of fiscal year 2018, the Comptroller General of 

7 the United States shall initiate a study on the 

8 effectiveness of the plan described in this sub9 section that shall assess whether contracts were 

10 accurately labeled as bundled or consolidated. 

11 ‘‘(B) CONTRACTS EVALUATED.—For the 

12 purposes of conducting the study described in 

13 subparagraph (A), the Comptroller General of 

14 the United States— 

15 ‘‘(i) shall evaluate, for work in each of 

16 sectors 23, 33, 54, and 56 (as defined by 

17 the North American Industry Classification 

18 System), not fewer than 100 contracts in 

19 each sector; 

20 ‘‘(ii) shall evaluate only those con21 tracts— 

22 ‘‘(I) awarded by an agency listed 

23 in section 901(b) of title 31, United 

24 States Code; and 


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1 ‘‘(II) that have a Base and Exer2 cised Options Value, an Action Obli3 gation, or a Base and All Options 

4 Value; and 

5 ‘‘(iii) shall not evaluate contracts that 

6 have used any set aside authority. 

7 ‘‘(C) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months 

8 after initiating the study required by subpara9 graph (A), the Comptroller General of the 

10 United States shall report to the Committee on 

11 Small Business of the House of Representatives 

12 and the Committee on Small Business and En13 trepreneurship of the Senate on the results 

14 from such study and, if warranted, any rec15 ommendations on how to improve the quality of 

16 data reported on bundled and consolidated con17 tracts. 

18 ‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection the fol19 lowing definitions shall apply: 

20 ‘‘(A) CHIEF ACQUISITION OFFICER; SEN21 IOR PROCUREMENT EXECUTIVE.—The terms 

22 ‘Chief Acquisition Officer’ and ‘senior procure23 ment executive’ have the meanings given such 

24 terms in section 44 of this Act. 


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1 ‘‘(B) FEDERAL PROCUREMENT DATA SYS2 TEM DEFINITIONS.—The terms ‘Base and Ex3 ercised Options Value’, ‘Action Obligation’, 

4 ‘Base and All Options Value’, and ‘set aside au5 thority’ have the meanings given such terms by 

6 the Administrator for Federal Procurement Pol7 icy in the Federal procurement data system on 

8 October 1, 2013, or subsequent equivalent 

9 terms.’’. 

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