I 
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 Adminis-
tration to develop and implement a plan to improve 
the quality of data reported on bundled and consolidated 
contracts, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Contracting Data and 
Bundling Accountability Act of 2014’’. 
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SEC. 2. PLAN FOR IMPROVING DATA ON BUNDLED AND 
CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTS. 
Section 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(s) DATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the first day 
of fiscal year 2016, the Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration, in consultation with the 
Small Business Procurement Advisory Council, the 
Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement 
Policy, and the Administrator of the General Serv-
ices Administration shall develop a plan to improve 
the quality of data reported on bundled and consoli-
dated contracts in the Federal procurement data 
system. 
‘‘(2) PLAN REQUIREMENTS.—The plan shall— 
‘‘(A) describe the roles and responsibilities 
of the Administrator of the Small Business Ad-
ministration, the Directors of the Offices of 
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, 
the Small Business Procurement Advisory 
Council, the Administrator of the Office of Fed-
eral Procurement Policy, the Administrator of 
the General Services Administration, the senior 
procurement executives, and Chief Acquisition 
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Officers in implementing the plan described in 
paragraph (1) and contributing to the annual 
report required by subsection (p)(4); 
‘‘(B) make necessary changes to policies 
and procedures on proper identification and 
mitigation of contract bundling and consolida-
tion, and to training procedures of relevant per-
sonnel on proper identification and mitigation 
of contract bundling and consolidation; 
‘‘(C) establish consequences for failure to 
properly identify contracts as bundled or con-
solidated; 
‘‘(D) establish requirements for periodic 
and statistically valid data verification and vali-
dation; and 
‘‘(E) assign clear data verification respon-
sibilities. 
‘‘(3) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than the 
first day of fiscal year 2017, the Administrator of 
the Small Business Administration shall implement 
the plan described in this subsection. 
‘‘(4) CERTIFICATION.—The Administrator shall 
annually provide to the Committee on Small Busi-
ness of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of 
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the Senate certification of the accuracy and com-
pleteness of data reported on bundled and consoli-
dated contracts. 
‘‘(5) GAO STUDY AND REPORT.— 
‘‘(A) STUDY.—Not later than the first day 
of fiscal year 2018, the Comptroller General of 
the United States shall initiate a study on the 
effectiveness of the plan described in this sub-
section that shall assess whether contracts were 
accurately labeled as bundled or consolidated. 
‘‘(B) CONTRACTS
EVALUATED.—For the 
purposes of conducting the study described in 
subparagraph (A), the Comptroller General of 
the United States— 
‘‘(i) shall evaluate, for work in each of 
sectors 23, 33, 54, and 56 (as defined by 
the North American Industry Classification 
System), not fewer than 100 contracts in 
each sector; 
‘‘(ii) shall evaluate only those con-
tracts— 
‘‘(I) awarded by an agency listed 
in section 901(b) of title 31, United 
States Code; and 
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‘‘(B) FEDERAL PROCUREMENT DATA SYS-
TEM DEFINITIONS.—The terms ‘Base and Ex-
ercised Options Value’, ‘Action Obligation’, 
‘Base and All Options Value’, and ‘set aside au-
thority’ have the meanings given such terms by 
the Administrator for Federal Procurement Pol-
icy in the Federal procurement data system on 
October 1, 2013, or subsequent equivalent 
terms.’’. 
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