IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 789 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 4, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship 
AN ACT 
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Adminis-
tration 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transparency and Pre-
dictability in Small Business Opportunities Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RULES FOR 
CANCELLED COVERED SOLICITATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 
the Small Business Administration shall issue rules as fol-
lows: 
(1) Requiring disclosure of information about a 
covered solicitation that was issued and cancelled 
that includes the following: 
(A) A justification for the cancellation of 
such covered solicitation. 
(B) Available information about any plans 
to reissue such covered solicitation and any as-
sociated timeframes for such reissuance. 
(C) Available information about any plans 
to include the requirements of such covered so-
licitation in another contract or task order of 
the Federal agency. 
(2) With respect to a cancelled covered solicita-
tion which the Federal agency does not intend to re-
issue, establishing procedures for the referral of a 
small business concern (as defined under section 3 
of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)) that 
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prepared a bid for such covered solicitation to the 
Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utili-
zation (as defined in section 15(k) of such Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(k))) of the Federal agency for assistance 
in identifying similar contracting opportunities. 
(b) PUBLICATION.—The information required under 
subsection (a) shall be made publicly accessible on the sin-
gle, Government-wide point of entry described under sec-
tion 1708 of title 41, United States Code. 
(c) COVERED SOLICITATION DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘covered solicitation’’ means a solicitation 
of a Federal agency for a procurement for which two or 
more small business concerns were eligible to submit a bid. 
SEC. 3. DUTIES FOR DIRECTORS OF OFFICES OF SMALL 
AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZA-
TION RELATING TO CERTAIN CANCELLED SO-
LICITATIONS. 
Section 15(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
644(k)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (21), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(22) shall, when notified by a small business 
concern that a Federal agency cancelled a solicita-
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tion for which such concern prepared a bid and such 
Federal agency does not intend to reissue such solic-
itation, assist such concern with identifying similar 
contracting opportunities.’’. 
SEC. 4. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED. 
No additional funds are authorized to carry out the 
requirements of this Act and the amendments made by 
this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 3, 2025. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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