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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1410 
To amend the Small Business Act to require the implementation of a data 
quality improvement plan, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2015 
Mrs. RADEWAGEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to require the implementa-
tion of a data quality improvement plan, 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. AMENDMENTS TO DATA QUALITY IMPROVE-
MENT PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 15(s) of the Small Busi-
ness Act (15. U.S.C. 644(s)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (6); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing new paragraphs: 
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‘‘(4) 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. If the Adminis-
trator fails to implement the plan by such date, the 
Administrator may not exercise the authority under 
section 7(a)(25)(A) until the plan is implemented. 
‘‘(5) 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 
the Senate certification of the accuracy and com-
pleteness of data reported on bundled and consoli-
dated contracts.’’. 
(b) GAO STUDY.— 
(1) STUDY.—Not later than the first day of fis-
cal year 2018, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall initiate a study on the effective-
ness of the plan described in section 15(s) of the 
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(s)) that shall as-
sess whether contracts were accurately labeled as 
bundled or consolidated. 
(2) CONTRACTS
EVALUATED.—For the pur-
poses of conducting the study described in para-
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graph (1), the Comptroller General of the United 
States— 
(A) shall evaluate, for work in each of sec-
tors 23, 33, 54, and 56 (as defined by the 
North American Industry Classification Sys-
tem), not fewer than 100 contracts in each sec-
tor; 
(B) shall evaluate only those contracts— 
(i) awarded by an agency listed in sec-
tion 901(b) of title 31, United States 
Code; and 
(ii) that have a Base and Exercised 
Options Value, an Action Obligation, or a 
Base and All Options Value (as such terms 
are defined in the Federal procurement 
data system described in 41 U.S.C. 
1222(a)(4)(A), or any successor system); 
and 
(C) shall not evaluate contracts that have 
used any set aside authority. 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months after 
initiating the study required by subparagraph (A), 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall 
report to the Committee on Small Business of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
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Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate 
on the results from such study and, if warranted, 
any recommendations on how to improve the quality 
of data reported on bundled and consolidated con-
tracts. 
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