I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4118 
To amend the Small Business Act to provide for increased small business 
participation in multiple award contracts, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 1, 2012 
Mr. CRITZ (for himself, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. CICILLINE, and Ms. HAHN) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small 
Business, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Govern-
ment Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to provide for increased 
small business participation in multiple award 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 ‘‘Small Business Pro-
curement Improvement Act of 2012’’. 
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SEC. 2. INCREASING SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN 
MULTIPLE AWARD CONTRACTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 15(r) of the Small Busi-
ness Act (15 U.S.C. 644(r)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘may, at their discretion’’ and 
inserting the following: ‘‘shall, to the maximum ex-
tent practicable, include small business concerns in 
multiple award contracts, as defined in section 3(v) 
of this Act, including’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘set’’ and in-
serting ‘‘setting’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘set’’ and inserting ‘‘set-
ting’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(4) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘reserve’’ and inserting 
‘‘reserving’’; and 
(B) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(5) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4) making full use of the set-aside programs 
established in sections 8(a), 8(m), 31, and 36 of this 
Act and any other program under this Act that pro-
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vides for set-asides of contracts for small busi-
nesses.’’. 
(b) AGENCY OUTREACH.—Section 15 of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(s) AGENCY OUTREACH PROGRAM.—The Adminis-
trator, in consultation with the Administrator of the Office 
of Federal Procurement Policy and any agency that ob-
tains 5 percent of procurement requirements through a 
multiple award contract, shall carry out a program to in-
crease the participation of small business concerns in mul-
tiple award contracts, as defined in section 3(v) of this 
Act. Such program shall— 
‘‘(1) increase awareness among small business 
concerns regarding multiple award contracts; 
‘‘(2) provide small business concerns with edu-
cation and training on Federal agency procedures 
for the bid and award of multiple award contracting 
procedures; 
‘‘(3) assist small business concerns with becom-
ing listed on multiple award contracts, including the 
Federal Supply Schedules of the General Services 
Administration; and 
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‘‘(4) develop measures to track small business 
participation in multiple award contracts, including 
awards pursuant to those contracts.’’. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (v)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; and 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (5), and inserting after paragraph 
(1) the following: 
‘‘(2) a contract under the Federal Supply 
Schedule program of the General Services Adminis-
tration; 
‘‘(3) a multi-agency contract which is a con-
tract, or a task order or delivery order awarded pur-
suant to such a contract, established by one agency 
for use by Government agencies to obtain supplies, 
services, or both, in accordance with section 1535 of 
title 31, United States Code; 
‘‘(4) a Government-wide acquisition contract 
which is a contract, task order contract, or delivery 
order contract for information technology established 
by one agency for Government-wide use pursuant to 
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section 11302(e) of title 40, United States Code; 
and’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(dd) BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT.—In this 
Act, the term ‘blanket purchase agreement’ has the mean-
ing given such term in sections 13.303–01 and 13.303– 
2 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect 
on October 1, 2011). 
‘‘(ee) BASIC ORDERING AGREEMENT.—In this Act, 
the term ‘basic ordering agreement’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 16.703 of title 48, Code of Federal 
Regulations (as in effect on October 1, 2011).’’. 
SEC. 4. ENSURING SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN 
MULTIPLE AWARD CONTRACTS, MULTI-AGEN-
CY CONTRACTS, AND GOVERNMENT-WIDE AC-
QUISITION CONTRACTS. 
Section 15(g)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(g)(1)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(g)(1) The President shall’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(g)(1)(A) The President shall’’; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(B) The President shall annually estab-
lish Government-wide goals for the total dollar 
value of all task orders and delivery orders 
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