IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2781 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 25, 2017 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to certify the 
sufficient participation of small business concerns owned 
and controlled by veterans and small business concerns 
owned by veterans with service-connected disabilities in 
contracts under the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative, 
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 ‘‘Ensuring Veteran En-
terprise Participation in Strategic Sourcing Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS CERTIFI-
CATION OF SUFFICIENT PARTICIPATION OF 
SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND 
CONTROLLED BY VETERANS AND SMALL 
BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED BY VETERANS 
WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES IN 
CONTRACTS UNDER THE FEDERAL STRA-
TEGIC SOURCING INITIATIVE. 
(a) CERTIFICATION REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees 
on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate certification in writing that with respect to 
each contract (except for domestic delivery services) 
awarded under the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative 
(managed by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy) 
a sufficient number of small business concerns owned and 
controlled by veterans and a sufficient number of small 
business concerns owned and controlled by veterans with 
service-connected disabilities are represented within each 
category. 
(b) INSUFFICIENT REPRESENTATION.—If the Sec-
retary determines that the representation by small busi-
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ness concerns owned and controlled by veterans or small 
business concerns owned and controlled by veterans with 
service-connected disabilities within a category of the con-
tracts awarded under such Federal Strategic Sourcing Ini-
tiative is not a sufficient number, the Secretary shall— 
(1) consult with the Administrator of the Gen-
eral Services Administration to increase the number 
of such concerns awarded contracts under such cat-
egory; or 
(2) require the Department of Veterans Affairs 
to stop awarding orders under that category of the 
Initiative, effective on the date of such determina-
tion. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The terms ‘‘small business concern owned 
and controlled by veterans’’ and ‘‘small business 
concern owned and controlled by veterans with serv-
ice-connected disabilities’’ have the meaning given 
such terms in section 8127(k) of title 38, United 
States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘category’’ means— 
(A) a type of supply or service for which 
a suite of contracts has been established under 
the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative; or 
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(B) any further subdivision or grouping 
within such a suite of contracts. 
(3) The term ‘‘sufficient number’’, with respect 
to a type of business concern, means not fewer than 
two and enough to maximize the percentage of or-
ders entered into by the Secretary with such busi-
ness concerns, as determined by the Secretary. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 2017. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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