TITLE III—PROTECTION OF 
TAXPAYERS FROM FRAUD 
SEC. 301. SMALL BUSINESS SIZE PROTEST NOTIFICATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration shall work with appropriate Fed-
eral agencies to ensure that whenever a business concern 
is awarded a contract on the basis that it qualifies as small 
and then is determined not to qualify as small, a notifica-
tion of those facts (that an award was made on such a 
basis, and that such a determination was made) shall be 
placed adjacent to that concern’s listing in the Central 
Contractor Registry (or any successor to that registry). 
(b) COMPTROLLER GENERAL CERTIFICATION.—The 
Administrator shall, in making any report of small busi-
ness goal accomplishments, qualify the accomplishments 
as ‘‘estimated’’, until the Administrator obtains from the 
Comptroller General the Comptroller General’s certifi-
cation that there are no data integrity issues with respect 
to the national repository of contract award information 
known as Federal Procurement Data System-Next Gen-
eration (FPDS–NG), or any successor to that repository. 
(c) AWARDS TO LARGE BUSINESSES.—For each Fed-
eral agency, the Inspector General of that agency shall, 
on an annual basis, submit to Congress a report on the 
number and dollar value of contract awards that were
coded as awards to small business concerns but in fact 
were made to businesses that did not qualify as small busi-
ness concerns. 
SEC. 302. REVIEW OF NATIONAL REGISTRY. 
The Administrator of the Small Business Administra-
tion shall ensure, on a biannual basis, that an independent 
audit is performed of the Central Contractor Registry, or 
any successor to that registry, and that the Dynamic 
Small Business Search portion of the registry, or any suc-
cessor to that portion of the registry, is purged of any 
businesses that are not in fact small businesses. If a busi-
ness that has been so purged attempts, while not in fact 
a small business, to re-register, that business is subject 
to debarment as a Federal contractor and is further sub-
ject to penalties outlined in section 16 of the Small Busi-
ness Act (15 U.S.C. 645). 
SEC. 303. RECERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH SIZE 
STANDARDS AND REGISTRATION WITH CEN-
TRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRY. 
Section 3(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
632(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) RECERTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If a business concern is 
awarded a contract because of a standard by which 
it is determined to be a small business concern, and
the business concern is close to exceeding that 
standard at the time the award is made, then the 
business concern must, annually after the date of 
the award, recertify to the agency awarding the con-
tract whether it meets that standard. 
‘‘(B) ‘CLOSE TO EXCEEDING’.—For purposes of 
subparagraph (A), a business concern is close to ex-
ceeding— 
‘‘(i) a number-of-employees standard if the 
number of employees of the business concern is 
95 percent or more of the maximum number of 
employees allowed under the standard; and 
‘‘(ii) a dollar-volume-of-business standard 
if the dollar volume of business is 80 percent or 
more of the maximum dollar volume allowed 
under the standard. 
‘‘(6) REGISTRY.—For a business concern to be 
awarded a contract because of a standard by which it is 
determined to be a small business concern, the business 
concern must, annually after the end of the fiscal year 
used by the business concern, update its listing in the Cen-
tral Contractor Registry.’’.
TITLE IV—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 401. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this Act and the amend-
ments made by this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 10, 2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1873 
AN ACT 
To reauthorize the programs and activities of the 
Small Business Administration relating to pro-
curement, and for other purposes.