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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6368 
To encourage R&D small business set-asides, to encourage SBIR and STTR 
participants to serve as mentors under the Small Business Administra-
tion’s mentor-protege program, to promote the use of interagency con-
tracts, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13, 2018 
Mr. ESPAILLAT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Over-
sight and Government Reform, and Science, Space, and Technology, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To encourage R&D small business set-asides, to encourage 
SBIR and STTR participants to serve as mentors under 
the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege pro-
gram, to promote the use of interagency 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 ‘‘Encouraging Small 
Business Innovators’’. 
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SEC. 2. INCLUDING TESTING AND EVALUATION IN THE 
DEFINITION OF R&D. 
Section 9(e)(5) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(e)(5)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), 
and (C) as clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively; 
(2) by striking ‘‘means any activity’’ and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘means— 
‘‘(A) any activity’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘and 
‘‘(B) any testing or evaluation in connec-
tion with such an activity;’’. 
SEC. 3. ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN THE MENTOR- 
PROTEGE PROGRAM. 
Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(tt) ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN THE MEN-
TOR-PROTEGE PROGRAM.—The Administrator shall pro-
vide an increase to the past performance rating of any 
small business concern that has participated in the SBIR 
or STTR program that serves as a mentor under section 
45 to a small business concern that seeks to participate 
in the SBIR or STTR program.’’. 
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SEC. 4. PROMOTING THE USE OF GOVERNMENT-WIDE AND 
OTHER INTERAGENCY CONTRACTS. 
(a) PROMOTING INTERAGENCY ACQUISITIONS.—Sec-
tion 865 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘all interagency acquisi-
tions’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by adding ‘‘all interagency assisted 
acquisitions’’ before ‘‘include’’; and 
(ii) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(C) by striking subparagraph (B); 
(D) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (B); 
(E) in subparagraph (B), as so redesig-
nated, by adding ‘‘all interagency assisted ac-
quisitions’’ before ‘‘include’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(5) The term ‘assisted acquisition’ means a 
type of interagency acquisition where a servicing 
agency performs acquisition activities on a request-
ing agency’s behalf, such as awarding and admin-
istering a contract, task order, or delivery order.’’. 
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