In this paragraph, the term ‘category goal’ means a goal 
described in paragraph (2).’’. 
SEC. 206. ANNUAL PLAN FOR EACH AGENCY EXPLAINING 
HOW AGENCY WILL MEET SMALL BUSINESS 
GOALS. 
Section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
644(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) Before the beginning of each fiscal year, the head 
of each Federal agency shall submit to the Administrator 
of the Small Business Administration and to Congress a 
detailed plan explaining how the agency intends to meet 
the small business goals under this subsection that apply 
to that agency for that fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 207. MAKING SMALL BUSINESSES THE FIRST CHOICE. 
Section 15(j) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
644(j)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘or order’’ after ‘‘Each 
contract’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘$100,000’’ and insert ‘‘the 
Simplified Acquisition Threshold’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘subsection (a) 
of section 8’’ and inserting ‘‘section 8, 31, or 36’’. 
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SEC. 
208. 
UNIFORM 
METRIC 
FOR 
SUBCONTRACTING 
ACHIEVEMENTS. 
Section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
637(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:. 
‘‘(12) In carrying out this subsection, the Adminis-
trator shall require each prime contractor to report small 
business subcontract usage at all tiers based on the percent-
age of the total dollar amount of the contract award.’’. 
SEC. 209. SUBCONTRACTING DATABASE. 
Section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
637(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(13) In carrying out this subsection, the Adminis-
trator shall develop and maintain a password-protected 
database that will enable the Administration to assist small 
businesses in marketing to large corporations that have not 
achieved their small business goals.’’. 
SEC. 210. NATIONAL DATABASE. 
The Administrator of the Small Business Administra-
tion shall ensure that whenever a small business enters its 
information in the Central Contractor Registry, or any suc-
cessor to that registry, the Administrator contacts that busi-
ness within 30 days regarding the likelihood of Federal con-
tracting opportunities. The Administrator shall ensure that 
each small business that so registers is, for each industry 
code entered by that small business, provided with the total 
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dollar value of government contract awards to small busi-
nesses for that industry. 
SEC. 211. REVIEW OF SUBCONTRACTING PLANS. 
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment 
of this section, the Administrator of the Small Business Ad-
ministration shall, after an opportunity for notice and com-
ment, prescribe regulations to govern the Administrator’s 
review of subcontracting plans, including standards for de-
termining good faith effort in compliance with the subcon-
tracting plans. 
SEC. 212. AGENCY OBLIGATION FOR FULFILLING CON-
TRACTING GOALS. 
Section 15(h) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
644(h)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) At the conclusion of each fiscal year, the head of 
each Federal agency shall submit to Congress a report speci-
fying the percentage of contracts awarded by that agency 
for that fiscal year that were awarded to small business con-
cerns. If the percentage is less than 30 percent, the head 
of the agency shall, in the report, explain why the percent-
age is less than 30 percent and what will be done to ensure 
that the percentage for the following fiscal year will not be 
less than 30 percent.’’. 
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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 certification 
that there are no data integrity issues with respect to the 
national repository of contract award information known 
as Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation 
(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 
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awards to small business concerns but in fact were made 
to businesses that did not qualify as small business con-
cerns. 
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 successor 
to that portion of the registry, is purged of any businesses 
that are not in fact small businesses. If a business 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 subject to penalties out-
lined in section 16 of the Small Business 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 
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the business concern is close to exceeding that stand-
ard 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 contract 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 award-
ed a contract because of a standard by which it is deter-
mined 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 Central Con-
tractor Registry.’’. 
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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 amendments 
made by this Act. 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as 
the ‘‘Small Business Fairness in Contracting 
Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Regulations. 
TITLE I—CONTRACT BUNDLING 
Sec. 101. Definitions of bundling of contract requirements and 
related terms. 
Sec. 102. Justification. 
Sec. 103. Appeals. 
Sec. 104. Review. 
TITLE II—INCREASING THE NUMBER OF SMALL BUSINESS 
CONTRACTS AND SUBCONTRACTS 
Sec. 201. Small business goal. 
Sec. 202. Annual goal negotiation. 
Sec. 203. Usage of small companies in goal achievement. 
Sec. 204. Annual plan for each agency explaining how agency 
will meet small business goals. 
Sec. 205. Making small businesses the first choice. 
Sec. 206. Uniform metric for subcontracting achievements. 
Sec. 207. Subcontracting database. 
Sec. 208. National database. 
Sec. 209. Review of subcontracting plans. 
Sec. 210. Agency obligation for fulfilling contracting goals. 
Sec. 211. Appropriate limits on value of sole source contracts. 
TITLE III—PROTECTION OF TAXPAYERS FROM FRAUD 
Sec. 301. Small business size protest notification. 
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Sec. 302. Review of national registry. 
Sec. 303. Recertification of compliance with size standards and 
registration with Central Contractor Registry. 
TITLE IV—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 401. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 2. REGULATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration shall promul-
gate regulations to implement this Act 
and the amendments made by this Act; 
and 
(2) the Federal Acquisition Regula-
tion shall be revised to implement this 
Act and the amendments made by this 
Act. 
(b) NOTICE
AND COMMENT.—The regula-
tions required by subsection (a) shall be pro-
mulgated after opportunity for notice and 
comment as required by section 553(b) of title 
5, United States Code. 
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TITLE I—CONTRACT BUNDLING 
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS OF BUNDLING OF CONTRACT RE-
QUIREMENTS AND RELATED TERMS. 
Section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 632) is amended by amending sub-
section (o) to read as follows: 
‘‘(o) DEFINITIONS
OF BUNDLING
OF CON-
TRACT REQUIREMENTS AND RELATED TERMS.— 
For purposes of this Act: 
‘‘(1) BUNDLED CONTRACT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘bun-
dled contract’ means a contract or 
order that is entered into to meet 
procurement requirements that are 
consolidated in a bundling of con-
tract requirements, without regard to 
its 
designation 
by 
the 
procuring 
agency or whether a study of the ef-
fects of the solicitation on civilian or 
military personnel has been made. 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTIONS.—The term does 
not include— 
‘‘(i) a contract or order with 
an aggregate dollar value below 
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the dollar threshold specified in 
paragraph (4); or 
‘‘(ii) a contract or order that 
is entered into to meet procure-
ment requirements, all of which 
are exempted requirements under 
paragraph (5). 
‘‘(2) BUNDLING OF CONTRACT REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘bun-
dling 
of 
contract 
requirements’ 
means the use of any bundling meth-
odology to satisfy 2 or more procure-
ment requirements for goods or serv-
ices, including any construction serv-
ices, 
previously 
supplied 
or 
per-
formed under separate smaller con-
tracts or orders that is likely to be 
unsuitable for award to a small busi-
ness concern due to— 
‘‘(i) the diversity, size, or spe-
cialized nature of the elements of 
the performance specified; 
‘‘(ii) 
the 
aggregate 
dollar 
value of the anticipated award; 
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‘‘(iii) the geographical disper-
sion of the contract or order per-
formance sites; or 
‘‘(iv) any combination of the 
factors described in clauses (i), 
(ii), and (iii). 
‘‘(B) INCLUSION
OF
NEW
FEATURES 
OR FUNCTIONS.—A combination of con-
tract requirements that would meet 
the definition of a bundling of con-
tract requirements but for the addi-
tion of a procurement requirement 
with at least one new good or service 
shall be considered to be a bundling 
of contract requirements unless the 
new features or functions substan-
tially transform the goods or services 
previously performed. 
‘‘(C) EXCEPTIONS.—The term does 
not include— 
‘‘(i) the use of a bundling 
methodology for an anticipated 
award with an aggregate dollar 
value below the dollar threshold 
specified in paragraph (5); or 
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‘‘(ii) the use of a bundling 
methodology to meet procure-
ment requirements, all of which 
are exempted requirements under 
paragraph (6). 
‘‘(3) 
BUNDLING
METHODOLOGY.—The 
term ‘bundling methodology’ means— 
‘‘(A) a solicitation to obtain offers 
for a single contract or order, or a 
multiple award contract or order; or 
‘‘(B) a solicitation of offers for the 
issuance of a task or a delivery order 
under an existing single or multiple 
award contract or order. 
‘‘(4) SEPARATE
SMALLER
CONTRACT.— 
The term ‘separate smaller contract’, with 
respect to bundling of contract require-
ments, means a contract or order that 
has been performed by 1 or more small 
business concerns or was suitable for 
award to 1 or more small business con-
cerns. 
‘‘(5) DOLLAR
THRESHOLD.—The term 
‘dollar threshold’ means— 
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‘‘(A) $65,000,000, if solely for con-
struction services; and 
‘‘(B) $5,000,000, in all other cases. 
‘‘(6) 
EXEMPTED
REQUIREMENTS.—The 
term ‘exempted requirement’ means a 
procurement requirement solely for items 
that are not commercial items (as the 
term ‘commercial item’ is defined in sec-
tion 4(12) of the Office of Federal Pro-
curement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(12)). 
‘‘(7) PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENT.—The 
term ‘procurement requirement’ means a 
determination by an agency that a speci-
fied good or service is needed to satisfy 
the mission of the agency.’’. 
SEC. 102. JUSTIFICATION. 
Section 15(a) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(2) why delivery 
schedules’’ and inserting ‘‘(2) the names, 
addresses and size of the incumbent con-
tract holders; (3) a description of the in-
dustries that might be interested in bid-
ding on the contract requirements; (4) 
the number of small businesses listed in 
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the industry categories that could be ex-
cluded from future bidding if the con-
tract is combined or packaged; (5) why 
delivery schedules’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘(3) why the proposed 
acquisition’’ and inserting ‘‘(6) why the 
proposed acquisition’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘(4) why construction’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(7) why construction’’; 
(4) by striking ‘‘(5) why the agency’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(8) why the agency’’; 
(5) by striking ‘‘justified.’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘justified. The statement shall also set 
forth the proposed procurement strategy 
required by subsection (e) and, if applica-
ble, the specifications required by sub-
section (e)(3). The statement shall be 
made available to the public, including 
through dissemination in the Federal 
contracting opportunities database, con-
currently with the issuance of the solici-
tation.’’; and 
(6) by inserting after ‘‘prime con-
tracting opportunities.’’ the following: ‘‘If 
no notification of the procurement and 
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accompanying statement is received, but 
the Administrator determines that there 
is cause to believe the contract combines 
requirements or a contract (single or 
multiple award) or task or delivery order 
for construction services or includes un-
justified bundling, then the Adminis-
trator may request that such a statement 
of work goods or services be completed 
by the procurement activity and sent to 
the Procurement Center Representative 
and the solicitation process postponed 
for 10 days to allow the Administrator to 
review the statement and make rec-
ommendations as described in this sec-
tion before the procurement is contin-
ued.’’. 
SEC. 103. APPEALS. 
Section 15(a) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(a)) is amended by inserting before 
‘‘Whenever the Administration and the con-
tracting procurement agency fail to agree,’’ 
the following: ‘‘If a small business concern 
would be adversely affected, directly or indi-
rectly, by the procurement as proposed, and 
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that small business concern or a trade asso-
ciation on behalf of that small business con-
cern so requests, the Administrator may, in 
the Administrator’s discretion, take action to 
further the interests of that small business 
concern.’’. 
SEC. 104. REVIEW. 
Section 15(a) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(a)) is amended by striking the sen-
tence beginning ‘‘Whenever the Administra-
tion and the contracting procurement agency 
fail to agree,’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘Whenever the Administration and the con-
tracting procurement agency fail to agree, the 
Administrator shall submit the matter to the 
head of the agency for a determination. The 
head of the agency shall provide a written re-
sponse to the Administrator. A copy of such 
response shall also be provided to the Com-
mittees on Small Business of the House of 
Representatives and Senate, the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform of the 
House of Representatives, and the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate.’’. 
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TITLE 
II—INCREASING 
THE 
NUMBER OF SMALL BUSINESS 
CONTRACTS 
AND 
SUB-
CONTRACTS 
SEC. 201. SMALL BUSINESS GOAL. 
(a) 
GOVERNMENT-WIDE
GOAL.—Section 
15(g)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
644(g)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘23 percent’’ 
and inserting ‘‘25 percent’’. 
(b) GOALS FOR SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSI-
NESSES AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES.—Sec-
tion 15(g)(1) of such Act is further amended 
by striking ‘‘5 percent’’ both places it appears 
and inserting ‘‘8 percent’’. 
SEC. 202. ANNUAL GOAL NEGOTIATION. 
Section 15(g)(1) of the Small Business Act 
(15 U.S.C. 644(g)(1)) is amended by striking 
‘‘The President shall annually establish Gov-
ernment-wide goals for procurement con-
tracts’’ and inserting ‘‘The President shall be-
fore the close of each fiscal year establish new 
Government-wide procurement goals for the 
following fiscal year for procurement con-
tracts’’. 
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SEC. 203. USAGE OF SMALL COMPANIES IN GOAL ACHIEVE-
MENT. 
Section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(g)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(4) For purposes of this subsection and 
subsection (h), a small business concern shall 
be counted toward one additional category 
goal only, even if that small business concern 
otherwise qualifies under more than one cat-
egory goal. In this paragraph, the term ‘cat-
egory goal’ means a goal described in para-
graph (2).’’. 
SEC. 204. ANNUAL PLAN FOR EACH AGENCY EXPLAINING 
HOW AGENCY WILL MEET SMALL BUSINESS 
GOALS. 
Section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(g)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(5) Before the beginning of each fiscal 
year, the head of each Federal agency shall 
submit to the Administrator of the Small Busi-
ness Administration and to Congress a de-
tailed plan explaining how the agency intends 
to meet the small business goals under this 
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subsection that apply to that agency for that 
fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 205. MAKING SMALL BUSINESSES THE FIRST CHOICE. 
Section 15(j) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(j)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking 
‘‘$100,000’’ and inserting ‘‘the Simplified 
Acquisition Threshold’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (a) of section 8’’ and inserting 
‘‘section 8, 31, or 36’’. 
SEC. 
206. 
UNIFORM 
METRIC 
FOR 
SUBCONTRACTING 
ACHIEVEMENTS. 
Section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 637(d)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(12) In carrying out this subsection, the 
Administrator shall require each prime con-
tractor to report small business subcontract 
usage at all tiers based on the percentage of 
the total dollar amount of the contract 
award.’’. 
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SEC. 207. SUBCONTRACTING DATABASE. 
Section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 637(d)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(13) In carrying out this subsection, the 
Administrator shall develop and maintain a 
password-protected database that will enable 
the Administration to assist small businesses 
in marketing to large corporations that have 
not achieved their small business goals.’’. 
SEC. 208. NATIONAL DATABASE. 
The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall ensure that whenever a 
small business enters its information in the 
Central Contractor Registry, or any successor 
to that registry, the Administrator contacts 
that business within 30 days regarding the 
likelihood of Federal contracting opportuni-
ties. The Administrator shall ensure that each 
small business that so registers is, for each in-
dustry code entered by that small business, 
provided with the total dollar value of govern-
ment contract awards to small businesses for 
that industry. 
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SEC. 209. REVIEW OF SUBCONTRACTING PLANS. 
Not later than 120 days after the date of 
the enactment of this section, the Adminis-
trator of the Small Business Administration 
shall, after an opportunity for notice and com-
ment, prescribe regulations to govern the Ad-
ministrator’s review of subcontracting plans, 
including standards for determining good 
faith effort in compliance with the subcon-
tracting plans. 
SEC. 210. AGENCY OBLIGATION FOR FULFILLING CON-
TRACTING GOALS. 
Section 15(h) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(h)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(4) At the conclusion of each fiscal year, 
the head of each Federal agency shall submit 
to Congress a report specifying the percent-
age of contracts awarded by that agency for 
that fiscal year that were awarded to small 
business concerns. If the percentage is less 
than 25 percent, the head of the agency shall, 
in the report, explain why the percentage is 
less than 25 percent and what will be done to 
ensure that the percentage for the following 
fiscal year will not be less than 25 percent.’’. 
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SEC. 211. APPROPRIATE LIMITS ON VALUE OF SOLE 
SOURCE CONTRACTS. 
(a) APPROPRIATE LIMITS.—If a law is not 
enacted by December 31, 2007, revising the 
limits referred to in this subsection, the Ad-
ministrator for Federal Procurement Policy, 
in consultation with the Administrator for 
Small Business, shall establish appropriate 
limits on the value of contracts awarded with-
out the use of competitive procedures to par-
ticipants in the program established by sec-
tion 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 USC 
637(a)) that are not subject to the limits on the 
value of such contracts established by para-
graph (1)(D) of section 8(a) of such Act. 
(b) CONSULTATION.—In establishing any 
limit described in subsection (a). the Adminis-
trator for Federal Procurement Policy shall 
consult with representatives of the affected 
program 
participants. 
The 
Administrator 
shall also take into account— 
(1) any special circumstances and 
needs of the affected program partici-
pants; and 
(2) the advantages of promoting com-
petition in Federal contracting. 
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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 Federal 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 notification 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
CERTIFI-
CATION.—The Administrator shall, in making 
any report of small business goal accomplish-
ments, qualify the accomplishments as ‘‘esti-
mated’’, until the Administrator obtains from 
the Comptroller General the Comptroller 
General’s certification that there are no data 
integrity issues with respect to the national 
repository of contract award information 
known as Federal Procurement Data System- 
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Next Generation (FPDS–NG), or any successor 
to that repository. 
(c) AWARDS
TO
LARGE
BUSINESSES.—For 
each Federal agency, the Inspector General of 
that agency shall, on an annual basis, submit 
to Congress a report on the number and dol-
lar 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 business concerns. 
SEC. 302. REVIEW OF NATIONAL REGISTRY. 
The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration 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 Dy-
namic Small Business Search portion of the 
registry, or any successor to that portion of 
the registry, is purged of any businesses that 
are not in fact small businesses. If a business 
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 subject to penalties 
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outlined in section 16 of the Small Business 
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 con-
cern is awarded a contract because of a 
standard by which it is determined to be 
a small business concern, and the busi-
ness 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 contract wheth-
er it meets that standard. 
‘‘(B) ‘CLOSE TO EXCEEDING’.—For pur-
poses of subparagraph (A), a business 
concern is close to exceeding— 
‘‘(i) a number-of-employees stand-
ard if the number of employees of the 
business concern is 95 percent or 
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more of the maximum number of em-
ployees allowed under the standard; 
and 
‘‘(ii) a dollar-volume-of-business 
standard if the dollar volume of busi-
ness is 80 percent or more of the max-
imum 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 busi-
ness concern, the business concern must, an-
nually after the end of the fiscal year used by 
the business concern, update its listing in the 
Central 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 amendments made by this 
Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 71 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1873 
[Report No. 110–111, Parts I and II] 
A BILL 
To reauthorize the programs and activities of the 
Small Business Administration relating to pro-
curement, and for other purposes. 
MAY 3, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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