I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1390 
To amend the Small Business Act to modify the requirements for joint 
venture offers for bundled or consolidated contracts, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2015 
Mr. KNIGHT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to modify the require-
ments for joint venture offers for bundled or consolidated 
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 Joint 
Venturing Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. JOINT VENTURE OFFERS FOR BUNDLED OR CON-
SOLIDATED CONTRACTS. 
Section 15(e)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(e)(4)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) CONTRACT TEAMING.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a solici-
tation of offers for a bundled or consolidated 
contract that is issued by the head of an agen-
cy, a small business concern may submit an 
offer that provides for use of a particular team 
of subcontractors or a joint venture of small 
business concerns for the performance of the 
contract. 
‘‘(B) EVALUATION OF OFFERS.—The head 
of the agency shall evaluate the offer of a team 
or a joint venture of small business concerns in 
the same manner as other offers, with due con-
sideration to the capabilities of all of the pro-
posed subcontractors or members of the joint 
venture as follows: 
‘‘(i) TEAMS.—When evaluating an 
offer of a small business prime contractor 
whose offer includes a proposed team of 
small business subcontractors, the head of 
the agency shall consider the capabilities 
and past performance of each first tier 
subcontractor that is part of the team as 
the capabilities and past performance of 
the team. 
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‘‘(ii) JOINT VENTURES.—When evalu-
ating an offer of a joint venture of small 
business concerns, if the joint venture does 
not have sufficient capabilities or past per-
formance to be considered for award of a 
contract opportunity, the head of the agen-
cy shall consider the capabilities and past 
performance of each member of the joint 
venture as the capabilities past perform-
ance of the joint venture. 
‘‘(C) STATUS AS A SMALL BUSINESS CON-
CERN.—Participation of a small business con-
cern in a team or a joint venture under this 
paragraph shall not affect the status of that 
concern as a small business concern for any 
other purpose.’’. 
SEC. 3. TEAM AND JOINT VENTURES OFFERS FOR MUL-
TIPLE AWARD CONTRACTS. 
Section 15(q)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(q)(1))— 
(1) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘AND JOINT 
VENTURE’’ before ‘‘REQUIREMENTS’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘Each Federal agency’’ and in-
serting the following: 
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‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Each Federal agen-
cy’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(B) TEAMS.—When evaluating an offer of 
a small business prime contractor whose offer 
includes a proposed team of small business sub-
contractors for any multiple award contract 
above the substantial bundling threshold of the 
Federal agency, the head of the agency shall 
consider the capabilities and past performance 
of each first tier subcontractor that is part of 
the team as the capabilities and past perform-
ance of the offeror. 
‘‘(C) JOINT VENTURES.—When evaluating 
an offer of a joint venture of small business 
concerns for any multiple award contract above 
the substantial bundling threshold of the Fed-
eral agency, if the joint venture does not have 
sufficient capabilities or past performance to be 
considered for award of a contract opportunity, 
the head of the agency shall consider the capa-
bilities and past performance of each member of 
the joint venture as the capabilities and past 
performance of the joint venture.’’. 
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SEC. 4. RULEMAKING. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business Ad-
ministration shall issue any regulations necessary to carry 
out the amendments made by this Act. 
Æ 
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