Title: Ensuring Veteran Enterprise Participation in Strategic Sourcing Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Ensuring Veteran Enterprise Participation in Strategic Sourcing Act
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to certify that sufficient numbers of small businesses owned and controlled by veterans, and of small business owned by veterans with service-connected disabilities, are represented within each category of supplies or services for which a suite of contracts has been awarded under the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative. A "sufficient number" means between two and enough to maximize the percentage of orders entered into by the VA with such businesses, as determined by the VA.
If such representation within a category is not sufficient, the VA shall: (1) consult with the General Services Administration to increase the number of such concerns awarded contracts under that category, or (2) stop awarding orders under that category of the initiative.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2781 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2781

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 6, 2017

 Mr. Dunn (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Veteran Enterprise 
Participation in Strategic Sourcing Act''.

SEC. 2. SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS CERTIFICATION 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 STRATEGIC SOURCING 
              INITIATIVE.

    (a) Certification Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
submit to Congress certification in writing that with respect to each 
contract 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 by veterans with 
service-connected disabilities are represented within each category.
    (b) Insufficient Representation.--If the Secretary determines that 
the representation by small business concerns owned and controlled by 
veterans or small business concerns owned by veterans with service-
connected disabilities within a category of the contracts awarded under 
such Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative is not a sufficient number, 
the Secretary shall--
            (1) consult with the Administrator of the General Services 
        Administration to increase the number of such concerns awarded 
        contracts under such category; or
            (2) require the Department of Veterans Affairs to stop 
        awarding orders under that category of the Initiative, 
        effective on the date of such determination.
    (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 service-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
                    (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 orders entered into by the Secretary 
        with such business concerns, as determined by the Secretary.
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