Title: Small Business Category Management Training Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Small Business Category Management Training Act
This bill requires the Small Business Administration to develop a training curriculum on category management, including best practices for purchasing goods and services from small businesses, for the staff of federal agencies with procurement or acquisition responsibilities.
Category management is a federal government approach to procurement and acquisition that aims to (1) deliver more savings, value, and efficiency for federal agencies; (2) eliminate contract redundancies; and (3) meet federal small business contracting and procurement goals.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7533 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7533

 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
  develop a training curriculum on category management, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2020

  Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
  develop a training curriculum on category management, 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 ``Small Business Category Management 
Training Act''.

SEC. 2. CATEGORY MANAGEMENT TRAINING.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 8 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration, in coordination with the Administrator of the Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy and any other head of a Federal agency as 
determined by the Administrator, shall develop a training curriculum on 
category management for staff of Federal agencies with procurement or 
acquisition responsibilities. Such training shall include--
            (1) best practices for purchasing goods and services from 
        small business concerns (as defined under section 3 of the 
        Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)); and
            (2) information on avoiding conflicts with the requirements 
        of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.).
    (b) Use of Curriculum.--The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration--
            (1) shall ensure that staff for Federal agencies described 
        in subsection (a) receive the training described in such 
        subsection; and
            (2) may request the assistance of the relevant Director of 
        Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (as described in 
        section 15(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(k))) to 
        carry out the requirements of paragraph (1).
    (c) Submission to Congress.--The Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration shall provide a copy of the training curriculum 
developed under subsection (a) to the Committee on Small Business of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship of the Senate.
    (d) Category Management Defined.--In this Act, the term ``category 
management'' has the meaning given by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget.
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