Title: Protecting Small Business Contracting Opportunities Act of 2020
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Protecting Small Business Contracting Opportunities Act of 2020
This bill exempts certain contracts awarded to small businesses from the procedural requirements of any federal rule or guidance on category management or contract consolidation and limits the inclusion of such contracts when measuring the attainment of any federal goal or benchmark for category management or contract consolidation.
Such contracts are government contracts awarded pursuant to Small Business Administration programs that facilitate contracting with small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals or entities, women, or veterans, or are located in historicaly underutilized business zones.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7403 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7403

To amend the Small Business Act to exempt certain contracts awarded to 
small business concerns from category management requirements, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2020

Ms. Houlahan (for herself and Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Small Business Act to exempt certain contracts awarded to 
small business concerns from category management requirements, 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 ``Protecting Small Business 
Contracting Opportunities Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN CONTRACTS AWARDED TO SMALL BUSINESS 
              CONCERNS FROM CATEGORY MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--The Small Business Act is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 49 as section 50; and
            (2) by inserting after section 48 the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 49. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN CONTRACTS FROM CATEGORY MANAGEMENT 
              REQUIREMENTS.

    ``(a) In General.--A contract awarded under section 8(a), 8(m), 31, 
or 32 that is classified as tier 0--
            ``(1) shall be exempt from the procedural requirements of 
        any Federal rule or guidance on category management or 
        successor strategies for contract consolidation; and
            ``(2) may not be included when measuring the attainment of 
        any goal or benchmark established under any Federal rule or 
        guidance on category management or successor strategies for 
        contract consolidation, unless the inclusion of such contract 
        aids in the achievement of such a goal or benchmark.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Category management.--The term `category management' 
        has the meaning given such term by the Director of the Office 
        of Management and Budget.
            ``(2) Tier 0.--The term `tier 0' has the meaning given such 
        term by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
        with respect to the Spend Under Management tiered maturity 
        model, or any successor model.''.
    (b) Application.--Section 49 of the Small Business Act, as added by 
subsection (a), shall apply with respect to contracts entered into on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (c) Plan and Report.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget shall submit to Congress a report 
        including a plan to increase the participation of small 
        business concerns in agency-wide or Government-wide contracts 
        (including best in class designations as defined in section 
        15(h)(4)(B)). Such plan shall include--
                    (A) strategies to increase the amount and frequency 
                of opportunities for small business concerns to 
                participate in agency-wide or Government-wide 
                contracts;
                    (B) strategies to ease or eliminate requirements 
                that impede such participation of small business 
                concerns; and
                    (C) a specific goal for the number of small 
                business concerns participating in agency-wide or 
                Government-wide contracts and a timeline to achieve 
                such goal.
            (2) Implementation.--Not later than 60 days after the 
        submission of the report required under paragraph (1), the 
        Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall implement 
        the plan contained in such report.
    (d) Rulemaking.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be 
revised to carry out this Act and the amendment made by this Act.
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