Small Business Contractor's Clarification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1583
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hardy, Cresent [R-NV-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-24
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disability and paralysis

Economic development

Public contracts and procurement

Small business

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Women in business
Latest action: action_date: 2015-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Small Business Contractor's Clarification Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Small Business Act to revise the federal procurement requirements of the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) with respect to small business contracts for articles, equipment, supplies, services or materials, or to perform construction work for the government.</p> <p>The permission to submit an offer for a procurement contract, even though the offeror is not the actual manufacturer or processor of the product in question, is extended to additional kinds of small businesses, including: </p> <ul> <li> women-owned small businesses;</li> <li>HUBZone small businesses, and</li> <li>small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.</li> </ul> <p>Contracts whose principal purpose is acquisition of services or construction are exempt from this Act.</p> <p>Limitations on SBA subcontracting are revised to require contracts that are principally for supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies, and that are not contracts principally for services or construction, to supply the product of a domestic small business manufacturer or processor, unless a waiver is granted by the Administrator under specified conditions.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1583 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 24, 2015 Mr. Hardy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business A BILL To amend the Small Business Act to clarify the requirements related to small business contracts for services, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Contractor’s Clarification Act of 2015 . 2. Clarification of requirements related to small business contracts for services (a) Procurement contracts Section 8(a)(17) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 637(a)(17) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking any procurement contract and all that follows through section 15 and inserting any procurement contract, which contract has as its principal purpose the supply of a product to be let pursuant to this subsection or subsection (m), or section 15(a), 31, or 36, ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (C) Limitation This paragraph shall not apply to a contract that has as its principal purpose the acquisition of services or construction. . (b) Subcontractor contracts Section 46(a)(4) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 657s(a)(4) ) is amended by striking for supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies and inserting which is principally for supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies, and which is not a contract principally for services or construction .