Small Business Acquisition Transparency Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3638
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6]
Introduced: 2019-07-09
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

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Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Small Business Acquisition Transparency Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires a federal contracting officer, upon written request from an unsuccessful offeror for a task order or delivery order, to provide a brief explanation as to why such offeror was unsuccessful. </p> <p>Specifically, this applies to an offer in an amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold and less than or equal to $5.5 million issued under an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3638 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 9, 2019 Ms. Houlahan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To revise postaward explanations for unsuccessful offerors for certain contracts in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Acquisition Transparency Act of 2019 . 2. Postaward explanations for unsuccessful offerors for certain contracts Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be revised to require that with respect to an offer for a task order or delivery order in an amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold (as defined in section 134 of title 41, United States Code) and less than or equal to $5,500,000 issued under an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract, the contracting officer for such contract shall, upon written request from an unsuccessful offeror, provide a brief explanation as to why such offeror was unsuccessful that includes a summary of the rationale for the award and an evaluation of the significant weak or deficient factors in the offeror's offer.