119-hr789

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 789 Referred in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 789

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 June 4, 2025

 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
 and Entrepreneurship

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 AN ACT

 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
 issue rules for cancelled covered solicitations, to amend the Small 
Business Act to provide assistance to small business concerns relating 
 to certain cancelled solicitations, 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 ``Transparency and Predictability in 
Small Business Opportunities Act''.

SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RULES FOR CANCELLED COVERED 
 SOLICITATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall issue rules as follows:

    (1) Requiring disclosure of information about a covered 
 solicitation that was issued and cancelled that includes the 
 following:
        (A) A justification for the cancellation of such 
 covered solicitation.
        (B) Available information about any plans to 
 reissue such covered solicitation and any associated 
 timeframes for such reissuance.
            (C) Available information about any plans to 
 include the requirements of such covered solicitation 
 in another contract or task order of the Federal 
 agency.

    (2) With respect to a cancelled covered solicitation which 
 the Federal agency does not intend to reissue, establishing 
 procedures for the referral of a small business concern (as 
 defined under 

section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
 632)) that prepared a bid for such covered solicitation to the 
 Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (as 
 defined in 

section 15

    (k) of such Act (15 U.S.C. 644

    (k) )) of the 
 Federal agency for assistance in identifying similar 
 contracting opportunities.

    (b) Publication.--The information required under subsection

    (a) shall be made publicly accessible on the single, Government-wide point 
of entry described under 

section 1708 of title 41, United States Code.
            (c) Covered Solicitation Defined.--In this section, the term 
``covered solicitation'' means a solicitation of a Federal agency for a 
procurement for which two or more small business concerns were eligible 
to submit a bid.

SEC. 3. DUTIES FOR DIRECTORS OF OFFICES OF SMALL AND DISADVANTAGED 
 BUSINESS UTILIZATION RELATING TO CERTAIN CANCELLED 
 SOLICITATIONS.

 

Section 15

    (k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644

    (k) ) is 
amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (21) , by striking the period at the end 
 and inserting ``; and''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
 ``

    (22) shall, when notified by a small business concern 
 that a Federal agency cancelled a solicitation for which such 
 concern prepared a bid and such Federal agency does not intend 
 to reissue such solicitation, assist such concern with 
 identifying similar contracting opportunities.''.

SEC. 4. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED.

 No additional funds are authorized to carry out the requirements of 
this Act and the amendments made by this Act.

 Passed the House of Representatives June 3, 2025.

 Attest:

 KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

 Clerk.