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Eight bills meant to make it easier for small businesses to win
federal contracts has won approval in the House
The eight contracting bills were attached to
the defense bill to guaranteed they would make it to the House floor,
according to D.J. Jordan, spokesman for the House Small Business Committee,
which sponsored the bills.
The contracting bills include:
—The Government Efficiency Through Small
Business Contracting Act, which would raise from the current 23% to 25% the
amount of federal contracting dollars that should go to small businesses.
—The Small Business Advocate Act, which
would make it easier for the Offices of Small and DisadvantagedBusiness
Utilization in federal agencies to advocate for small business contracts.
—The Subcontracting Transparency and
Reliability Act, which makes it easier for the government to stop large
businesses from winning contracts by using small companies to front for them
and would allow more small businesses to team up to win contracts.
—The Small Business Opportunity Act, which
would make small business advocates part of the federal contracting process.
—The Building Better Business Partnerships
Act, which would Allow the Small Business Administration to oversee 13
current mentorship programs for small businesses.
—The Small Business Protection Act, which
would revamp the SBA's size standards, or the measure it uses to determine
what a small business is.
—The Contractor Opportunity Protection Act,
which would overhaul the appeals process for contract bundling. Bundling is
the process that brings a number of small companies together to provide goods
or services to fulfill one large government contract.
—The Contracting Oversight for Small
Business Jobs Act, which is intended to fight fraud in contracting.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
House Passes Small Business Contracting Bills
