Official Summaries

Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act

This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue rules for disclosing information about federal contract solicitations for which small businesses were eligible and that were issued and cancelled.

Under the rules for such a solicitation, an agency must provide (1) a justification for the cancellation, (2) information about any plans to reissue the solicitation and any associated time frames, and (3) information about any plans to include the requirements of the solicitation in another contract or task order of the agency.

Additionally, for such solicitations that an agency does not intend to reissue, the SBA must provide procedures for the agency to refer a small business that prepared a bid for such covered solicitation to the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization for assistance in identifying similar contracting opportunities.

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

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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.