HR 3558 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Small Business Fair Competition Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 23, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedSep 14, 2009
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Small Business Fair Competition Act - Allows an incumbent contractor to recompete for a proposed contract in the case of a government solicitation for bids or proposals for goods or services that are substantially the same as under a current contract, provided the contractor currently performing the contract represents in good faith that it is a small business.

Permits such representation to be made if the incumbent contractor: (1) meets the definition of a small business concern applicable to the solicitation and has not been determined by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to be other than a small business; or (2) was a small business when the current contract was awarded, is no longer a small business at the time of the solicitation, and will revert to being a small business if not awarded the proposed contract.

Allows the government to qualify a contract being awarded to the incumbent contractor as a small business set-aside for the duration of the contract.

Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be revised to implement this Act.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 6

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 23, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
  2. Sep 14, 2009Introduced in House
  3. Sep 14, 2009Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
  4. Sep 14, 2009Referred to House Small Business
  5. Sep 14, 2009Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Sep 14, 2009Introduced in House

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