Sec. 2. Including subcontracting goals in agency responsibilities; reports
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Section 1633(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 ( Public Law 112–239 ; 126 Stat. 2076; 15 U.S.C. 631 note) is amended by striking assume responsibility for of the agency's success in achieving small business contracting goals and percentages and inserting assume responsibility for the agency's success in achieving each of the small business prime contracting and subcontracting goals and percentages . Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the Small Contractors Improve Competition Act of 2015, the Comptroller General of the United States shall begin a study, which shall be conducted for a period of 1 year, to assess whether the systems of an agency or department accurately record the data necessary to comply with any requirements related to subcontracting at any tier under the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 631 et seq. ).
Not later than 90 days after the date on which the study described in paragraph
(1)is completed, the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate on the results of such study. The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study— to assess whether Federal agencies are accurately identifying the size status of business concerns awarded contracts in the Federal Procurement Data System as small business concerns; and to identify, to the extent practicable, the impact of incorrect size status designations on meeting the requirements related to goals in subsections
(g)and
(h)of section 15 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 644 ). The study described in paragraph
(1)shall include— a description of the procedures and processes of each Federal agency, including the roles of the individuals described in section 1633(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 ( Public Law 112–239 ; 126 10 Stat. 2076; 15 U.S.C. 631 note) and the training provided to the acquisition workforce of such agency (as described under section 1703 of title 41, United States Code); a description of the extent to which such processes and procedures help ensure that business concerns are assigned the most appropriate size status; a description of the interactions among the Federal Procurement Data System, the System for Award Management (as described under subpart 4.11 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations) and comparable systems run by the Small Business Administration and recommendations for improving each system to reduce errors in reporting size status; and recommendations on how to improve the accuracy of the goaling reports required under section 15(h) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 644(h) ). Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Small Contractors Improve Competition Act of 2015, the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate containing the results of the study conducted under paragraph (1). In this subsection, the following definitions shall apply: The term Federal agency has the meaning given such term in section 3(b) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632(b) ). The term Federal Procurement Data System means the system referred to in section 1122(a)(4)(A) of title 41, United States Code, or any successor system. The term small business concern has the meaning given such term under section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ).
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Including subcontracting goals in agency responsibilities; reports
Pub. L.Pub. L. 112-239
Stat.126 Stat. 2076
Stat.10 Stat. 2076
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