Sec. 10. GAO STUDY ON MULTIPLE AWARD WINNERS
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## SEC. 10 GAO STUDY ON MULTIPLE AWARD WINNERS Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study and submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a report, which shall be made publicly available, on small business concerns that are awarded not less than 50 Phase II awards under the SBIR or STTR programs during the consecutive period of 10 fiscal years preceding the most recent 2 fiscal years, including, to the extent practicable, an analysis of— ####
(1)the impact of the small business concerns on the SBIR and STTR programs; ####
(2)the ratio of the number of Phase II awards received by the small business concerns to the total number of Phase II awards; ####
(3)the ability of the small business concerns to commercialize and meet the tenets of the SBIR and STTR programs; ####
(4)the impact on new entrants and seeding technology necessary to the Federal agency mission or commercial markets and, with respect to the Department of Defense, whether the types of technology the small business concerns are pursuing are primarily hardware, software, or system components for the warfighter; ####
(5)an evaluation and study of varying levels of award caps and lifetime program earning caps; ####
(6)an assessment of the increased minimum performance standards under paragraph
(3)of section 9(qq) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(qq)), as added by section 8, on the behavior of those concerns and on the SBIR and STTR programs, and whether to continue such increased minimum performance standards; and ####
(7)recommendations on whether alternative minimum performance standards under section 9(qq) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(qq)) should be considered, and the extent to which such alternative minimum performance standards preserve the competitive, merit-based foundation of the SBIR and STTR programs.
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