To require the Secretary of Defense to report on certain contracts and awards to small business concerns, and for other purposes.

This bill would require the Department of Defense, through its Office of Small Business Programs, to study contracts valued at or below the simplified acquisition threshold. The study would check whether the Department is fully considering and applying requirements related to small businesses. Within 180 days, the Secretary of Defense would have to send a report to the Armed Services and Small Business committees of Congress. The report would cover five years of contract dollar amounts, the share going to small businesses, reasons contracts were not set aside for small businesses, patterns of contracts that should have been set aside, and recommended changes to law or policy.

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• Hillary J. Scholten Democrat sponsor
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