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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 6845 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require officials of the Department of Defense to provide a briefing |
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| 6 | 6 | | on the implementation of category management memorandum, and for |
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| 7 | 7 | | other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | DECEMBER15, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. T |
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| 11 | 11 | | HANEDARintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on Armed Services |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To require officials of the Department of Defense to provide |
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| 15 | 15 | | a briefing on the implementation of category manage- |
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| 16 | 16 | | ment memorandum, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Equitable Contracting 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | and Small Business Advancement Act’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. BRIEFING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CAT-6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | EGORY MANAGEMENT MEMORANDUM. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) B |
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| 25 | 25 | | RIEFINGREQUIRED.—Not later than 120 days 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 9 |
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| 30 | 30 | | thereafter, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | and Sustainment and the Director of the Office of Small 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Business Programs of the Department of Defense shall 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | jointly provide to the appropriate congressional commit-4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | tees a briefing on the implementation of the memorandum 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Sustainment entitled ‘‘Achieving Small Business Goals 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | through Category Management Practices’’ and dated Jan-8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | uary 27, 2023. 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) C |
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| 40 | 40 | | ONTENTS.—Each briefing required under sub-10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | section (a) shall include the following: 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) The effects of the implementation of the 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | memorandum described in subsection (a) on con-13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | tracting opportunities for small businesses. 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) The tools and data analysis that are being 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | used to support small business concerns in procure-16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ment decisions to increase small business opportuni-17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ties. 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (3) The strategic efforts that have been taken 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | to achieve the small business participation goals of 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | the Department of Defense through the use of exist-21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ing and open market contracts to reach a mix of 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | new entrants, seasoned 8(a) companies, and other 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | small disadvantaged businesses. 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (4) The opportunities that have been identified 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | to transition from bundled or consolidated contracts 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | without small business participation to contracts 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | with small business participation or to use small 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | business set-aside competition. 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (5) The metrics the Department of Defense has 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | established to measure the effects of the implemen-7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | tation of the memorandum described in subsection 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (a) on opportunities for small businesses to contract 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | with the Department. 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (6) The success stories of small business par-11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ticipation with the Department of Defense that the 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Department has identified and is sharing in industry 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | engagements. 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (7) The sufficiency of the educational resources 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | identified in the memorandum described in sub-16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | section (a). 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (8) Any recommendations on additional steps 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | the Department of Defense can take to maximize 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | small business participation with the Department 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | through category management practices. 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (c) A |
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| 80 | 80 | | PPROPRIATECONGRESSIONALCOMMITTEESDE-22 |
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| 81 | 81 | | FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-23 |
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| 82 | 82 | | sional committees’’ means— 24 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (1) the Committees on Armed Services and 1 |
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| 87 | 87 | | Small Business of the House of Representatives; and 2 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (2) the Committees on Armed Services and on 3 |
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| 89 | 89 | | Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate. 4 |
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