S.Amdt. 4242

SA 4242. Mr. PETERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle H of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 899C. NOTIFICATION TO SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS REGARDING
PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTERS.

Section 2418 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(d)(1) The Secretary of Defense, in partnership with
eligible entities and the Administrator of General Services,
shall notify small business concerns that have successfully
registered in the System for Award Management referenced in
subpart 4.11 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation that once
their registration is complete free procurement technical
assistance is available pursuant to procurement technical
assistance cooperative agreements.
``(2) In this subsection, the term `small business concern'
has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(a)).''.
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