S.Amdt. 373

SA 373. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2018 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. RESPONSIBILITIES OF COMMERCIAL MARKET
REPRESENTATIVES.

Section 4(h) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 633(h))
is amended to read as follows:
``(h) Commercial Market Representatives.--

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``(1) Duties.--The principal duties of a commercial market
representative employed by the Administrator and reporting to
the senior official appointed by the Administrator with
responsibilities under sections 8, 15, 31, and 36 (or the
designee of the official) shall be to advance the policies
established in section 8(d)(1) relating to subcontracting,
including--
``(A) helping prime contractors to find small business
concerns that are capable of performing subcontracts;
``(B) for contractors awarded contracts containing the
clause described in section 8(d)(3), providing--
``(i) counseling on the responsibility of the contractor to
maximize subcontracting opportunities for small business
concerns;
``(ii) instruction on methods and tools to identify
potential subcontractors that are small business concerns;
and
``(iii) assistance to increase awards to subcontractors
that are small business concerns through visits, training,
and reviews of past performance;
``(C) providing counseling on how a small business concern
may promote the capacity of the small business concern to
contractors awarded contracts containing the clause described
in section 8(d)(3); and
``(D) conducting periodic reviews of contractors awarded
contracts containing the clause described in section 8(d)(3)
to assess compliance with subcontracting plans required under
section 8(d)(6).
``(2) Certification requirements.--
``(A) In general.--Consistent with the requirements of
subparagraph (B), a commercial market representative referred
to in section 15(q)(3) shall have a Level I Federal
Acquisition Certification in Contracting (or any successor
certification) or the equivalent Department of Defense
certification.
``(B) Delay of certification requirement.--The
certification described in subparagraph (A) is not required--
``(i) for any person serving as a commercial market
representative on the date of enactment of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, until the
date that is 1 calendar year after the date on which the
person was appointed as a commercial market representative;
or
``(ii) for any person serving as a commercial market
representative on or before November 25, 2015, until November
25, 2020.
``(3) Job posting requirements.--The duties and
certification requirements described in this subsection shall
be included in any initial job posting for the position of a
commercial market representative.''.
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