S.Amdt. 5973

SA 5973. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Ms. Hirono) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 D of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 866. CONSIDERATION OF NATIVE SMALL BUSINESS SISTER SUBSIDIARY PAST PERFORMANCE.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall amend section 215.305 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement (or any successor regulation) to require that when Native-owned small businesses bid on Department of Defense contracts, the past performance evaluation and source selection processes shall consider the past performance information of sister subsidiary predecessor companies of the Native-owned small businesses.