S.Amdt. 2455

SA 2455. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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. 865. REMOVING THE REASONABLE EXPECTATION REQUIREMENT
FROM SOLE SOURCE CONTRACTS.

(a) Women-owned Small Business Concerns.--Section 8(m) of
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(m)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (7)(A), by striking ``and the contracting
officer'' and all that follows through ``offers''; and
(2) in paragraph (8)(A), by striking ``and the contracting
officer'' and all that follows through ``offers''.
(b) HUBZone Program.--Section 31(c)(2)(A)(i) of the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657a(c)(2)(A)(i)) is amended by
striking ``, and the contracting officer'' and all that
follows through ``offers for the contracting opportunity''.
(c) Small Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by
Service-disabled Veterans.--Section 36(c)(1) of the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f(c)(1)) is amended by striking
``and the contracting officer'' and all that follows through
``offers for the contracting opportunity''.
(d) Reporting Regarding Sole Source Contracts.--Section
15(j) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(j)) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
``(4)(A) Not later than December 31 of the first year
beginning after the date of enactment of this paragraph, and
every 2 years thereafter, the head of each Federal agency
shall submit to the Administrator and Congress and make
publicly available a report on sole source contracts awarded
during the reporting period to small business concerns owned
and controlled by women, HUBZone small business concerns (as
defined in section 31(b)), and small business concerns owned
and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
``(B) Each report required under subparagraph (A) shall,
for each small business concern described in that
subparagraph that was awarded a sole source contract during
the reporting period--
``(i) include the dollar amount and number of sole source
contracts awarded to the small business concern;
``(ii) specify the North American Industry Classification
System code assigned to the small business concern; and
``(iii) provide the aggregate amount awarded to the small
business concern under a sole source contract awarded on or
after the date of enactment of this paragraph.''.
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