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House Bill 5297
118th Congress(2023-2024)
Defense Small Business Past Performance Consideration Act of 2023
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Introduced in House on Aug 29, 2023
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H. R. 5297 (Introduced-in-House)


118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 5297


To require the Secretary of Defense to amend the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to include consideration of past performance of affiliates of small business concerns, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

August 29, 2023

Mr. Bacon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

A BILL

To require the Secretary of Defense to amend the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to include consideration of past performance of affiliates of small business concerns, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Defense Small Business Past Performance Consideration Act of 2023”.

SEC. 2. Consideration of past performance of affiliates of small business concerns.

Not later than July 1, 2024, the Secretary of Defense shall amend section 215.305 of the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (or any successor regulation) to—

(1) require that when evaluating a bid from a small business concern (as defined under section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)) for a Department of Defense contract, the contracting officer for such contract shall consider the past performance information of affiliates of such concern as the past performance of such concern; and

(2) ensure that only past performance information of such affiliates during the nine-year period preceding the date on which such concern submitted a bid described in paragraph (1) is considered as past performance of such concern.