NDAA has small biz provisions

Repeating a pattern seen in recent years, the House Armed Services Committee included six small business provisions in the National Defense Authorization NDAA for fiscal 2016. The NDAA has been the vehicle for small business legislative actions in recent years.

The six small business proposals in the NDAA were in a package of seven bills previously developed and passed by the House Small Business Committee.

However, the armed services committee did not back HR1429, by Rep. Mike Bost, R-IL, which also had been OK’d by the small business panel. It would have created a process for petitions for appeals of size standards at the Small Business Administration.

The six provisions approved by armed services were versions of HR1481, HR1444, HR1390, HR1386, HR1583 and HR1410. All were Republican-sponsored.

HR1481, sponsored by Rep. Steve. Chabot, R-OH, chair of the small business panel, the SBA would have to create a new methodology for its small business procurement scorecard to give more weight to subcontracts; the SBA Office of Hearing & Appeals would be established by statute; and the SBA must plan to improve reporting of bundled contracts, among other provisions.

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