Obama to sign revised NDAA

President Obama is expected to sign a revised National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2016 that includes several dozen provisions relating to small business contracting and other acquisition issues.

Obama vetoed the earlier version of the NDAA due to concern that an overseas contingency fund could be misused to avoid domestic budget caps. The new law authorizes $607 billion for defense, which is $5 billion less than in the vetoed version.

Small business provisions from the earlier NDAA (see Oct. 9 edition of Set-Aside Alert) remained unchanged, a House Small Business Committee spokesman said.

These included establishment of a statutorily independent Office of Hearings and Appeals at the SBA that would hear petitions to reconsider size standards.

Also included were measures to add subcontracting goals to agency responsibilities, require publishing of justifications for bundling, and modify the process that creates the SBA’s Procurement Scorecard, among other provisions.

More Information: 2016 NDAA: http://goo.gl/tCzLrF

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