§644a Small Business Procurement Advisory Council

Summary

Creates an interagency group called the Small Business Procurement Advisory Council. The Council must make positions on proposed procurement rules that affect small businesses and send those comments to the right regulators. It must review each Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization created under section 644(k) to see if they follow that section’s rules. It must find best practices to help federal agencies use more small businesses in contracting. Once a year the Council must report to the House Committee on Small Business and the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship about comments it sent (and any outcomes), review results, and best practices for the 1-year period ending on the report date. Members are the Small Business Administration Administrator (or their designee), the Director of the Minority Business Development Agency, and the head of each agency’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. The SBA Administrator (or designee) chairs the Council, which meets when the chair calls meetings. The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council and other regulators must consider the Council’s timely comments.