HR8879119th Congress
Oversight and Transparency for Small Business Certifications Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD-2]
Passed House
Summary
Annual, budget-aligned reporting on small business certifications is required to make federal contracting data clearer. The bill would force the Small Business Administration to publish program-by-program, disaggregated counts and timing metrics for certification decisions.
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- Small businesses: Shows the total number of unique certified firms and the outcomes of certification applications across designated contracting programs. This reveals who gets certified and how many applications remain undecided.
- Service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses: Requires the number of applications certified, denied, and pending plus timing measures such as average decision time and the share decided within SBA timeframes.
- Women-owned small businesses: Tracks certified counts, how many are eligible for sole-source awards, how many were processed by national certifiers, denials, pending cases, and decision timing including when applications lacked enough information.
- HUBZone small businesses: Requires counts of certified, denied, and pending applications and the same set of decision-time metrics as other groups.
- Administration and budget process: Directs the Administrator to submit the report with the President's annual budget and to define covered contracting programs as Sections 8(a), 8(m), 31, and 36. The report must also show applications filed through the SBA's unified platform and certifications stored outside that platform.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD-2]
MD • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8]
WI • R
Sponsored 5/19/2026
Roll Call Votes
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