Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Small Business Scorecard Enhancements Act of 2022”.
Small Business Scorecard Enhancements Act of 2022
A BILL
To amend the Small Business Act to codify the scorecard program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Codification of Small Business Administration scorecard
In general— Section 868(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (15 U.S.C. 644 note) is transferred to section 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644), inserted after subsection (x), redesignated as subsection (y), and amended—
by striking paragraphs (1), (6), and (7);
by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively;
by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (6);
in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated), by striking “Beginning in” and all that follows through “to evaluate” and inserting “The Administrator shall use a scorecard to annually evaluate”;
in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated)—
in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)—
by striking “developed under paragraph (1)”; and
by inserting “and Governmentwide” after “each Federal agency”; and
in subparagraph (A), by striking “section 15(g)(1)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)(1)(B))” and inserting “subsection (g)(1)(B)”;
in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated)—
in subparagraph (A), by striking “paragraph (3)(A)” and inserting “paragraph (2)(A)”; and
in subparagraph (B), by striking “paragraph (3)” and inserting “paragraph (2)”;
by inserting after paragraph (3) (as so redesignated) the following new paragraph:
“(4) Additional requirements for scorecards—The scorecard shall include, for each Federal agency and Governmentwide, the following information with respect to prime contracts:
“(A) The number (expressed as a percentage) and total dollar amount of awards made to small business concerns owned and controlled by women through sole source contracts and competitions restricted to small business concerns owned and controlled by women under section 8(m).
“(B) The number (expressed as a percentage) and total dollar amount of awards made to small business concerns owned and controlled by qualified HUBZone small business concerns through sole source contracts and competitions restricted to qualified HUBZone small business concerns under section 31(c)(2).
“(C) The number (expressed as a percentage) and total dollar amount of awards made to small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans through sole source contracts and competitions restricted to small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans under section 36.
“(D) The number (expressed as a percentage) and total dollar amount of awards made to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns under section 8(a) through sole source contracts and competitions restricted to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, disaggregated by awards made to such concerns that are owned and controlled by individuals and awards made to such concerns that are owned and controlled by an entity.”
in paragraph (5), by striking “section 15(h)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(h)(2))” and inserting “subsection (h)(2)”; and
by amending paragraph (6) (as so redesignated) to read as follows:
“(6) Scorecard defined—In this subsection, the term scorecard means any summary using a rating system to evaluate the efforts of a Federal agency to meet goals established under subsection (g)(1)(B) that—
“(A) includes the information described in paragraph (2); and
“(B) assigns a score to each Federal agency evaluated.”
Conforming amendments—
Section 15(x)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(x)(2)) is amended by striking “scorecard described in section 868(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (15 U.S.C. 644 note)” and inserting “scorecard (as defined in subsection (y))”.
Section 3(6) of the PRICE Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–88; 41 U.S.C. 1101 note) is amended to read as follows:
“(6) Scorecard—The term “scorecard” has the meaning given in section 15(y) of the Small Business Act.”