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Jan 22, 1997To amend the Small Business Act to strengthen existing protections for small business participation in Federal contracting opportunities, to provide for assessments of the impacts on small businesses of the steadily increasing use of contract bundling by the procurement activities of the various Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
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Small Business Opportunity Preservation Act of 1997 - Amends the Small Business Act to state as a policy under such Act that each Federal agency: (1) foster the participation of small businesses as prime contractors; (2) structure its contracting requirements to facilitate competition by and among small businesses; (3) avoid contract bundling (the practice of consolidating two or more...
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Introduced(1/7/97)
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Mr. WYNN
(D) MD – 4
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.
Jan 22, 1997