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HR 818 · 119th Congress · HouseIn committee

SPUR Act

In plain language: Federal agencies will now be graded on how many first-time small businesses they hire for government contracts instead of repeatedly using familiar vendors. Annual agency scorecards must track prime contracts awarded to newcomers across different industries and compare the results to the previous year. The evaluations will specifically tally new contracts awarded to businesses owned by women, service-disabled veterans, and socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, as well as companies in economically distressed communities.

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People affected—Not determinable from the text; the bill modifies agency reporting and evaluation metrics rather than defining a specific beneficiary population or quota.
Fiscal magnitude$0.0provisional · pending reviewSection 3 explicitly prohibits the authorization of any additional federal funds to carry out the Act.
Reach15provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
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Issues

What this bill touches.

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Who it affects

Who it helps · who it burdens.

Who it helps

  • First-time small business federal contractorsReceive targeted tracking and evaluation in federal agency procurement scorecards, incentivizing federal agencies to award prime contracts to businesses that have not previously won one (Sec. 2).provisional

Who it burdens

  • Federal procuring agenciesMust collect data on and be evaluated on the number of first-time small business prime contractors they award contracts to, broken down by industry code and specific demographic categories, without receiving any new funding to carry out the reporting (Sec. 2, Sec. 3).provisional

Dollar-level funding (FEC sector totals) is coming in a later phase.

What it does

The provisions, in plain language.

  1. Requires federal agency small business contracting scorecards to track and evaluate the number of first-time small business prime contractors awarded contracts in each industry classification, including breakdowns for service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone, disadvantaged, and women-owned businesses, compared to the previous fiscal year.

    Sec. 2provisional

  2. Prohibits the authorization of any additional federal funds to carry out the requirements of this Act.

    Sec. 3provisional

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Timeline

How it moved.

  1. Feb 25, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
  2. Feb 24, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  3. Feb 24, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 384 - 25 (Roll no. 45). (text: CR H740)
  4. Feb 24, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 384 - 25 (Roll no. 45). (text: CR H740)
  5. Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House
  6. Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House

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