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Presidential Memorandum

Establishing an Interagency Task Force on Federal Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses

This memorandum creates an Interagency Task Force on Federal Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses, co-chaired by the Secretary of Commerce, OMB Director, and SBA Administrator. The Task Force must deliver proposals within 120 days to increase small business contracting, and a website for transparency must be developed within 90 days to track small business participation in federal procurement.

Federal Register Open PDF 75 FR 22499

Impact dates

  1. Task Force proposals and recommendations for increasing small business contracting due

  2. Website illustrating small business participation in Federal contracting due

Key directives

  • Establish Interagency Task Force on Federal Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses
  • Task Force shall provide proposals and recommendations to President within 120 days
  • Develop website illustrating small business participation in Federal contracting within 90 days
  • Task Force shall conduct outreach with small business representatives
  • Agency heads shall assist and provide information to Task Force

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Task Force establishment
  • Co-Chairs designated

Near term (90d)

  • Website for transparency and accountability due

Long term

  • Task Force proposals and recommendations due within 120 days

Risks & tensions

  • Goals are aspirational (23% small business, 5% women-owned, etc.) with no enforcement mechanism
  • Memorandum explicitly disclaims creating enforceable rights (Section 6(b))
  • Implementation subject to availability of appropriations (Section 6(a))
  • Prior inconsistent achievement of statutory goals suggests structural barriers may persist
Presidential Memorandum: Establishing an Interagency Task Force on Federal Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses · Executive Orders