To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available for expenses in carrying out the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act may be used to enter into noncompetitive contracts based upon the unusual and compelling urgency exception under Federal contracting law unless the contract is limited in time, scope, and value as necessary to respond to the immediate emergency.

SA 4624. Mr. OBAMA (for himself and Mr. Coburn) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5441, making
appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 99, line 4, insert after ``Act'' the following: ``:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available under this heading may be used to
enter into contracts using procedures based upon the unusual
and compelling urgency exception to competitive procedures
requirements under section 303(c)(2) of the Federal Property
and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253(c)(2))
or section 2304(c)(2) of title 10, United States Code, unless
the contract is for the procurement of only such property and
services as are necessary to address the immediate emergency
and is only for so long as is necessary to put competitive
procedures in place in connection with such procurement and
the Secretary of Homeland Security notifies the Committees on
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives
of such contract not later than 7 days after the contract is
entered into''.
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