S.Amdt. 1950

SA 1950. Mrs. McCASKILL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R.
1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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(2) establish a process by which the contractor may appeal
a determination by a contracting officer that an earlier
determination was made in error or was based on inadequate
information to the head of contracting for the agency; and
(3) establish a process by which a commercial item
determination can be revoked in cases where the contracting
officer has determined that an item may no longer meet the
definition of a commercial item and through a price-
reasonableness determination it is found that the Department
of Defense would pay more for the item than it had previously
or another source could provide a similar item for a lower
price.
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