S.Amdt. 1083

SA 1083. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed)
to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018
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:

At the end of section 821, add the following:
(c) Government Accountability Office Report on Frivolous
Bid Protest Standard.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall submit to Congress a report explaining
how the Government Accountability Office interprets and
implements subparagraph (A) of section 2340(a)(2) of title
10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), and, if
warranted, providing recommendations on how to amend the
frivolous protest standard defined pursuant to such
subparagraph to make sure all relevant qualitative and
quantitative factors are taken into account.
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