S.Amdt. 2612

SA 2612. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself and Mr. Wicker) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5515, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF EQUIPMENT RENTAL.

(a) Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Equipment Rental.--
(1) In general.--With respect to any cost-effectiveness
analysis for equipment acquisition conducted on or after the
date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the head of each executive agency shall consider
equipment rental in such cost-effectiveness analysis.
(2) Federal acquisition regulation.--The Federal
Acquisition Regulation shall be revised to implement the
requirement under paragraph (1).
(b) Study of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.--Not later than 2
years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a comprehensive report on
the decisions made by the executive agencies with the highest
levels of acquisition spending, and a sample of executive
agencies with lower levels of acquisition spending, to
acquire high-value equipment by lease, rental, or purchase
pursuant to subpart 7.4 of the Federal Acquisition
Regulation.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Equipment rental.--The term ``equipment rental'' means
the acquisition of equipment by contract from a commercial
source for a temporary period of use with no fixed duration.
(2) Executive agency.--The term ``executive agency'' has
the meaning given that term in section 102 of title 40,
United States Code.
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