S.Amdt. 405

SA 405. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. INCREASING COMPETITION IN MULTIPLE-AWARD TASK OR
DELIVERY ORDER CONTRACTS AND CERTAIN FEDERAL
SUPPLY SCHEDULE CONTRACTS.

Section 3306(c) of title 41, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
(A) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``except as provided
in paragraph (3),'' before ``include cost or price''; and
(B) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``except as provided
in paragraph (3),'' before ``disclose to offerors''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(3) Increasing competition for certain multiple-award
contracts and certain federal supply schedule contracts for
services acquired on an hourly rate.--If the head of an
executive agency issues a solicitation for two or more
contracts for services to be acquired on an hourly rate basis
under the authority of sections 4103 and 4106 of this title
(multiple award task or delivery order contracts) or section
152(3) of this title and section 501(b) of title 40 (Federal
Supply Schedule contracts), then--
``(A) when the contract or contracts feature individually
competed task or delivery orders based on or built up from
hourly rates, the contracting officer need not consider cost
or price as an evaluation factor for contract award;
``(B) the disclosure requirement of subparagraph (C) of
paragraph (1) shall not apply; and
``(C) cost or price to the Federal Government shall be
considered in conjunction with the issuance of any task
pursuant to section 4106(c) of this title.''.
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