S.Amdt. 2459

SA 2459. Mr. PERDUE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S. 4049, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 subtitle C of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 847. REQUIREMENT TO AWARD CONTRACTS UNDER COMMERCIAL E-
COMMERCE PORTAL PROGRAM.

(a) Accelerated Awarding of Contracts.--Section 846(a) of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
(Public Law 115-91; 41 U.S.C. 1901 note) is amended by adding
at the end the following: ``Not later than July 31, 2021, the
Administrator shall award contracts under the program to not
fewer than 10 commercial providers, including both e-
marketplace providers that do not sell their own products on
their platforms and e-commerce providers. The Administrator
may waive the requirement in the preceding sentence for up to
30 days at a time upon submitting to the appropriate
congressional committees a certification that compliance with
such requirement is not feasible, including a description of
efforts to comply with such requirement and an explanation
why, despite such efforts, compliance is not feasible.''.
(b) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than March 31, 2021, the
Administrator of General Services shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report describing how
the General Services Administration will implement paragraph
(3) of section 846(h) of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91; 41 U.S.C. 1901
note), as added by section 838(a)(2) of the John S. McCain
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
(Public Law 115-232; 132 Stat. 1876).
(2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee
on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Oversight and Reform, and the Committee on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives.
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