S.Amdt. 259

SA 259. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 in title VIII, insert the
following:

SEC. __. DOCUMENTATION OF MARKET RESEARCH RELATED TO
COMMERCIAL ITEM DETERMINATIONS.

(a) In General.--Section 2377(c) of title 10, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new
paragraph:
``(4) The head of an agency shall document the results of
market research in a manner appropriate to the size and
complexity of the acquisition.''.
(b) Conforming Amendment Related to Prospective
Amendment.--Section 836(d)(3)(C)(ii) of the John S. McCain
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
(Public Law 115-232) is amended by striking ``in paragraph
(4)'' and inserting ``in paragraph (5)''.
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