S. 4552 – Extension of Authority to Acquire Innovative Commercial Items Act of 2022

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The bill extends the Department of Defense’s program that lets it buy innovative commercial items using general solicitation. It raises the spending limit for such purchases from $10 million to $25 million, clarifies what counts as a commercial product and what is considered innovative, and pushes the program’s end date from 2022 to 2027. The changes affect defense procurement of new technologies and commercial services.

Key Provisions

Increases the authority spending ceiling for acquiring innovative commercial items from $10 million to $25 million.
Adds definitions: “commercial product” aligns with the FAR’s “commercial item” definition and includes commercial services; “innovative” covers new technologies, processes, methods, or new applications of existing ones.
Extends the program’s authorization period by changing the end year from 2022 to 2027.

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Introduced in Senate

July 19, 2022

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

July 19, 2022

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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

August 3, 2022

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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

September 20, 2022

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Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4877; text: CR S4877)

September 20, 2022

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Message on Senate action sent to the House.

September 21, 2022

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Received in the House.

September 21, 2022 • 12:03 PM

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Held at the desk.

September 21, 2022 • 12:08 PM

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What members said about S. 4552 on the floor

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Sen. Richard J. DurbinD-IL · Sep 20, 2022

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs be discharged from further consideration of S. 4552 and the Senate proceed to its immediate…

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Engrossed in SenateIssued September 20, 2022

117th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 4552

AN ACT

To extend the program for authority to acquire innovative commercial items using general solicitation procedures.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Extension of Authority to Acquire Innovative Commercial Items Act of 2022.

2.

Innovative commercial items

Section 880 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (41 U.S.C. 3301 note) is amended—

(1)

in subsection (c), by striking $10,000,000 and inserting $25,000,000;

(2)

by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:

(f)

Definitions

In this section—

(1)

the term commercial product—

(A)

has the meaning given the term commercial item in section 2.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation; and

(B)

includes a commercial product or a commercial service, as those terms are defined in sections 103 and 103a, respectively, of this title; and

(2)

the term innovative means—

(A)

any new technology, process, or method, including research and development; or

(B)

any new application of an existing technology, process, or method.

; and

(3)

in subsection (g), by striking 2022 and inserting 2027.

Passed the Senate September 20, 2022.

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