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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1981

To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949

to require executive agencies to procure property and services related

to motor vehicle pools or systems only under contracts awarded under

competitive procedures in accordance with rules issued by the Director

of the Office of Management and Budget and to report to the Director

regarding costs associated with agency operation of motor vehicle fleets.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 30, 1995

Mr. FRANKS of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. BARRETT of Nebraska, Mr.

CANADY of Florida, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, Mr. FOLEY, Mr.

GILLMOR, Mr. KLUG, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. LUTHER, Mr. PAXON, Mr.

POSHARD, Mr. RIGGS, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. SMITH of Texas, and Mr. ZIMMER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee

on Government Reform and Oversight

A BILL

To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services

Act of 1949 to require executive agencies to procure

property and services related to motor vehicle pools or

systems only under contracts awarded under competitive

procedures in accordance with rules issued by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and to

report to the Director regarding costs associated with

agency operation of motor vehicle fleets.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Efficient Fleet Man3 agement Act of 1995’’.

4 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PROCURE PROPERTY AND SERV5 ICES RELATED TO MOTOR VEHICLE POOLS

6 AND SYSTEMS ONLY UNDER COMPETITIVE

7 PROCEDURES.

8 Section 211 of the Federal Property and Administra9 tive Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 491) is amended by

10 adding at the end the following:

11 ‘‘(m)(1) Not later than October 1, 1996, the Director

12 of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue rules

13 which establish procedures and requirements for the

14 award by executive agencies of contracts for procurement

15 of property and services related to motor vehicle pools and

16 systems. Rules issued under this paragraph shall—

17 ‘‘(A) cover all aspects of acquisition, service,

18 maintenance, operation, and disposal with respect to

19 those pools and systems;

20 ‘‘(B) require compliance with competitive proce21 dures in the award of all such contracts; and

22 ‘‘(C) establish requirements for determining

23 cost efficiencies under paragraph (3)(A).

24 ‘‘(2) After the issuance of rules under paragraph (1),

25 an executive agency may not procure property and services

26 related to a motor vehicle pool or system except—
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1 ‘‘(A) under a contract awarded under competi2 tive procedures in accordance with those rules; and

3 ‘‘(B) subject to the supervision of the Director

4 of the Office of Management and Budget.

5 ‘‘(3)(A) The head of an executive agency may use

6 Federal Government personnel to operate a motor vehicle

7 fleet of the agency rather than contracting for the procure8 ment of motor vehicle fleet services from private sector

9 sources, only if there are demonstrated greater cost-effi10 ciencies achieved by agency operation of the fleet, by not

11 later than—

12 ‘‘(i) 1 year after the date of the enactment of

13 the Efficient Fleet Management Act of 1995, in the

14 case of a motor vehicle fleet operated on that date

15 of enactment; or

16 ‘‘(ii) 1 year after the date on which a motor ve17 hicle fleet is first operated by Federal Government

18 personnel, in the case of a fleet first operated after

19 that date of enactment.

20 ‘‘(B) Each report under this paragraph shall in21 clude—

22 ‘‘(i) all direct costs incurred by the Federal

23 Government related to inventory, repair facilities,

24 depreciation, and preventative maintenance for

25 motor vehicle fleet activities;
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1 ‘‘(ii) all overhead costs incurred by the Federal

2 Government related to those activities, including

3 travel, training, printing, telephones, and data proc4 essing activities;

5 ‘‘(iii) a description of all actions that led to the

6 awarding of the contract and a review of all reforms

7 of agency fleet management, such as the establish8 ment of a revolving fund, the elimination of poten9 tially restrictive solicitations, or the conduct of ap10 propriate utilization assessments to determine the

11 right size of a fleet; and

12 ‘‘(iv) such other costs and information regard13 ing those activities as the Director may require.

14 ‘‘(4) In this subsection:

15 ‘‘(A) The term ‘competitive procedures’ has the

16 meaning given that term in section 4 of the Office

17 of Federal Procurement Policy Act.

18 ‘‘(B) The term ‘Director’ means the Director of

19 the Office of Management and Budget.

20 ‘‘(C) Notwithstanding section 3, the term ‘exec21 utive agency’ has the meaning given that term in

22 section 102 of title 31, United States Code, except

23 that term does not include—

24 ‘‘(i) the Department of Defense (or any

25 agency in that department); and
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1 ‘‘(ii) the United States Postal Service.’’.

2 SEC. 3. REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURES BY EXECUTIVE

3 AGENCIES FOR MOTOR VEHICLE POOLS AND

4 SYSTEMS.

5 (a) REDUCTION.—Notwithstanding any other law,

6 the amount expended by all executive agencies in each of

7 fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 for oper8 ation of motor vehicle pools and systems shall be reduced

9 by $200,000,000 (or approximately 10 percent) below the

10 amount expended by all executive agencies for that oper11 ation in fiscal year 1995.

12 (b) EXECUTIVE AGENCY DEFINED.—In this section,

13 the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the meaning given that

14 term in section 102 of title 31, United States Code, except

15 that term does not include—

16 (1) the Department of Defense (or any agency

17 in that department); and

18 (2) the United States Postal Service.

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