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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 457 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue 

guidance for, and provide oversight of, the management of micropurchases made with Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 18, 2005 

Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. FEINGOLD) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and 

Budget to issue guidance for, and provide oversight of, 

the management of micropurchases made with Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, and for other purposes. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Purchase Card Waste 

5 Elimination Act of 2005’’. 
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1 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR GUIDANCE. 

2 (a) OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET POLICY

3 GUIDANCE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 

4 the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 

5 Management and Budget shall issue guidelines to assist 

6 the heads of executive agencies in improving the manage7 ment of the use of the Governmentwide commercial pur8 chase card for making micropurchases. The Director shall 

9 include guidelines on the following matters: 

10 (1) Analysis of purchase card expenditures to 

11 identify opportunities for achieving savings through 

12 micropurchases made in economical volumes. 

13 (2) Negotiation of discount agreements with 

14 major vendors accepting the purchase card. 

15 (3) Establishment of communication programs 

16 to ensure that purchase card holders receive infor17 mation pertaining to the availability of discounts, in18 cluding programs for the training of purchase card 

19 holders on the availability of discounts. 

20 (4) Assessment of cardholder purchasing prac21 tices. 

22 (5) Collection and dissemination of best prac23 tices and successful strategies for achieving savings 

24 in micropurchases. 

25 (b) GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.—The Ad26 ministrator of General Services shall direct the purchase 
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1 card program manager of the General Services Adminis2 tration— 

3 (1) to continue efforts to improve reporting by 

4 financial institutions that issue the Governmentwide 

5 commercial purchase card so that the General Serv6 ices Administration has the data needed to identify 

7 opportunities for achieving savings; and 

8 (2) to ensure that the acquisition center con9 tracting officers of the General Services Administra10 tion actively pursue point-of-sale discounts with 

11 major vendors accepting the purchase card so that 

12 any Federal Government purchaser using the pur13 chase card can benefit from such point-of-sale dis14 counts. 

15 (c) AGENCY REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—The pur16 chase card program manager for each executive agency 

17 shall, as directed by the Director of the Office of Manage18 ment and Budget, submit to the Director periodic reports 

19 on the actions taken in such executive agency pursuant 

20 to the guidelines issued under subsection (a). 

21 (d) CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.—Not later than 

22 December 31 of the year following the year in which this 

23 Act is enacted, and December 31 of each of the ensuing 

24 three years, the Director of the Office of Management and 

25 Budget shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Secu-
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1 rity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Com2 mittee on Government Reform of the House of Represent3 atives a report summarizing the progress made during the 

4 fiscal year ending in the year in which such report is 

5 due— 

6 (1) in improving the management of the use of 

7 the Governmentwide commercial purchase card for 

8 making micropurchases; and 

9 (2) in achieving savings in micropurchases 

10 made with such card, expressed in terms of savings 

11 achieved by each executive agency and the total sav12 ings achieved Governmentwide. 

13 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

14 (1) The term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the mean15 ing given such term in section 4 of the Office of 

16 Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403). 

17 (2) The term ‘‘micropurchase’’ means a pur18 chase in an amount not in excess of the micropur19 chase threshold, as defined in section 32 of such Act 

20 (41 U.S.C. 428). 

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