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until, respectively, the report is submitted or a report con-
taining the certification in full compliance with the certifi-
cation requirement is submitted. 
(d) EXEMPTION FOR THE PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 
OF THE BLIND AND OTHER SEVERELY DISABLED PEOPLE.—This sec-
tion shall not apply to a commercial or industrial type function 
of an executive agency that is— 
(1) included on the procurement list established pursuant 
to section 8503 of this title; or 
(2) planned to be changed to performance by a qualified 
nonprofit agency for the blind or by a qualified nonprofit agency 
for other severely disabled people in accordance with chapter 
85 of this title. 
(e) INAPPLICABILITY DURING WAR OR EMERGENCY.—The provisions 
of this section shall not apply during war or during a period of 
national emergency declared by the President or Congress. 
§ 1711. Value engineering 
Each executive agency shall establish and maintain cost-effective 
procedures and processes for analyzing the functions of a program, 
project, system, product, item of equipment, building, facility, 
service, or supply of the agency. The analysis shall be— 
(1) performed by qualified agency or contractor personnel; 
and 
(2) directed at improving performance, reliability, quality, 
safety, and life cycle costs. 
§ 1712. Record requirements 
(a) MAINTAINING RECORDS ON COMPUTER.—Each executive agency 
shall establish and maintain for 5 years a computer file, by fiscal 
year, containing unclassified records of all procurements greater 
than the simplified acquisition threshold in that fiscal year. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The record established under subsection (a) shall 
include, with respect to each procurement carried out using— 
(1) competitive procedures— 
(A) the date of contract award; 
(B) information identifying the source to whom the con-
tract was awarded; 
(C) the property or services the Federal Government 
obtains under the procurement; and 
(D) the total cost of the procurement; or 
(2) procedures other than competitive procedures— 
(A) the information described in paragraph (1); 
(B) the reason under section 3304(a) of this title or section 
2304(c) of title 10 for using the procedures; and 
(C) the identity of the organization or activity that con-
ducted the procurement. 
(c) SEPARATE RECORD CATEGORY FOR PROCUREMENTS RESULTING 
IN ONE BID OR PROPOSAL.—Information included in a record pursu-
ant to subsection (b)(1) that relates to procurements resulting in 
the submission of a bid or proposal by only one responsible source 
shall be separately categorized from the information relating to 
other procurements included in the record. The record of that 
information shall be designated ‘‘noncompetitive procurements 
using competitive procedures’’. 
(d) TRANSMISSION AND DATA ENTRY OF INFORMATION.—The head 
of each executive agency shall—
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(1) ensure the accuracy of the information included in the 
record established and maintained by the agency under sub-
section (a); and 
(2) transmit in a timely manner such information to the 
General Services Administration for entry into the Federal 
Procurement Data System referred to in section 1122(a)(4) of 
this title, or any successor system. 
§ 1713. Procurement data 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) QUALIFIED HUBZONE SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN.—The term 
‘‘qualified HUBZone small business concern’’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 3(p) of the Small Business Act 
(15 U.S.C. 632(p)). 
(2) SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY 
SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED INDIVIDUALS.— 
The term ‘‘small business concern owned and controlled by 
socially and economically disadvantaged individuals’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 8(d) of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)). 
(3) SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY 
WOMEN.—The term ‘‘small business concern owned and con-
trolled by women’’ has the meaning given that term in section 
8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)) and section 
204 of the Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988 (Public 
Law 100–533, 102 Stat. 2692). 
(b) REPORTING.—Each Federal agency shall report to the Office 
of Federal Procurement Policy the number of qualified HUBZone 
small business concerns, the number of small businesses owned 
and controlled by women, and the number of small business con-
cerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvan-
taged individuals, by gender, that are first time recipients of con-
tracts from the agency. The Office shall take appropriate action 
to ascertain, for each fiscal year, the number of those small 
businesses that have newly entered the Federal market. 
CHAPTER 19—SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES 
Sec. 
1901.
Simplified acquisition procedures. 
1902.
Procedures applicable to purchases below micro-purchase threshold. 
1903.
Special emergency procurement authority. 
1904.
Certain transactions for defense against attack. 
1905.
List of laws inapplicable to contracts or subcontracts not greater than sim-
plified acquisition threshold. 
1906.
List of laws inapplicable to procurements of commercial items. 
1907.
List of laws inapplicable to procurements of commercially available off-the- 
shelf items. 
1908.
Inflation adjustment of acquisition-related dollar thresholds. 
§ 1901. Simplified acquisition procedures 
(a) WHEN PROCEDURES ARE TO BE USED.—To promote efficiency 
and economy in contracting and to avoid unnecessary burdens for 
agencies and contractors, the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall 
provide for special simplified procedures for purchases of property 
and services for amounts— 
(1) not greater than the simplified acquisition threshold; and 
(2) greater than the simplified acquisition threshold but not 
greater than $5,000,000 for which the contracting officer reason-
ably expects, based on the nature of the property or services