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(e) INAPPLICABILITY DURING WAR OR EMERGENCY.—The provisions of 
this section shall not apply during war or during a period of national emer-
gency declared by the President or Congress. 
§ 1711. Value engineering 
Each executive agency shall establish and maintain cost-effective proce-
dures and processes for analyzing the functions of a program, project, sys-
tem, 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 acquisi-
tion threshold in that fiscal year. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The record established under subsection (a) shall in-
clude, 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 contract 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 conducted 
the procurement. 
(c) SEPARATE RECORD CATEGORY FOR PROCUREMENTS RESULTING IN 
ONE BID OR PROPOSAL.—Information included in a record pursuant 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 cat-
egorized from the information relating to other procurements included in 
the record. The record of that information shall be designated ‘‘noncompeti-
tive 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 es-
tablished and maintained by the agency under subsection (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 SO-
CIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED INDIVIDUALS.—The term 
‘‘small business concern owned and controlled by socially and economi-
cally 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 controlled 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 Fed-
eral 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 concerns owned and controlled by socially 
and economically disadvantaged individuals, by gender, that are first time 
recipients of contracts from the agency. The Office shall take appropriate 
action to ascertain, for each fiscal year, the number of those small busi-
nesses 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 simplified acqui-
sition 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 
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