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(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the requirements of this section, sec-
tion 4106 of this title, and other applicable law, the head of an execu-
tive agency may enter into a task order contract for procurement of 
advisory and assistance services. 
(2) ONLY UNDER THIS SECTION.—The head of an executive agency 
may enter into a task order contract for advisory and assistance serv-
ices only under this section. 
(c) CONTRACT PERIOD.— 
(1) CONTRACT NOT TO EXCEED 5 YEARS.—The period of a task 
order contract entered into under this section, including all periods of 
extensions of the contract under options, modifications, or otherwise, 
may not exceed 5 years unless a longer period is specifically authorized 
in a law that is applicable to the contract. 
(2) WAIVER AUTHORITY TO EXTEND CONTRACT.— 
(A) WHEN WAIVER MAY BE ISSUED.—The head of an executive 
agency may issue a waiver to extend a task order contract entered 
into under this section for a period not exceeding 10 years, 
through 5 one-year options, if the head of the agency determines 
in writing— 
(i) that the contract provides engineering or technical serv-
ices of such a unique and substantial technical nature that 
award of a new contract would be harmful to the continuity 
of the program for which the services are performed; 
(ii) that award of a new contract would create a large dis-
ruption in services provided to the executive agency; and 
(iii) that the executive agency would, through award of a 
new contract, endure program risk during critical program 
stages due to loss of program corporate knowledge of ongoing 
program activities. 
(B) DELEGATION.—The authority of the head of an executive 
agency under subparagraph (A) may be delegated only to the 
Chief Acquisition Officer of the agency (or the senior procurement 
executive in the case of an agency for which a Chief Acquisition 
Officer has not been appointed or designated under section 
1702(a) of this title). 
(C) REPORT.—Not later than April 1, 2007, the Administrator 
shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives a report on 
advisory and assistance services. The report shall include the fol-
lowing information:
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(i) The methods used by executive agencies to identify a 
contract as an advisory and assistance services contract, as 
defined in subsection (a). 
(ii) The number of advisory and assistance services con-
tracts awarded by each executive agency during the 5-year 
period preceding October 17, 2006. 
(iii) The average annual expenditures by each executive 
agency for advisory and assistance services contracts. 
(iv) The average length of advisory and assistance services 
contracts. 
(v) The number of advisory and assistance services con-
tracts recompeted and awarded to the previous award winner. 
(D) PROHIBITION ON USE OF AUTHORITY BY EXECUTIVE AGEN-
CIES
IF
REPORT
NOT
SUBMITTED.—The head of an executive 
agency may not issue a waiver under subparagraph (A) if the re-
port required by subparagraph (C) is not submitted by April 1, 
2007. 
(E) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—A waiver may not be issued 
under this paragraph after December 31, 2011. 
(d) CONTENT OF NOTICE.—The notice required by section 1708 of this 
title and section 8(e) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(e)) shall 
reasonably and fairly describe the general scope, magnitude, and duration 
of the proposed task order contract in a manner that would reasonably en-
able a potential offeror to decide whether to request the solicitation and con-
sider submitting an offer. 
(e) REQUIRED CONTENT OF SOLICITATION AND CONTRACT.— 
(1) SOLICITATION.—The solicitation shall include the information 
(regarding services) described in section 4103(b) of this title. 
(2) CONTRACT.—A task order contract entered into under this sec-
tion shall contain the same information that is required by paragraph 
(1) to be included in the solicitation of offers for that contract. 
(f) MULTIPLE AWARDS.— 
(1) AUTHORITY TO MAKE MULTIPLE AWARDS.—On the basis of one 
solicitation, the head of an executive agency may award separate task 
order contracts under this section for the same or similar services to 
2 or more sources if the solicitation states that the head of the execu-
tive agency has the option to do so. 
(2) CONTENT OF SOLICITATION.—In the case of a task order con-
tract for advisory and assistance services to be entered into under this 
section, if the contract period is to exceed 3 years and the contract