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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5726 
To improve the management and oversight of Federal contracts, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13, 2010 
Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself, Mr. HINCHEY, Ms. NORTON, Mr. POLIS of Colo-
rado, and Mr. WELCH) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To improve the management and oversight of Federal 
contracts, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Contracting 
Oversight and Reform Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 
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on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of 
Representatives. 
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. 
Section 872(e)(1) of the Clean Contracting Act of 
2008 (subtitle G of title VIII of Public Law 110–417; 41 
U.S.C. 417b(e)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘to the Chair-
man and Ranking Member of the committees of Congress 
having jurisdiction’’ and inserting ‘‘to any Member of Con-
gress’’. 
SEC. 4. COMPLIANCE. 
(a) 
SELF-REPORTING
REQUIREMENT.—Section 
872(f) of the Clean Contracting Act of 2008 (subtitle G 
of title VIII of Public Law 110–417; 41 U.S.C. 417b(f) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(f) SELF-REPORTING REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) CONTRACTS IN EXCESS OF SIMPLIFIED AC-
QUISITION THRESHOLD.—No funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available by any Act may be used for 
any Federal contract for the procurement of prop-
erty or services in excess of the simplified acquisition 
threshold unless the contractor has first made the 
certifications set forth in section 52.209–5 of the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation. 
‘‘(2) CONTRACTS IN EXCESS OF $500,000.—No 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by 
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any Act may be used for any Federal contract for 
the procurement of property or services in excess of 
$500,000 unless the contractor— 
‘‘(A) certifies that the contractor has sub-
mitted to the Administrator the information re-
quired under subsection (c) and that such infor-
mation is current as of the date of such certifi-
cation; or 
‘‘(B) certifies that the contractor has cu-
mulative active Federal contracts and grants 
with a total value of less than $10,000,000.’’. 
(b) PERIODIC INSPECTION OR REVIEW OF CONTRACT 
FILES.—Section 872(e)(2) of the Clean Contracting Act 
of 2008 (subtitle G of title VIII of Public Law 110–417; 
41 U.S.C. 417b(e)(2)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) PERIODIC INSPECTION OR REVIEW.— 
The Inspector General of each Federal agency 
shall periodically— 
‘‘(i) conduct an inspection or review of 
the contract files required under subpara-
graph (B) to determine if the agency is 
providing appropriate consideration of the 
information included in the database cre-
ated pursuant to subsection (c); and 
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‘‘(ii) submit a report containing the 
results of the inspection or review con-
ducted under clause (i) to the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform of 
the House of Representatives.’’. 
(c) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Comptroller General of 
the United States shall annually submit a report to the 
appropriate congressional committees describing the ex-
tent to which suspended or debarred contractors on the 
Excluded Parties List System— 
(1) are identified as having received Federal 
contracts on USAspending.gov; or 
(2) were granted waivers from Federal agencies 
from suspension or debarment for purposes of enter-
ing into Federal contracts. 
SEC. 5. CONSOLIDATION OF CONTRACTING INFORMATION 
DATABASES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, in consultation with the 
Administrator of General Services, shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a plan for integrating 
and consolidating existing contracting information data-
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bases, including the databases set forth in subsection (b), 
into a single searchable and linked network. 
(b) INCLUDED DATABASES.—The single network de-
scribed in subsection (a) shall include information from 
all relevant contracting information databases, includ-
ing— 
(1) the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS); 
(2) the Central Contractor Registry (CCR); 
(3) the Contractor Performance Assessment Re-
porting System (CPARS); 
(4) the Federal Assistance Award Data System 
(FAADS); 
(5) the Federal Awardee Performance and In-
tegrity Information System (FAPIIS); 
(6) the Federal Business Opportunities Data-
base (FBO); 
(7) the Federal Procurement Data System-Next 
Generation (FPDS–NG); 
(8) the Past Performance Information Retrieval 
System (PPIRS); and 
(9) USAspending.gov. 
SEC. 6. UNIQUE IDENTIFYING NUMBER. 
(a) STUDY.—The Inspector General of the General 
Services Administration shall conduct a study on the use 
of identifying numbers for Federal contractors to— 
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(1) determine if the system of contractor identi-
fying numbers in use as of the date of the enactment 
of this Act is adequately tracking Federal contrac-
tors; 
(2) assess the feasibility of developing and 
adopting a new unique Federal contractor identifica-
tion system; and 
(3) determine whether such a system would 
more effectively track Federal contractors. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-
port on the study conducted under subsection (a). 
SEC. 7. DATABASE SCOPE. 
Section 872(c) of the Clean Contracting Act of 2008 
(subtitle G of title VIII of Public Law 110–417; 41 U.S.C. 
417(c)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
striking ‘‘5-year period’’ and inserting ‘‘10-year pe-
riod’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘with the Federal Govern-
ment’’; 
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(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘In 
an administrative proceeding, a finding of fault 
and liability’’ and inserting ‘‘An administrative 
proceeding’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘with 
an acknowledgment of fault by the person’’. 
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