‘‘(4) The value of each certified claim received by 
the Department to date. 
‘‘(5) The value of any usage of the project’s con-
tingency fund to date and the value of the remainder 
of the project’s contingency fund. 
‘‘(6) An enumerated list of each request for ad-
justment and certified claim that remains out-
standing or unresolved. 
‘‘(7) An enumerated list of each request for equi-
table adjustment and certified claim that has been 
fully adjudicated or that the Department has settled, 
and the final dollar amount of each adjudication or 
settlement. 
‘‘(8) The date of estimated completion specified 
in the proposed allocation of capital construction and 
maintenance funds required by the Committees on 
Appropriations not later than 45 days after the date 
of the enactment of an Act making appropriations for 
the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-
lated programs. 
‘‘(9) The current date of estimated completion.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of the Department of State Authorities Act, Fis-
cal Year 2017 is amended by amending the item relating 
to section 118 to read as follows: 
‘‘Sec. 118. Biannual report on overseas capital construction projects.’’. 
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SEC. 1204. CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE INFORMATION. 
(a) DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION.—The Secretary of 
State shall complete all contractor performance evaluations 
outstanding as of the date of the enactment of this Act re-
quired by subpart 42.15 of the Federal Acquisition Regula-
tion for those contractors engaged in construction of new 
embassy or new consulate compounds by April 1, 2022. 
(b) PRIORITIZATION SYSTEM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State shall develop a prioritization system for clear-
ing the current backlog of required evaluations re-
ferred to in subsection (a). 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The system required under 
paragraph (1) should prioritize the evaluations as fol-
lows: 
(A) Project completion evaluations should be 
prioritized over annual evaluations. 
(B) Evaluations for relatively large con-
tracts should have priority. 
(C) Evaluations that would be particularly 
informative for the awarding of government con-
tracts should have priority. 
(c) BRIEFING.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
brief the appropriate congressional committees on the De-
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partment’s plan for completing all evaluations by April 1, 
2022, in accordance with subsection (a) and the 
prioritization system developed pursuant to subsection (b). 
(d) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that— 
(1) contractors deciding whether to bid on De-
partment contracts would benefit from greater under-
standing of the Department as a client; and 
(2) the Department should develop a forum 
where contractors can comment on the Department’s 
project management performance. 
SEC. 1205. GROWTH PROJECTIONS FOR NEW EMBASSIES 
AND CONSULATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each new United States em-
bassy compound (NEC) and new consulate compound 
project (NCC) in or not yet in the design phase as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Department of State 
shall project growth over the estimated life of the facility 
using all available and relevant data, including the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Relevant historical trends for Department 
personnel and personnel from other agencies rep-
resented at the NEC or NCC that is to be constructed. 
(2) An analysis of the tradeoffs between risk and 
the needs of United States Government policy con-
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ducted as part of the most recent Vital Presence Vali-
dation Process, if applicable. 
(3) Reasonable assumptions about the strategic 
importance of the NEC or NCC, as the case may be, 
over the life of the building at issue. 
(4) Any other data that would be helpful in pro-
jecting the future growth of NEC or NCC. 
(b) OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES.—The head of each 
Federal agency represented at a United States embassy or 
consulate shall provide to the Secretary, upon request, 
growth projections for the personnel of each such agency 
over the estimated life of each embassy or consulate, as the 
case may be. 
(c) BASIS FOR ESTIMATES.—The Department of State 
shall base its growth assumption for all NECs and NCCs 
on the estimates required under subsections (a) and (b). 
(d) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.—Any congres-
sional notification of site selection for a NEC or NCC sub-
mitted after the date of the enactment of this Act shall in-
clude the growth assumption used pursuant to subsection 
(c). 
SEC. 1206. LONG-RANGE PLANNING PROCESS. 
(a) PLANS REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act and annually 
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thereafter for the next five years as the Secretary of 
State considers appropriate, the Secretary shall de-
velop— 
(A) a comprehensive 6-year plan docu-
menting the Department’s overseas building pro-
gram for the replacement of overseas diplomatic 
posts taking into account security factors under 
the Secure Embassy Construction and Counter-
terrorism Act of 1999 and other relevant statutes 
and regulations, as well as occupational safety 
and health factors pursuant to the Occupational 
Safety and Health Act of 1970 and other rel-
evant statutes and regulations, including envi-
ronmental factors such as indoor air quality that 
impact employee health and safety; and 
(B) a comprehensive 6-year plan detailing 
the Department’s long-term planning for the 
maintenance and sustainment of completed dip-
lomatic posts, which takes into account security 
factors under the Secure Embassy Construction 
and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 and other rel-
evant statutes and regulations, as well as occu-
pational safety and health factors pursuant to 
the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 
and other relevant statutes and regulations, in-
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cluding environmental factors such as indoor air 
quality that impact employee health and safety. 
(2) INITIAL REPORT.—The first plan developed 
pursuant to paragraph (1)(A) shall also include a 
one-time status report on existing small diplomatic 
posts and a strategy for establishing a physical diplo-
matic presence in countries in which there is no cur-
rent physical diplomatic presence and with which the 
United States maintains diplomatic relations. Such 
report, which may include a classified annex, shall 
include the following: 
(A) A description of the extent to which 
each small diplomatic post furthers the national 
interest of the United States. 
(B) A description of how each small diplo-
matic post provides American Citizen Services, 
including data on specific services provided and 
the number of Americans receiving services over 
the previous year. 
(C) A description of whether each small 
diplomatic post meets current security require-
ments. 
(D) A description of the full financial cost 
of maintaining each small diplomatic post. 
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(E) Input from the relevant chiefs of mis-
sion on any unique operational or policy value 
the small diplomatic post provides. 
(F) A recommendation of whether any small 
diplomatic posts should be closed. 
(3) UPDATED
INFORMATION.—The annual up-
dates of each of the plans developed pursuant to para-
graph (1) shall highlight any changes from the pre-
vious year’s plan to the ordering of construction and 
maintenance projects. 
(b) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) SUBMISSION OF PLANS TO CONGRESS.—Not 
later than 60 days after the completion of each plan 
required under subsection (a), the Secretary of State 
shall submit the plans to the appropriate congres-
sional committees. 
(2) REFERENCE IN BUDGET JUSTIFICATION MA-
TERIALS.—In the budget justification materials sub-
mitted to the appropriate congressional committees in 
support of the Department of State’s budget for any 
fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the Presi-
dent under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code), the plans required under subsection (a) shall 
be referenced to justify funding requested for building 
and maintenance projects overseas. 
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(3) FORM
OF
REPORT.—Each report required 
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassi-
fied form but may include a classified annex. 
(c) SMALL DIPLOMATIC POST DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘small diplomatic post’’ means any United 
States embassy or consulate that has employed five or fewer 
United States Government employees or contractors on av-
erage over the 36 months prior to the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 1207. VALUE ENGINEERING AND RISK ASSESSMENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Federal departments and agencies are re-
quired to use value engineering (VE) as a manage-
ment tool, where appropriate, to reduce program and 
acquisition costs pursuant to OMB Circular A–131, 
Value Engineering, dated December 31, 2013. 
(2) OBO has a Policy Directive and Standard 
Operation Procedure, dated May 24, 2017, on con-
ducting risk management studies on all international 
construction projects. 
(b) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) SUBMISSION
TO
AUTHORIZING
COMMIT-
TEES.—Any operating plan that includes the alloca-
tion of capital construction and maintenance funds 
shall be submitted to the Committee on Foreign Rela-
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tions of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs of the House of Representatives. 
(2) REQUIREMENT TO CONFIRM COMPLETION OF 
VALUE ENGINEERING AND RISK ASSESSMENT STUD-
IES.—The notifications required under paragraph (1) 
shall include confirmation that the Department has 
completed the requisite VE and risk management 
process described in subsection (a), or applicable suc-
cessor process. 
(c) REPORTING AND BRIEFING REQUIREMENTS.—The 
Secretary of State shall provide to the appropriate congres-
sional committees upon request— 
(1) a description of each risk management study 
referred to in subsection (a)(2) and a table detailing 
which recommendations related to each such study 
were accepted and which were rejected; and 
(2) a report or briefing detailing the rationale 
for not implementing any such recommendations that 
may otherwise yield significant cost savings to the 
Department if implemented. 
SEC. 1208. BUSINESS VOLUME. 
Section 402(c)(2)(E) of the Omnibus Diplomatic Secu-
rity 
and 
Antiterrorism 
Act 
of 
1986 
(22 
U.S.C. 
4852(c)(2)(E)) is amended by striking ‘‘in 3 years’’ and 
inserting ‘‘cumulatively over 3 years’’. 
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SEC. 1209. EMBASSY SECURITY REQUESTS AND DEFI-
CIENCIES. 
The Secretary of State shall provide to the appropriate 
congressional committees, the Committee on Armed Services 
of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
Armed Services of the Senate upon request information on 
physical security deficiencies at United States diplomatic 
posts, including relating to the following: 
(1) Requests made over the previous year by 
United States diplomatic posts for security upgrades. 
(2) Significant security deficiencies at United 
States diplomatic posts that are not operating out of 
a new embassy compound or new consulate com-
pound. 
SEC. 1210. OVERSEAS SECURITY BRIEFINGS. 
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of State shall revise the Foreign 
Affairs Manual to stipulate that information on the current 
threat environment shall be provided to all United States 
Government employees under chief of mission authority 
traveling to a foreign country on official business. To the 
extent practicable, such material shall be provided to such 
employees prior to their arrival at a United States diplo-
matic post or as soon as possible thereafter. 
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SEC. 1211. CONTRACTING METHODS IN CAPITAL CON-
STRUCTION. 
(a) DELIVERY.—Unless the Secretary of State notifies 
the appropriate congressional committees that the use of the 
design-build project delivery method would not be appro-
priate, the Secretary shall make use of such method at 
United States diplomatic posts that have not yet received 
design or capital construction contracts as of the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
(b) NOTIFICATION.—Before executing a contract for a 
delivery method other than design-build in accordance with 
subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall notify the appro-
priate congressional committees in writing of the decision, 
including the reasons therefor. The notification required by 
this subsection may be included in any other report regard-
ing a new United States diplomatic post that is required 
to be submitted to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees. 
(c) PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of State shall report to the appropriate congressional 
committees regarding performance evaluation measures in 
accordance with GAO’s ‘‘Standards for Internal Control in 
the Federal Government’’ that will be applicable to design 
and construction, lifecycle cost, and building maintenance 
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