(1) determine which Government publications 
could be available on Government Web sites and no 
longer printed and to devise a strategy to reduce 
overall Government printing costs over the 10-year 
period beginning with fiscal year 2015, except that 
the Director shall ensure that essential printed docu-
ments prepared for Social Security recipients, Medi-
care beneficiaries, and other populations in areas 
with limited Internet access or use continue to re-
main available; 
(2) establish Governmentwide Federal guide-
lines on employee printing; and 
(3) issue on the Office of Management and 
Budget’s public Web site the results of a cost-benefit 
analysis on implementing a digital signature system 
and on establishing employee printing identification 
systems, such as the use of individual employee 
cards or codes, to monitor the amount of printing 
done by Federal employees, except that the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget shall en-
sure that Federal employee printing costs unrelated 
to national defense, homeland security, border secu-
rity, national disasters, and other emergencies do 
not exceed $860,000,000 annually. 
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SEC. 302. ELIMINATING BONUSES FOR POOR PERFORM-
ANCE BY GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS. 
(a) GUIDANCE ON LINKING OF AWARD AND INCEN-
TIVE FEES TO OUTCOMES.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, each Federal depart-
ment or agency shall issue guidance, with detailed imple-
mentation instructions (including definitions), on the ap-
propriate use of award and incentive fees in department 
or agency programs. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The guidance under subsection (a) 
shall— 
(1) ensure that all new contracts using award 
fees link such fees to outcomes (which shall be de-
fined in terms of program cost, schedule, and per-
formance); 
(2) establish standards for identifying the ap-
propriate level of officials authorized to approve the 
use of award and incentive fees in new contracts; 
(3) provide guidance on the circumstances in 
which contractor performance may be judged to be 
excellent or superior and the percentage of the avail-
able award fee which contractors should be paid for 
such performance; 
(4) establish standards for determining the per-
centage of the available award fee, if any, which con-
tractors should be paid for performance that is 
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judged to be acceptable, average, expected, good, or 
satisfactory; 
(5) ensure that no award fee may be paid for 
contractor performance that is judged to be below 
satisfactory performance or performance that does 
not meet the basic requirements of the contract; 
(6) provide specific direction on the cir-
cumstances, if any, in which it may be appropriate 
to roll over award fees that are not earned in one 
award fee period to a subsequent award fee period 
or periods; 
(7) ensure that the Department or agency— 
(A) collects relevant data on award and in-
centive fees paid to contractors; and 
(B) has mechanisms in place to evaluate 
such data on a regular basis; and 
(8) include performance measures to evaluate 
the effectiveness of award and incentive fees as a 
tool for improving contractor performance and 
achieving desired program outcomes. 
(c) RETURN OF UNEARNED BONUSES.—Any funds 
intended to be awarded as incentive fees that are not paid 
due to contractors’ inability to meet the criteria estab-
lished by this section shall be returned to the Treasury. 
Æ 
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