pound project that does not utilize a design-build delivery 
method. 
SEC. 202. CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 118 of the Department of 
State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 304) 
is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘AN-
NUAL
REPORT
ON
EMBASSY
CONSTRUCTION 
COSTS’’ and inserting ‘‘QUARTERLY REPORT ON 
OVERSEAS
CAPITAL
CONSTRUCTION 
PROJECTS’’; and 
(2) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and in-
serting the following new subsections: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this subsection and every 90 
days thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a comprehensive report 
regarding all ongoing overseas capital construction 
projects and major embassy security upgrade projects. 
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each report required under sub-
section (a) shall include the following with respect to each 
ongoing overseas capital construction project and major 
embassy security upgrade project: 
‘‘(1) The initial cost estimate as specified in the 
proposed allocation of capital construction and main-
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tenance funds required by the Committees on Appro-
priations for Acts making appropriations for the De-
partment of State, foreign operations, and related 
programs. 
‘‘(2) The current cost estimate. 
‘‘(3) The value of each request for equitable ad-
justment received by the Department of State to 
date. 
‘‘(4) The value of each certified claim received 
by the Department of State to date. 
‘‘(5) The value of any usage of the project’s 
contingency fund to date and the value of the re-
mainder 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 eq-
uitable 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 
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date of the enactment of an Act making appropria-
tions for the Department of State, foreign oper-
ations, and related programs. 
‘‘(9) The current date of estimated comple-
tion.’’. 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—The first report required 
under subsection (a) of section 118 of the Department of 
State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (as amended by 
this section) shall include an annex regarding all overseas 
capital construction projects and major embassy security 
upgrade projects completed during the 10-year period end-
ing on December 31, 2018, including, for each such 
project, the elements specified in subsection (b) of such 
section 118. 
SEC. 203. CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE INFORMATION. 
(a) DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETION.—The Secretary 
shall complete all contractor performance evaluations re-
quired by subpart 42.15 of the Federal Acquisition Regu-
lation by October 1, 2020. 
(b) PRIORITIZATION SYSTEM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall develop a prioritization system for clearing the 
current backlog of required evaluations. 
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(2) ELEMENTS.—The system required under 
paragraph (1) should prioritize the evaluations as 
follows: 
(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 
contracts should have priority. 
(c) BRIEFING.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall brief the 
appropriate congressional committees on the Depart-
ment’s plan for completing all evaluations by October 1, 
2020, and the prioritization system developed pursuant to 
this section. 
(d) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) contractors deciding whether to bid on De-
partment contracts would benefit from greater un-
derstanding of the Department as a client; and 
(2) the Department should develop a forum 
where contractors can rate the Department’s project 
management performance. 
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SEC. 204. GROWTH PROJECTIONS FOR NEW EMBASSIES 
AND CONSULATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each new embassy 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 Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing, 
and Innovation of the Department shall project growth 
over the estimated life of the facility using all available 
and relevant data, including— 
(1) relevant historical trends for Department 
personnel and personnel from other agencies rep-
resented at the NEC or NCC that is to be con-
structed; 
(2) an analysis of the tradeoffs between risk 
and the needs of United States Government policy 
conducted as part of the most recent Vital Presence 
Validation 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; and 
(4) any other data that would be helpful in pro-
jecting the future growth of NEC or NCC. 
(b) OTHER AGENCIES.—Other agencies represented 
at the post shall provide to the Department, upon request, 
growth projections for their own personnel over the esti-
mated life of the facility. 
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(c) BASIS FOR ESTIMATES.—The Department 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 
include the growth assumption used pursuant to sub-
section (c). 
SEC. 205. 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 an-
nually thereafter for five years, the Secretary shall 
develop— 
(A) a comprehensive 6-year Long-Range 
Overseas Buildings Plan (LROBP) docu-
menting the Department’s overseas building 
program for the replacement of overseas diplo-
matic facilities taking into account security fac-
tors under the Secure Embassy Construction 
and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 and other 
relevant statutes and regulations, as well as oc-
cupational safety and health factors pursuant to 
the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 
1970 and other relevant statutes and regula-
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tions, including environmental 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 fa-
cilities, known as a Long-Range Overseas Main-
tenance Plan (LROMP), which takes into ac-
count security factors under the Secure Em-
bassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 
1999 and other relevant statutes and regula-
tions, as well as occupational safety and health 
factors pursuant to the Occupational Safety 
and Health Act of 1970 and other relevant 
statutes and regulations, including environ-
mental 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 dip-
lomatic presence in countries in which there is no 
current physical diplomatic presence. Such report, 
which may include a classified annex, shall include 
the following: 
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(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. 
(E) Input from the relevant chiefs of mis-
sion on any unique operational or policy value 
the small diplomatic post provides. 
(3) UPDATED INFORMATION.—The annual up-
dates of the plans developed pursuant to paragraph 
(1) shall highlight any changes from the previous 
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 the 
LROBP and the LROMP, the Secretary shall sub-
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mit the plans to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees. 
(2) REFERENCE
IN
BUDGET
JUSTIFICATION 
MATERIALS.—In the budget justification materials 
submitted to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees in support of the Department’s budget for any 
fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the 
President under section 1105(a) of title 31), the 
plans outlined in the LROBP and LROMP shall be 
referenced to justify funding requested for building 
and maintenance projects overseas. 
(3) FORM
OF
REPORT.—The 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 
section, the term ‘‘small diplomatic post’’ means any con-
sulate that has employed five or fewer United States Gov-
ernment employees on average over the 36 months prior 
to the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 206. VALUE ENGINEERING AND RISK ASSESSMENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) Federal departments and agencies are re-
quired to use value engineering (VE) as a manage-
ment tool, where appropriate, to reduce program and 
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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.—The proposed allocation of capital construc-
tion and maintenance funds that is required by the 
Committees on Appropriations not later than 45 
days after the date of the enactment of an Act mak-
ing appropriations for the Department of State, for-
eign operations, and related programs shall also be 
submitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives. 
(2) REQUIREMENT TO CONFIRM COMPLETION 
OF
VALUE
ENGINEERING
AND
RISK
ASSESSMENT 
STUDIES.—The notifications required under para-
graph (1) shall include confirmation that the De-
partment has completed the requisite VE and risk 
management studies described in subsection (a). 
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(3) 
RELEVANT
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘relevant congressional commit-
tees’’ means— 
(A) the appropriate congressional commit-
tees; 
(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the Senate; and 
(C) the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives. 
(4) SECURITY VIOLATION.—The term ‘‘security 
violation’’ means any knowing, willful, or neg-
ligent— 
(A) disclosure to unauthorized persons of 
information properly classified; 
(B) improper classification or continued 
classification of information; or 
(C) improper creation or continuation of a 
special access program. 
(5) SPILLAGE.—The term ‘‘spillage’’ means a 
security incident that occurs whenever classified 
data is disclosed in an unauthorized manner, includ-
ing the transfer either onto an unclassified informa-
tion system or to an information system with a lower 
level of classification. 
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