‘‘(6) The payment terms, the methodology used 
to calculate outcome payments, the payment sched-
ule, and performance thresholds. 
‘‘(7) The project budget. 
‘‘(8) The project timeline. 
‘‘(9) The project eligibility criteria. 
‘‘(10) The evaluation design. 
‘‘(11) The metrics that will be used to deter-
mine whether the outcomes have been achieved and 
how these metrics will be measured. 
‘‘(12) The estimate of the savings to the Fed-
eral, State, and local government, on a program-by- 
program basis and in the aggregate, if the contract 
is entered into and implemented and the outcomes 
are achieved. 
‘‘SEC. 2054. FEASIBILITY STUDY FUNDING. 
‘‘(a) REQUESTS
FOR FUNDING
FOR FEASIBILITY 
STUDIES.—The Director shall reserve a portion of the 
funding provided in section 2057 to assist States or local 
governments in developing feasibility studies required by 
section 2052. To be eligible to receive funding to assist 
with completing a feasibility study, a State or local govern-
ment shall submit an application for feasibility study fund-
ing containing the following information: 
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‘‘(1) A description of the outcome goals of the 
social impact partnership project. 
‘‘(2) A description of the intervention, including 
anticipated program design, target population, an 
estimate regarding the number of individuals to be 
served, and setting for the intervention. 
‘‘(3) Evidence to support the likelihood that 
such intervention will produce the desired outcomes. 
‘‘(4) A description of the potential metrics to be 
used. 
‘‘(5) The expected social benefits to participants 
who receive the intervention and others who may be 
impacted. 
‘‘(6) Estimated costs to conduct the project. 
‘‘(7) Estimates of Federal, State, and local gov-
ernment savings and other savings if the project is 
implemented and the outcomes are achieved. 
‘‘(8) An estimated timeline for implementation 
and completion of the project, which shall not exceed 
10 years. 
‘‘(9) With respect to a project for which the 
State or local government selects an intermediary to 
operate the project, any partnerships needed to suc-
cessfully execute the project and the ability of the 
intermediary to foster such partnerships. 
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‘‘(10) The expected resources needed to com-
plete the feasibility study for the State or local gov-
ernment to apply for social impact partnership fund-
ing under section 2052. 
‘‘(b) FEDERAL SELECTION OF APPLICATIONS FOR 
FEASIBILITY STUDY.—Not later than 6 months after re-
ceiving an application for feasibility study funding under 
subsection (a), the Director, in consultation with the Fed-
eral Interagency Council on Social Impact Partnerships 
and the head of any Federal agency administering a simi-
lar intervention or serving a population similar to that 
served by the project, shall select State or local govern-
ment feasibility study proposals for funding based on the 
following: 
‘‘(1) The likelihood that the proposal will 
achieve the desired outcomes. 
‘‘(2) The value of the outcomes expected to be 
achieved. 
‘‘(3) The potential savings to the Federal Gov-
ernment if the social impact partnership project is 
successful. 
‘‘(4) The potential savings to the State and 
local governments if the project is successful. 
‘‘(c) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.—Not later than 30 days 
after selecting a State or local government for feasibility 
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study funding under this section, the Director shall cause 
to be published on the website of the Federal Interagency 
Council on Social Impact Partnerships information ex-
plaining why a State or local government was granted fea-
sibility study funding. 
‘‘(d) FUNDING RESTRICTION.— 
‘‘(1) FEASIBILITY
STUDY
RESTRICTION.—The 
Director may not provide feasibility study funding 
under this section for more than 50 percent of the 
estimated total cost of the feasibility study reported 
in the State or local government application sub-
mitted under subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) AGGREGATE RESTRICTION.—Of the total 
amount appropriated under section 2057, the Direc-
tor may not use more than $10,000,000 to provide 
feasibility study funding to States or local govern-
ments under this section. 
‘‘(3) NO GUARANTEE OF FUNDING.—The Direc-
tor shall have the option to award no funding under 
this section. 
‘‘(e) SUBMISSION
OF
FEASIBILITY
STUDY
RE-
QUIRED.—Not later than six months after the receipt of 
feasibility study funding under this section, a State or 
local government receiving such funding shall complete the 
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feasibility study and submit the study to the Federal 
Interagency Council on Social Impact Partnerships. 
‘‘SEC. 2055. EVALUATIONS. 
‘‘(a) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—For each State or 
local government awarded a social impact partnership 
project approved by the Director under this Act, the head 
of the relevant agency, as determined by the Federal 
Interagency Council on Social Impact Partnerships, shall 
enter into a contract with such State or local government 
to pay for the independent evaluation to determine wheth-
er the State or local government project has met an out-
come specified in the contract in order for the State or 
local government to receive outcome payments under this 
subtitle. 
‘‘(b) EVALUATOR QUALIFICATIONS.—The head of the 
relevant agency may not enter into a contract with a State 
or local government unless the head determines that the 
evaluator is independent of the other parties to the con-
tract and has demonstrated substantial experience in con-
ducting rigorous evaluations of program effectiveness in-
cluding, where available and appropriate, well-imple-
mented randomized controlled trials on the intervention or 
similar interventions. 
‘‘(c) METHODOLOGIES TO BE USED.—The evalua-
tion used to determine whether a State or local govern-
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ment will receive outcome payments under this subtitle 
shall use experimental designs using random assignment 
or other reliable, evidence-based research methodologies, 
as certified by the Federal Interagency Council on Social 
Impact Partnerships, that allow for the strongest possible 
causal inferences when random assignment is not feasible. 
‘‘(d) PROGRESS REPORT.— 
‘‘(1) SUBMISSION
OF
REPORT.—The inde-
pendent evaluator shall— 
‘‘(A) not later than two years after a 
project has been approved by the Director and 
biannually thereafter until the project is con-
cluded, submit to the head of the relevant agen-
cy and the Federal Interagency Council on So-
cial Impact Partnerships a written report sum-
marizing the progress that has been made in 
achieving each outcome specified in the con-
tract; and 
‘‘(B) at the scheduled time of the first out-
come payment and at the time of each subse-
quent payment, submit to the head of the rel-
evant agency and the Federal Interagency 
Council on Social Impact Partnerships a writ-
ten report that includes the results of the eval-
uation conducted to determine whether an out-
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‘‘(2) advise and assist the Director in the devel-
opment and implementation of such projects; 
‘‘(3) advise the Director on specific pro-
grammatic and policy matter related to such 
projects; 
‘‘(4) provide subject-matter expertise to the Of-
fice of Management and Budget with regard to such 
projects; 
‘‘(5) ensure that each State or local government 
that has entered into a contract with the Director 
for a social impact partnership project under this 
subtitle and each evaluator selected by the head of 
the relevant agency under section 2055 has access to 
Federal administrative data to assist the State or 
local government and the evaluator in evaluating the 
performance and outcomes of the project; 
‘‘(6) address issues that will influence the fu-
ture of social impact partnership projects in the 
United States; 
‘‘(7) provide guidance to the executive branch 
on the future of social impact partnership projects 
in the United States; 
‘‘(8) review State and local government applica-
tions for social impact partnerships to ensure that 
contracts will only be awarded under this subtitle 
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