(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 until the date that is four years after such 
date of enactment, the Secretary shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a comprehensive re-
port 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-
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. 
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‘‘(3) The value of each request for equitable ad-
justment received by the Department to date. 
‘‘(4) The value of each certified claim received 
by the Department 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 
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.’’. 
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(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. 204. 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, 2021. 
(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 referred to 
in subsection (a). 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The system required under 
paragraph (1) should prioritize the evaluations as 
follows: 
(A) Project completion evaluations should 
be prioritized over annual evaluations. 
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(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 of State shall 
brief the appropriate congressional committees on the De-
partment’s plan for completing all evaluations by October 
1, 2021, in accordance with subsection (a) and the 
prioritization system developed pursuant to subsection (b). 
(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. 
SEC. 205. 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 Office of Manage-
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ment Policy, Rightsizing, and Innovation of the Depart-
ment shall project growth over the estimated life of the 
facility using all available and relevant data, including the 
following: 
(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. 
(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. 
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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. 206. 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 six-year Long-Range 
Overseas Buildings Plan (LROBP) docu-
menting the Department’s overseas building 
program for the replacement of overseas diplo-
matic posts taking 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 regula-
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tions, including environmental factors such as 
indoor air quality that impact employee health 
and safety; and 
(B) a comprehensive six-year plan detailing 
the Department’s long-term planning for the 
maintenance and sustainment of completed dip-
lomatic posts, known as a Long-Range Overseas 
Maintenance Plan (LROMP), which takes into 
account 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 each 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 each 
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, United 
States Code), the plans outlined in the LROBP and 
LROMP shall be referenced to justify funding re-
quested for building and maintenance projects over-
seas. 
(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 
section, the term ‘‘small diplomatic post’’ means any 
United States consulate that has employed five or fewer 
United States Government employees on average over the 
36 months prior to the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 207. 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-
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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.—The proposed allocation of capital construc-
tion and maintenance funds that is required by the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives not later than 45 days 
after the date of the enactment of an Act making 
appropriations for the Department of State, foreign 
operations, and related programs shall also be sub-
mitted 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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(c) REPORTING AND BRIEFING REQUIREMENTS.— 
The Secretary 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 de-
tailing 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. 208. BUSINESS VOLUME. 
Section 402(c)(2)(E) of the Omnibus Diplomatic Se-
curity 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’’. 
SEC. 209. EMBASSY SECURITY REQUESTS AND DEFI-
CIENCIES. 
The Secretary shall provide to the appropriate con-
gressional committees upon request information on secu-
rity deficiencies at United States diplomatic posts, includ-
ing relating to the following: 
(1) Requests made over the previous year by 
United States diplomatic posts for security up-
grades. 
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