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the first day of January, April, July, and October of 
each year, or on the first business day after such 
20th day if such 20th day is not’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘semiannual period’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘quarterly period’’. 
SEC. 407. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) SECTION 402.—Section 402 and the amendments 
made by that section take effect upon the expiration of 
the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
(b) AMENDMENTS.—The amendments made by sec-
tions 403, 404, 405, and 406 take effect on the first day 
of the first quarterly period described in section 5(a) of 
the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1604(a)) 
that begins after the end of the 90-day period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
TITLE V—TRANSPARENCY IN 
FEDERAL CONTRACTING 
SEC. 501. IMPROVING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTER-
FACE AND WEB SITE DATA ELEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2 of the Federal Funding 
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 
109–282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) in paragraph (2)(A)(ii), by striking 
‘‘and delivery orders’’ and inserting ‘‘lease 
agreements and assignments, and delivery or-
ders’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) programmatically search and access 
all data in a serialized machine readable format 
(such as XML) via a web-services application 
programming interface.’’; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) CONGRESSIONALLY
DIRECTED
SPENDING 
ITEM.—The term ‘congressionally directed spending 
item’ means a provision or report language included 
primarily at the request of a Member of Congress 
providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific 
amount of discretionary budget authority, credit au-
thority, or other spending authority for a contract, 
loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other 
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expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a 
specific State, locality, or congressional district, 
other than through a statutory or administrative for-
mula-driven or competitive award process.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as 
subparagraph (J); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (E) 
the following new subparagraphs: 
‘‘(G) to the extent possible, the Federal 
agency, including the bureau, office, or subdivi-
sion, that authorized the Federal award; 
‘‘(H) after January 1, 2012, for all con-
tracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, task or-
ders, lease agreements and assignments, and 
delivery orders— 
‘‘(i) information about the extent of 
competition in making the award, includ-
ing the number of bids or proposals deter-
mined to be responsive during the competi-
tive process, and if the award was not com-
peted, the legal authority and specific ra-
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tionale for making the award without full 
and open competition; 
‘‘(ii) the full amount of money that is 
awarded under a contract or, in the case of 
lease agreements or assignments, the 
amount paid to the Government, and the 
full amount of any options to expand or 
extend under a contract; 
‘‘(iii) the amount of the profit incen-
tive, such as award fees; 
‘‘(iv) the type of contract, such as 
fixed price, cost plus pricing, labor hour 
contracts, and time and materials con-
tracts; 
‘‘(v) an indication if the contract is 
the result of legislative mandates, set- 
asides, preference program requirements, 
or other criteria, and whether the contract 
is multi-year, consolidated, or performance 
based; and 
‘‘(vi) an indication if the contract is a 
congressionally directed spending item; 
‘‘(I) after January 1, 2012, for all grants, 
subgrants, loans, awards, cooperative agree-
ments, and other forms of financial assistance, 
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an indication if the funding is a congressionally 
directed spending item; and’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided, the amendments made by subsection (a) shall be 
implemented not later than 6 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 502. IMPROVING DATA QUALITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Funding Account-
ability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109– 
282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as amended by section 501, 
is further amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 5. IMPROVING DATA QUALITY. 
‘‘(a) INSPECTOR GENERAL DATA AUDIT.—Each In-
spector General shall annually audit for the previous fiscal 
year the data used on the website created by this Act for 
the relevant Federal agency of the Inspector General, in 
compliance with generally accepted Government auditing 
standards, and submit a report on such audit to the Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget that includes 
at least the following: 
‘‘(1) A review of data used for the website to 
verify accuracy of the data and assess the process 
used for improving data quality. 
‘‘(2) A review of a statistically representative 
sample of Federal awards to determine whether Fed-
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