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(4) through other awards, incentives, or bo-
nuses that the head of the agency considers appro-
priate. 
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL REFORMS 
SEC. 501. MAXIMIZING THE BENEFIT OF THE FEDERAL 
STRATEGIC SOURCING INITIATIVE. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Administrator for Federal Procure-
ment Policy shall prescribe regulations providing that 
when the Federal Government makes a purchase of serv-
ices and supplies offered under the Federal Strategic 
Sourcing Initiative (managed by the Office of Federal Pro-
curement Policy) but such Initiative is not used, the con-
tract file for the purchase shall include a brief analysis 
of the comparative value, including price and nonprice fac-
tors, between the services and supplies offered under such 
Initiative and services and supplies offered under the 
source or sources used for the purchase. 
SEC. 502. GOVERNMENTWIDE SOFTWARE PURCHASING 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of General 
Services, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, 
shall identify and develop a strategic sourcing initiative 
to enhance Governmentwide acquisition, shared use, and 
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dissemination of software, as well as compliance with end 
user license agreements. 
(b) EXAMINATION OF METHODS.—In developing the 
initiative under subsection (a), the Administrator shall ex-
amine the use of realistic and effective demand aggrega-
tion models supported by actual agency commitment to 
use the models, and supplier relationship management 
practices, to more effectively govern the Government’s ac-
quisition of information technology. 
(c) GOVERNMENTWIDE
USER
LICENSE
AGREE-
MENT.—The Administrator, in developing the initiative 
under subsection (a), shall allow for the purchase of a li-
cense agreement that is available for use by all executive 
agencies as one user to the maximum extent practicable 
and as appropriate. 
SEC. 503. PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY OF BLANKET PUR-
CHASE AGREEMENTS. 
(a) PRICE INFORMATION TO BE TREATED AS PUB-
LIC INFORMATION.—The final negotiated price offered by 
an awardee of a blanket purchase agreement shall be 
treated as public information. 
(b) PUBLICATION OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREE-
MENT INFORMATION.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 
General Services shall make available to the public a list 
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of all blanket purchase agreements entered into by Federal 
agencies under its Federal Supply Schedules contracts and 
the prices associated with those blanket purchase agree-
ments. The list and price information shall be updated at 
least once every 6 months. 
SEC. 504. ADDITIONAL SOURCE SELECTION TECHNIQUE IN 
SOLICITATIONS. 
Section 3306(d) of title 41, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph 
(1); 
(2) by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; or’’ 
at the end of paragraph (2); and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) stating in the solicitation that the award 
will be made using a fixed price technical competi-
tion, under which all offerors compete solely on 
nonprice factors and the fixed award price is pre-an-
nounced in the solicitation.’’. 
SEC. 505. ENHANCED TRANSPARENCY IN INFORMATION 
TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS. 
(a) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION ABOUT 
IT INVESTMENTS.—Section 11302(c) of title 40, United 
States Code, is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Director shall 
make available to the public the cost, schedule, 
and performance data for all of the IT invest-
ments listed in subparagraph (B), notwith-
standing whether the investments are for new 
IT acquisitions or for operations and mainte-
nance of existing IT. 
‘‘(B) INVESTMENTS LISTED.—The invest-
ments listed in this subparagraph are the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) At least 80 percent (by dollar 
value) of all information technology invest-
ments Governmentwide. 
‘‘(ii) At least 60 percent (by dollar 
value) of all information technology invest-
ments in each Federal agency listed in sec-
tion 901(b) of title 31. 
‘‘(iii) Every major information tech-
nology investment (as defined by the Office 
of Management and Budget) in each Fed-
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eral agency listed in section 901(b) of title 
31. 
‘‘(C) QUARTERLY
REVIEW
AND
CERTIFI-
CATION.—For each investment listed in sub-
paragraph (B), the agency Chief Information 
Officer and the program manager of the invest-
ment within the agency shall certify, at least 
once every quarter, that the information is cur-
rent, accurate, and reflects the risks associated 
with each listed investment. The Director shall 
conduct quarterly reviews and publicly identify 
agencies with an incomplete certification or 
with significant data quality issues. 
‘‘(D) CONTINUOUS
AVAILABILITY.—The 
information required under subparagraph (A), 
in its most updated form, shall be publicly 
available at all times. 
‘‘(E) WAIVER
OR
LIMITATION
AUTHOR-
ITY.—The applicability of subparagraph (A) 
may be waived or the extent of the information 
may be limited— 
‘‘(i) by the Director, with respect to 
IT investments Governmentwide; and 
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