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communicating with nontraditional suppliers, including 
commercial firms and firms of all business sizes, that are 
engaged in markets of importance to the Department of 
Defense. 
(c) OUTREACH TO LOCAL FIRMS NEAR DEFENSE IN-
STALLATIONS.—The program established under sub-
section (a) shall include outreach, using procurement tech-
nical assistance centers, to notify firms of all business 
sizes in the vicinity of Department of Defense installations 
of opportunities to obtain contracts and subcontracts to 
perform work at such installations. 
(d) INDUSTRIAL BASE REVIEW.—The program re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include a continuous effort 
to review the industrial base supporting the Department 
of Defense, including the identification of markets of im-
portance to the Department of Defense. 
(e) DEFINITION.—In this section: 
(1) NONTRADITIONAL
SUPPLIERS.—The term 
‘‘nontraditional suppliers’’ means firms that have re-
ceived contracts from the Department of Defense 
with a total value of not more than $100,000 in the 
previous 5 years. 
(2) MARKETS
OF
IMPORTANCE
TO
THE
DE-
PARTMENT
OF
DEFENSE.—The term ‘‘markets of 
importance to the Department of Defense’’ means 
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industrial sectors in which the Department of De-
fense spends more than $500,000,000 annually. 
(3) PROCUREMENT
TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE 
CENTER.—The term ‘‘procurement technical assist-
ance center’’ means a center operating under a coop-
erative agreement with the Defense Logistics Agency 
to provide procurement technical assistance pursu-
ant to the authority provided in chapter 142 of title 
10, United States Code. 
SEC. 402. COMMERCIAL PRICING ANALYSIS. 
Section 803(c) of the Strom Thurmond National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 
105–261; 10 U.S.C. 2306a note) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(c) COMMERCIAL PRICE TREND ANALYSIS.— 
‘‘(1) The Secretary of Defense shall develop and 
implement procedures that, to the maximum extent 
practicable, provide for the collection and analysis of 
information on price trends for categories of exempt 
commercial items described in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) A category of exempt commercial items re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) consists of exempt com-
mercial items that are in a single Federal Supply 
Group or Federal Supply Class, are provided by a 
single contractor, or are otherwise logically grouped 
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for the purpose of analyzing information on price 
trends. 
‘‘(3) The analysis of information on price 
trends under paragraph (1) shall include, in any cat-
egory in which significant escalation in prices is 
identified, a more detailed examination of the causes 
of escalation for such prices within the category and 
whether such price escalation is consistent across the 
Department of Defense. 
‘‘(4) The head of a Department of Defense 
agency or the Secretary of a military department 
shall take appropriate action to address any unjusti-
fied escalation in prices being paid for items pro-
cured by that agency or military department as iden-
tified in an analysis conducted pursuant to para-
graph (1). 
‘‘(5) Not later than April 1 of each of year, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee 
on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee 
on Armed Services of the House of Representatives 
a report on the analyses of price trends that were 
conducted for categories of exempt commercial items 
during the preceding fiscal year under the proce-
dures prescribed pursuant to paragraph (1). The re-
port shall include a description of the actions taken 
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to identify and address any unjustified price esca-
lation for the categories of items. 
‘‘(6) This subsection shall not be in effect on 
and after April 1, 2013.’’. 
SEC. 403. CONTRACTOR AND GRANTEE DISCLOSURE OF DE-
LINQUENT FEDERAL TAX DEBTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Chapter 37 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end of subchapter II the following new section: 
‘‘§ 3720F. Contractor and grantee disclosure of delin-
quent Federal tax debts 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT RELATING
TO CONTRACTS.— 
The head of any executive agency that issues an invitation 
for bids or a request for proposals for a contract in an 
amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold 
shall require each person that submits a bid or proposal 
to submit with the bid or proposal a form— 
‘‘(1) certifying that the person does not have a 
seriously delinquent tax debt; and 
‘‘(2) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury 
to disclose to the head of the agency information 
strictly limited to verifying whether the person has 
a seriously delinquent tax debt. 
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