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the General Services Administration, in order to adequately 
collect, develop, and disseminate procurement data; and 
(B) ensuring executive agency compliance with the record 
requirements of section 1712 of this title; 
(5) providing for and directing the activities of the Federal 
Acquisition Institute (including recommending to the Adminis-
trator of General Services a sufficient budget for those activi-
ties), which shall be located in the General Services Administra-
tion, in order to— 
(A) foster and promote the development of a professional 
acquisition workforce Government-wide; 
(B) promote and coordinate Government-wide research 
and studies to improve the procurement process and the 
laws, policies, methods, regulations, procedures, and forms 
relating to acquisition by the executive agencies; 
(C) collect data and analyze acquisition workforce data 
from the Office of Personnel Management, from the heads 
of executive agencies, and, through periodic surveys, from 
individual employees; 
(D) periodically analyze acquisition career fields to iden-
tify critical competencies, duties, tasks, and related aca-
demic prerequisites, skills, and knowledge; 
(E) coordinate and assist agencies in identifying and 
recruiting highly qualified candidates for acquisition fields; 
(F) develop instructional materials for acquisition per-
sonnel in coordination with private and public acquisition 
colleges and training facilities; 
(G) evaluate the effectiveness of training and career 
development programs for acquisition personnel; 
(H) promote the establishment and utilization of aca-
demic programs by colleges and universities in acquisition 
fields; 
(I) facilitate, to the extent requested by agencies, inter-
agency intern and training programs; and 
(J) perform other career management or research func-
tions as directed by the Administrator; 
(6) administering section 1703(a) to (i) of this title; 
(7) establishing criteria and procedures to ensure the effective 
and timely solicitation of the viewpoints of interested parties 
in the development of procurement policies, regulations, proce-
dures, and forms; 
(8) developing standard contract forms and contract language 
in order to reduce the Federal Government’s cost of procuring 
property and services and the private sector’s cost of doing 
business with the Federal Government; 
(9) providing for a Government-wide award to recognize and 
promote vendor excellence; 
(10) providing for a Government-wide award to recognize 
and promote excellence in officers and employees of the Federal 
Government serving in procurement-related positions; 
(11) developing policies, in consultation with the Adminis-
trator of the Small Business Administration, that ensure that 
small businesses, qualified HUBZone small business concerns 
(as defined in section 3(p) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
632(p))), small businesses owned and controlled by socially and 
economically disadvantaged individuals, and small businesses 
owned and controlled by women are provided with the max-
imum practicable opportunities to participate in procurements
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that are conducted for amounts below the simplified acquisition 
threshold; 
(12) developing policies that will promote achievement of 
goals for participation by small businesses, small business con-
cerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, quali-
fied HUBZone small business concerns (as defined in section 
3(p) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p))), small 
businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically 
disadvantaged individuals, and small businesses owned and 
controlled by women; and 
(13) completing action, as appropriate, on the recommenda-
tions of the Commission on Government Procurement. 
(b) CONSULTATION AND ASSISTANCE.—In carrying out the func-
tions in subsection (a), the Administrator— 
(1) shall consult with the affected executive agencies, 
including the Small Business Administration; 
(2) with the concurrence of the heads of affected executive 
agencies, may designate one or more executive agencies to 
assist in performing those functions; and 
(3) may establish advisory committees or other interagency 
groups to assist in providing for the establishment, develop-
ment, and maintenance of a single system of simplified Govern-
ment-wide procurement regulations and to assist in performing 
any other function the Administrator considers appropriate. 
(c) ASSIGNMENT, DELEGATION, OR TRANSFER.— 
(1) TO ADMINISTRATOR.—Except as otherwise provided by law, 
only duties, functions, or responsibilities expressly assigned 
by this division shall be assigned, delegated, or transferred 
to the Administrator. 
(2) BY ADMINISTRATOR.— 
(A) WITHIN OFFICE.—The Administrator may make and 
authorize delegations within the Office of Federal Procure-
ment Policy that the Administrator determines to be nec-
essary to carry out this division. 
(B) TO ANOTHER EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The Administrator 
may delegate, and authorize successive redelegations of, 
an authority, function, or power of the Administrator under 
this division (other than the authority to provide overall 
direction of Federal procurement policy and to prescribe 
policies and regulations to carry out the policy) to another 
executive agency with the consent of the head of the execu-
tive agency or at the direction of the President. 
§ 1123. Small business concerns 
In formulating the Federal Acquisition Regulation and procedures 
to ensure compliance with the Regulation, the Administrator, in 
consultation with the Small Business Administration, shall— 
(1) conduct analyses of the impact on small business concerns 
resulting from revised procurement regulations; and 
(2) incorporate into revised procurement regulations sim-
plified bidding, contract performance, and contract administra-
tion procedures for small business concerns.
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§ 1124. Tests of innovative procurement methods and proce-
dures 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator may develop innovative 
procurement methods and procedures to be tested by selected execu-
tive agencies. In developing a program to test innovative procure-
ment methods and procedures under this subsection, the Adminis-
trator shall consult with the heads of executive agencies to— 
(1) ascertain the need for and specify the objectives of the 
program; 
(2) develop the guidelines and procedures for carrying out 
the program and the criteria to be used in measuring the 
success of the program; 
(3) evaluate the potential costs and benefits which may be 
derived from the innovative procurement methods and proce-
dures tested under the program; 
(4) select the appropriate executive agencies or components 
of executive agencies to carry out the program; 
(5) specify the categories and types of products or services 
to be procured under the program; and 
(6) develop the methods to be used to analyze the results 
of the program. 
(b) APPROVAL OF EXECUTIVE AGENCIES REQUIRED.—A program 
to test innovative procurement methods and procedures may not 
be carried out unless approved by the heads of the executive agen-
cies selected to carry out the program. 
(c) REQUEST FOR WAIVER OF LAW.—If the Administrator deter-
mines that it is necessary to waive the application of a provision 
of law to carry out a proposed program to test innovative procure-
ment methods and procedures under subsection (a), the Adminis-
trator shall transmit notice of the proposed program to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate and request that the Committees 
take the necessary action to provide that the provision of law 
does not apply with respect to the proposed program. The notifica-
tion to Congress shall include— 
(1) a description of the proposed program (including the scope 
and purpose of the proposed program); 
(2) the procedures to be followed in carrying out the proposed 
program; 
(3) the provisions of law affected and the application of any 
provision of law that must be waived in order to carry out 
the proposed program; and 
(4) the executive agencies involved in carrying out the pro-
posed program. 
§ 1125. Recipients of Federal grants or assistance 
(a) AUTHORITY.—With due regard to applicable laws and the 
program activities of the executive agencies administering Federal 
programs of grants or assistance, the Administrator may prescribe 
Government-wide policies, regulations, procedures, and forms that 
the Administrator considers appropriate and that executive agencies 
shall follow in providing for the procurement, to the extent required 
under those programs, of property or services referred to in section 
1121(c)(1) of this title by recipients of Federal grants or assistance 
under the programs. 
(b) LIMITATION.—Subsection (a) does not—