Title: To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Defense to consider the existence of qualified training programs of contractors in the award of certain contracts.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill requires Department of Defense (DOD) contracting officers, when evaluating offers to perform contracts greater than $25 million, to consider whether an offering entity provides training and development programs for its workforce that are consistent with DOD needs, including training through a qualified training program (e.g., a program eligible for funds under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act).

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6684 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6684

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
  Defense to consider the existence of qualified training programs of 
             contractors in the award of certain contracts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 28, 2018

  Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Ms. Clarke of New York, and Mr. 
 Johnson of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
  Defense to consider the existence of qualified training programs of 
             contractors in the award of certain contracts.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONSIDERATION OF DEFENSE CONTRACTORS WITH QUALIFIED TRAINING 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a)  Consideration of Contractors With Qualified Training 
Programs.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 141 of title 10, United States 
        Code, is amended by inserting after section 2409 the following 
        new section:
``Sec. 2409a. Consideration of contractors with qualified training 
              programs
    ``(a) Consideration.--The Secretary of Defense shall, to the 
maximum practicable, consider the existence of qualified training 
programs of contractors by requiring a contracting officer, in the 
evaluation of offers for any contract in an amount greater than 
$25,000,000--
            ``(1) to consider the existence of a qualified training 
        program of an offeror as a factor in the evaluation;
            ``(2) to give consideration to an offeror that provides 
        comprehensive training and education programs to develop its 
        workforce, consistent with needs of the Department of Defense; 
        and
            ``(3) in the consideration of past performance of an 
        incumbent contractor, to consider the manner in which the 
        incumbent contractor is educating, investing, and retaining the 
        contractor's workforce.
    ``(b) Incentives.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop workforce 
development investment incentives for contractors.
    ``(c) Qualified Training Program Defined.--The term `qualified 
training program' means any of the following:
            ``(1) A program eligible to receive funds under the 
        Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et 
        seq.).
            ``(2) A program eligible to receive funds under the Carl D. 
        Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (21 U.S.C. 
        2301 et seq.).
            ``(3) A program registered under the Act of August 16, 1937 
        (commonly known as the `National Apprenticeship Act'; Stat. 
        664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.).
            ``(4) Any other Federal program determined to be a 
        qualified training program for purposes of this section by the 
        Secretary of Defense.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
        item relating to section 2409 the following new item:

``2409a. Consideration of contractors with qualified training 
                            programs.''.
    (b) Applicability.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act 
apply with respect to contracts awarded on or after the date that is 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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