To amend title 10, United States Code, to require cost or price to the Federal Government be given at least equal importance as technical or other criteria in evaluating competitive proposals for defense contracts.

Bill: 113-hr-3844
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2014-01-10
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Congressional oversight

Department of Defense

Military procurement, research, weapons development
Latest action: action_date: 2014-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-01-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Requires that, in the evaluation of competitive proposals for defense contracts, cost or price to the government be given at least equal importance as all other evaluation factors combined. Allows the waiver of such requirement by the agency head concerned. Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to submit to Congress, and post publicly, a report on each waiver issued.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3844 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 10, 2014 Mr. Grayson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to require cost or price to the Federal Government be given at least equal importance as technical or other criteria in evaluating competitive proposals for defense contracts.

1. Requirement that cost or price to the Federal Government be given at least equal importance as technical or other criteria in evaluating competitive proposals for defense contracts (a) Requirement Subparagraph (A) of section 2305(a)(3) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking proposals; and at the end of clause (ii) and all that follows through the end of the subparagraph and inserting the following: proposals and that must be assigned importance at least equal to all evaluation factors other than cost or price when combined. . (b) Waiver Section 2305(a)(3) of such title is further amended by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following: (B) The requirement of subparagraph (A)(ii) relating to assigning at least equal importance to evaluation factors of cost or price may be waived by the head of the agency. . (c) Report Section 2305(a)(3) of such title is further amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (C) Not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress, and post on a publicly available website of the Department of Defense, a report containing a list of each waiver issued by the head of an agency under subparagraph (B) during the preceding fiscal year. .