Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/41/1705
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U.S. Code › Title 41 › Subtitle I › Division B › Chapter 17 › § 1705 41 U.S. Code § 1705 - Advocates for competition
§ 1705.
(a) Establishment and Designation.—
Each executive agency has an advocate for competition.
(2)Designation.—The head of each executive agency shall—
designate for the executive agency and for each procuring activity of the executive agency one officer or employee serving in a position authorized for the executive agency on July 18, 1984 (other than the senior procurement executive designated pursuant to section 1702(c) of this title) to serve as the advocate for competition;
(b)Duties and Functions.—The advocate for competition of an executive agency shall—
(3) identify and report to the senior procurement executive of the executive agency—
(4) prepare and transmit to the senior procurement executive an annual report describing—
(5) recommend to the senior procurement executive—
(c)Responsibilities.—
The advocate for competition for each procuring activity is responsible for promoting full and open competition, promoting the acquisition of commercial items, and challenging barriers to acquisition, including unnecessarily restrictive statements of need, unnecessarily detailed specifications, and unnecessarily burdensome contract clauses.
(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3709.)
Pub. L. 93–400, § 20, as added Pub. L. 98–369, title VII, § 2732(a), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1197; Pub. L. 103–355, title VIII, § 8303(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3398.