[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2750 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2750

To amend title 41, United States Code, to require the use of two-phase 
selection procedures when design-build contracts are suitable for award 
          to small business concerns, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2013

 Mr. Graves of Missouri (for himself, Ms. Herrera Beutler, Mr. Hanna, 
 Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Meadows, and Ms. Meng) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 41, United States Code, to require the use of two-phase 
selection procedures when design-build contracts are suitable for award 
          to small business concerns, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act 
of 2013''.

SEC. 2. DESIGN-BUILD SELECTION PROCEDURES.

    Section 3309 of title 41, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d) by striking ``agency determines with 
        respect to'' and all that follows through the period at the 
        end, and inserting the following: ``the head of the agency 
        approves the contracting officer's justification that an 
        individual solicitation must have greater than 5 finalists to 
        be in the Federal Government's interest. The contracting 
        officer must provide written documentation of how a maximum 
        number of offerors exceeding 5 is consistent with the purposes 
        and objectives of the two-phase selection process.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Design and Construction Contracts.--Two-phase selection 
procedures shall be used for entering into a contract for the design 
and construction of a public building, facility, or work when a 
contracting officer determines that the contract has a value of 
$750,000 or greater, as adjusted for inflation in accordance with 
section 1908 of title 41, United States Code.
    ``(g) Reports.--
            ``(1) Agency reports.--Beginning on the date that is 1 year 
        after the effective date of this subsection, and for each of 
        the 4 years thereafter, each agency shall submit to the 
        Comptroller General of the United States and publish in the 
        Federal Register, an annual report regarding all cases in the 
        preceding year in which--
                    ``(A) more than 5 finalists were selected for 
                phase-two requests for competitive proposals; or
                    ``(B) for a contract that has a value of $750,000 
                (as adjusted for inflation in accordance with section 
                1908 of title 41, United States Code) or greater for 
                which the two-phase selection procedures was not used.
            ``(2) GAO report.--On the first full fiscal year that is 5 
        years after the effective date of this subsection, the 
        Comptroller General of the United States shall publish a report 
        that, based on the information provided in the agency reports 
        required under paragraph (1), analyzes the degree to which 
        agencies have complied with the requirements of this 
        section.''.
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