[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3465 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3465

 To enhance the services of the Office of Contracts and Procurement at 
the Department of Transportation to assist modal agencies, States, and 
  grant recipients with certain design and procurement practices and 
                               contracts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 2015

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To enhance the services of the Office of Contracts and Procurement at 
the Department of Transportation to assist modal agencies, States, and 
  grant recipients with certain design and procurement practices and 
                               contracts.

    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 ``Public-Private Partnership 
Infrastructure Investment Act''.

SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE WITH PROCUREMENT.

    (a) In General.--The senior procurement executive of the Department 
of Transportation shall enhance the services of the Office of Contracts 
and Procurement by--
            (1) working with modal agencies, States, and other grant 
        recipients on implementing design-bid-build, design-build, and 
        public-private partnerships (P3s) procurement best practices, 
        including model contracts; and
            (2) shall develop suggested best practices to encourage 
        standardizing state P3 authorities and practices, including 
        fair and balanced assumptions made in the calculations, 
        consistency on unsolicited bids, non-compete clauses, and other 
        major elements.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``P3'' 
means contractual agreements formed between a public agency and a 
private sector entity that allow for greater private sector 
participation in the delivery and financing of transportation projects.
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