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        <dc:title>OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY ACT</dc:title>
        <citableAs>Public Law 93–400, as amended</citableAs>
        <citableAsShortTitle>OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY ACT</citableAsShortTitle>
        <docNumber>400</docNumber>
        <currentThroughPublicLaw>111–350</currentThroughPublicLaw>
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        <dc:creator>United States House of Representatives</dc:creator>
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        <property style="-uslm-dtd:comp-short-title" role="compShortTitle">OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY ACT</property>
        <citationNote style="-uslm-dtd:public-law">[<citableAs>Public Law 93–400</citableAs>]</citationNote>
        <editionNote style="-uslm-dtd:updated-through-note">[As Amended Through <currentThroughPublicLaw>P.L. 111–350</currentThroughPublicLaw>, Enacted <date date="2011-01-04">January 4, 2011</date>]</editionNote>
        <explanationNote style="-uslm-dtd:explanatory-note"><b>[</b>Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 93–400. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/<b>]</b></explanationNote>
        <explanationNote style="-uslm-dtd:explanatory-note"><b>[</b>Note: While this publication does  not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).<b>]</b></explanationNote>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">To establish an Office of Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget, and for other purposes.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s1" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. </heading>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t41/s401">41 U.S.C. 401 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Short Title.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote"><inline style="-uslm-dtd:short-title">Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act</inline></shortTitle>”.</content>
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            <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s1/b" styleType="OLC">
                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Table of Contents.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The table of contents for this Act is as follows:<toc style="-uslm-dtd:toc">
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 1.</designator><label> Short title; table of contents.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="none"><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry"><b>[</b>
Sec. 2. Repealed.
<b>]</b></editorialNote></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="none"><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry"><b>[</b>
Sec. 3. Repealed.
<b>]</b></editorialNote></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 4.</designator><label> Definitions.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 5.</designator><label> Office of Federal Procurement Policy.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 6.</designator><label> Authority and functions of the Administrator.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 7.</designator><label> Administrative powers.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="none"><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry"><b>[</b>
Sec. 8. Repealed.
<b>]</b></editorialNote></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 9.</designator><label> Effect on existing laws.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="none"><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry"><b>[</b>
Sec. 10. Repealed.
<b>]</b></editorialNote></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 11.</designator><label> Authorization of appropriations.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 12.</designator><label> Delegation.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 14.</designator><label> Access to information.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 15.</designator><label> Tests of innovative procurement methods and procedures.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 16.</designator><label> Chief Acquisition Officers and senior procurement executives.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 16A.</designator><label> Chief Acquisition Officers Council.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 18.</designator><label> Procurement notice.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 19.</designator><label> Record requirements.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 20.</designator><label> Advocates for competition.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 21.</designator><label> Rights in technical data.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 22.</designator><label> Publication of proposed regulations.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 23.</designator><label> Contracting functions performed by Federal personnel.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 25.</designator><label> Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 26.</designator><label> Cost Accounting Standards Board.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 27.</designator><label> Restrictions on disclosing and obtaining contractor bid or proposal information or source selection information.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 28.</designator><label> Advocate for the Acquisition of Commercial Products.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 29.</designator><label> Contract clauses and certifications.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 30.</designator><label> Federal acquisition computer network (FACNET).</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 30A.</designator><label> Federal acquisition computer network implementation.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 31.</designator><label> Simplified acquisition procedures.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 32.</designator><label> Procedures applicable to purchases below micro-purchase threshold.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 32A.</designator><label> Special emergency procurement authority.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 33.</designator><label> List of laws inapplicable to contracts not greater than the simplified acquisition threshold in Federal Acquisition Regulation.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 34.</designator><label> List of laws inapplicable to procurements of commercial items in Federal Acquisition Regulation.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 35.</designator><label> Commercially available off-the-shelf item acquisitions: lists of inapplicable laws in Federal Acquisition Regulation.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 35A.</designator><label> Inflation adjustment of acquisition-related dollar thresholds.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 36.</designator><label> Value engineering.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 37.</designator><label> Acquisition workforce.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 38.</designator><label> Modular contracting for information technology.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 39.</designator><label> Levels of compensation of certain contractor personnel not allowable as costs under certain contracts.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 40.</designator><label> Protection of constitutional rights of contractors.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 41.</designator><label> Incentives for efficient performance of services contracts.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>42.</designator><label> Civilian Board of Contract Appeals.<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDBD00254B7C0A470C9497CC0D437D401F" class="footnoteRef">1</ref></label></referenceItem><footnote id="IDBD00254B7C0A470C9497CC0D437D401F" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">1</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">The entry in the table of sections in section 1(b) for the item relating to section 42 probably should include “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Sec.</quotedText>” at the beginning. See amendment made by section 847(f)(2) of Public Law 109–163.</p></footnote>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 43.</designator><label> Public-private competition required before conversion to contractor performance.</label></referenceItem>
                <referenceItem style="-uslm-dtd:toc-entry" role="section"><designator>Sec. 44.</designator><label> Contingency Contracting Corps.</label></referenceItem></toc></content>
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        </section><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s2" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2"><b>[</b>SEC. 2. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s3" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3"><b>[</b>SEC. 3. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Sections 4 through 7 were repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s8" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8"><b>[</b>SEC. 8. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Section 9 was repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s10" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10"><b>[</b>SEC. 10. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Sections 11 and 12 were repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s13" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="13"><b>[</b>SEC. 13. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Sections 14 through 16A were repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s17" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="17"><b>[</b>SEC. 17. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Sections 18 through 23 were repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s24" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="24"><b>[</b>SEC. 24. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Sections 25 through 27 were repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s28" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="28"><b>[</b>SEC. 28. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Sections 29 through 30 were repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:section">
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/93/400/s30A" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="30A"><b>[</b>SEC. 30A. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Repealed.<b>]</b></heading>
        </section></editorialNote><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Sections 31 through 44 were repealed by section 7(b) of Public Law 111–350; 124 Stat. 3855, which provides for the codification of title 41, U.S.C. into positive law.<b>]</b> </editorialNote>
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