[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S4057]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1994. Mrs. McCASKILL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 
1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 419, strike line 23 and all that follows 
     through page 420, line 3 and insert the following:
       (2) establish a process by which the contractor may appeal 
     a determination by a contracting officer that an earlier 
     determination was made in error or was based on inadequate 
     information to the head of contracting for the agency; and
       (3) establish a process by which a commercial item 
     determination can be revoked by the head of the contracting 
     activity in cases where the contracting officer is no longer 
     able to make an assessment that the prior determination is 
     appropriate and still applicable based on market research and 
     value-based pricing analysis that demonstrates that the 
     Department of Defense would pay more for the item than it had 
     previously or another source could provide a similar item for 
     a lower price.
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