[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 149 (Thursday, September 14, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5767]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1083. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) 
to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 
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:

       At the end of section 821, add the following:
       (c) Government Accountability Office Report on Frivolous 
     Bid Protest Standard.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
     United States shall submit to Congress a report explaining 
     how the Government Accountability Office interprets and 
     implements subparagraph (A) of section 2340(a)(2) of title 
     10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), and, if 
     warranted, providing recommendations on how to amend the 
     frivolous protest standard defined pursuant to such 
     subparagraph to make sure all relevant qualitative and 
     quantitative factors are taken into account.
                                 ______