[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 19, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4097]
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SA 773. Mr. PERDUE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 subtitle A of title VIII, add the following:
SEC. 811. REQUIREMENT TO USE MODELS OF COMMERCIAL E-COMMERCE
PORTAL PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Before the award of a final contract to a
commercial e-commerce portal provider pursuant to section 846
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2018 (Public Law 115-91; 41 U.S.C. 1901 note), the
Administrator of General Services shall establish a five-year
program to test the three models for commercial e-commerce
portals identified in section 4.1 of ``Procurement Through
Commercial E-Commerce Portals Phase II Report: Market
Research & Consultation'' issued by the Administrator in
April 2019.
(b) Analysis.--The Administrator shall conduct an analysis
of the use of the three models described in subsection (a) to
determine which model is the most effective for procurement
through commercial e-commerce portals.
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