[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 127 (Monday, July 20, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4294]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2459. Mr. PERDUE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 847. REQUIREMENT TO AWARD CONTRACTS UNDER COMMERCIAL E-
                   COMMERCE PORTAL PROGRAM.

       (a) Accelerated Awarding of Contracts.--Section 846(a) of 
     the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 
     (Public Law 115-91; 41 U.S.C. 1901 note) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following: ``Not later than July 31, 2021, the 
     Administrator shall award contracts under the program to not 
     fewer than 10 commercial providers, including both e-
     marketplace providers that do not sell their own products on 
     their platforms and e-commerce providers. The Administrator 
     may waive the requirement in the preceding sentence for up to 
     30 days at a time upon submitting to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a certification that compliance with 
     such requirement is not feasible, including a description of 
     efforts to comply with such requirement and an explanation 
     why, despite such efforts, compliance is not feasible.''.
       (b) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than March 31, 2021, the 
     Administrator of General Services shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report describing how 
     the General Services Administration will implement paragraph 
     (3) of section 846(h) of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91; 41 U.S.C. 1901 
     note), as added by section 838(a)(2) of the John S. McCain 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 
     (Public Law 115-232; 132 Stat. 1876).
       (2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee 
     on Appropriations of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Oversight and Reform, and the Committee on Appropriations of 
     the House of Representatives.
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