United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2004-03-31 monographic deposited born digital 3 p. GA 1.13:GAO-04-447R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R P0b002ee18039124a f:d04447r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R GAO-04-447R Defense procurement Emergency preparedness Federal procurement National preparedness Procurement policy Procurement practices Counterterrorism Homeland security Correspondence A09640

In the wake of September 11, 2001, Congress enacted the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Title VIII, subtitle F, section 852 of the act provided for a temporary set of emergency procurement flexibilities intended to address the immediate needs for procurement of property (other than real property) or services to be used to defend against or recover from terrorist threats, including nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attacks. These flexibilities, which expired on November 24, 2003, included (1) increasing the threshold for simplified acquisition procedures in support of humanitarian, peacekeeping, or contingency operations from $100,000 to $200,000 for contracts awarded and performed within the United States and, for contracts awarded and performed, or purchases to be made outside the United States, to $300,000; (2) increasing the micro-purchase threshold from $2,500 to $7,500 to allow agencies the use of purchase cards above the current limit; (3) waiving certain provisions of law and the dollar threshold related to commercial item procurements; and (4) requiring the head of an agency, when appropriate, to use streamlined acquisition authorities and procedures authorized by law for a procurement referred to in section 852. Section 852 of the Homeland Security Act directed us to report no later than March 31, 2004, on the extent to which federal agencies have used the flexibilities. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R.pdf GAO-04-447R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-447R Correspondence GAO-04-447R; Agencies' Use of Procurement Flexibilities Provided in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296); Defense procurement Emergency preparedness Federal procurement National preparedness Procurement policy Procurement practices Counterterrorism Homeland security Title 15 Section 637 Title 15 Section 657a(b)(2)(A) 15 U.S.C. 637 15 U.S.C. 657a(b)(2)(A) Public Law 107-296