US Congress House Bill 679 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 24 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-29 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 39.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act of 2017 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the design-build selection procedures used by federal agencies soliciting offers to enter into civilian contracts for the design and construction of a public building, facility, or work. Two-phase selection procedures (i.e., submission of qualifications and then the submission of price and technical proposals in response to a request for proposal) must be used if a contracting officer determines that a project has a value of $3 million or greater. But for contracts valued at less than $3 million, the contracting officer makes the same determination under current law as to whether the use of two-phase selection procedures is appropriate if the officer anticipates at least three offers for the contract. Federal agencies must report to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), each year over a five-year period, on each instance where the agency awarded a design-build contract in which: (1) more than five finalists were selected for phase-two requests for proposals, or (2) the contract or order was awarded without using two-phase selection procedures. The OMB must compile and submit such reports to the Government Accountability Office, which must issue a report analyzing such reports and agency compliance with design-build contract procedures. (Sec. 4) The Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be amended to prohibit the use of reverse auctions as part of the two-phase selection procedures for awarding contracts for construction and design services. A "reverse auction," with respect to any procurement by an executive agency, is: (1) a real-time auction conducted through an electronic medium among at least two offerors who compete by submitting bids for a supply or service contract, or a delivery order, task order, or purchase order under the contract, with the ability to submit revised lower bids before the closing of the auction; and (2) the award of the contract, delivery order, task order, or purchase order to the offeror based on the price obtained through the auction process.

Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act of 2017

Rep. Mark Meadows [R-NC]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]	Rep. Steve Russell [R-OK]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]
Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-29	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 39.
2017-03-29	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 115-68.
2017-02-02	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
2017-02-02	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2017-01-24	House	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
2017-01-24	House	Introduced in House

SB2113 (Related) 2018-04-18 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 382.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/679/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr679/BILLS-115hr679ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr679/BILLS-115hr679rh.pdf