Bill > HR1666

Introduced Session

Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act of 2015 Modifies criteria for the use of design-build selection procedures for civilian and defense contracts for the design and construction of a public building, facility, or work. Requires the use of 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) when a contracting officer determines that such a contract has a value of $750,000 or greater. Maintains current criteria for these contracts if a contracting officer determines that they have a value of less than $750,000. Requires the contracting officer to provide written documentation of how more than five finalists in a solicitation for a contract is consistent with the purposes and objectives of the two-phase selection procedures. Requires: (1) executive agencies to report on contracts for which more than five finalists were selected for phase-two requests or for which the contract was awarded without using two-phase selection procedures, and (2) the Government Accountability Office to report on the compliance of such agencies with design-build contract procedures.

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Sam Graves (R)*,  Mo Brooks (R),  Matt Cartwright (D),  Mike Coffman (R),  Scott DesJarlais (R),  Tammy Duckworth (D),  Blake Farenthold (R),  Glenn Grothman (R),  Richard Hanna (R),  Gregg Harper (R),  Jaime Herrera Beutler (R),  Mick Mulvaney (R),  Steven Palazzo (R),  Erik Paulsen (R),  Collin Peterson (D),  Dennis Ross (R),  Kurt Schrader (D),  Patrick Tiberi (R),  Scott Tipton (R),  Marc Veasey (D),  Daniel Webster (R),  Peter Welch (D),  Ted Yoho (R), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness. (on 08/13/2015)

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