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TITLE VIII--ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED MATTERS

Subtitle B--Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations

P. L. 112-81

House Conference Report 112-329

Paragraph (3) of section 4106(f) of title 41, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

`(3) EFFECTIVE PERIOD- Paragraph (1)(B) and paragraph (2) of this subsection shall not be in effect after September 30, 2016.'.

The House bill contained a provision (sec. 813) that would extend the sunset date for certain protests of task and delivery order contracts.

The Senate amendment contained no similar provision.

The Senate recedes.

House Report 112-078

This section would amend section 4106(f) of title 41, United States Code, to extend the sunset date to September 20, 2016. The committee is aware that section 843 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181) temporarily expanded the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) jurisdiction to hear bid protests by authorizing it to hear protests on task and delivery orders valued in excess of $10.0 million. The authority was provided with a sunset in 2011 in order to allow Congress to evaluate the effectiveness of the expanded jurisdiction and gauge the impact of increased workload on GAO. Section 825 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011 (Public Law 111-383) extended the sunset date for bid protests on task and delivery orders for defense acquisitions until September 30, 2016. However, section 825 did not address civilian agency acquisitions.