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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. 116-92

House Conference Report 116-333

(a) In General.--In implementing section 846 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91; 41 U.S.C. 1901 note), the Administrator of General Services shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees, not later than one year after the first contract is awarded pursuant to such section, a cost estimate for the three models for commercial e-commerce portals identified in section 4.1 of ``Procurement Through Commercial E-Commerce Portals Phase II Report: Market Research & Consultation'' issued by the Administrator in April 2019.

(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the following:

(1) The Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives.

(2) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives.

(3) The Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives.

The House amendment contained a provision (sec. 891) that would direct the Administrator of General Services to establish a five-year program to test each of the three models of commercial e-commerce portals before awarding a final contract to a provider.

The Senate bill contained no similar provision.

The Senate recedes with amendments that replace the requirement for a five-year test program with a requirement for cost estimates, and directs that the estimates be submitted within a year after the first contracts are awarded under the program.

In implementing this section, the conferees do not intend to require the Administrator to provide independent government cost estimates, but rather a range of potential costs or a general order of magnitude for each model.

House Report 116-120

Section 891--Requirement to Use Models of Commercial E-Commerce Portal Program

This section would amend section 846 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (41 U.S.C. 1901 note) to require the Administrator of the General Services Administration to establish a 5-year program to pilot three models for commercial e-commerce portals to include an e-commerce model, an e-marketplace model, and an e-procurement model as identified in section 4.1 of ``Procurement Through Commercial E-Commerce Portals Phase II Report: Market Research and Consultation'' issued by the Administrator in April 2019.