To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes.

Requires the head of a U.S. executive agency that enters into a contract for the repair, maintenance, or construction of infrastructure in Iraq without full and open competition to publish in the Federal Register or Commerce Business Daily and otherwise make available to the public within 30 days after the contract is entered into: (1) the amount of the contract; (2) a brief description of its scope; (3) a discussion of how the agency identified, and solicited offers from, potential contractors to perform the contract, together with a list of the potential contractors that were issued solicitations for the offers; and (4) the justification and approval documents on which was based the determination to use procedures other than procedures that provide for full and open competition.

Authorizes an agency head to: (1) withhold from such publication and disclosure any document classified for restricted access in accordance with an Executive order in the interest of national defense or foreign policy; and (2) redact any part so classified in a document not so classified before publication and disclosure of the document. Requires the agency head to make available an unredacted version of such a document to the chairman and ranking member of specified congressional committees.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1888 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1888

  To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the 
 reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 2003

 Mr. Kleczka introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the 
 reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF NONCOMPETITIVE CONTRACTING FOR THE 
              RECONSTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN IRAQ.

    (a) Disclosure Required.--The head of an executive agency of the 
United States that enters into a contract for the repair, maintenance, 
or construction of infrastructure in Iraq without full and open 
competition shall publish in the Federal Register or Commerce Business 
Daily and otherwise make available to the public, not later than 30 
days after the date on which the contract is entered into, the 
following information:
            (1) The amount of the contract.
            (2) A brief description of the scope of the contract.
            (3) A discussion of how the executive agency identified, 
        and solicited offers from, potential contractors to perform the 
        contract, together with a list of the potential contractors 
        that were issued solicitations for the offers.
            (4) The justification and approval documents on which was 
        based the determination to use procedures other than procedures 
        that provide for full and open competition.
    (b) Classified Information.--
            (1) Authority to withhold.--The head of an executive agency 
        may--
                    (A) withhold from publication and disclosure under 
                subsection (a) any document that is classified for 
                restricted access in accordance with an Executive order 
                in the interest of national defense or foreign policy; 
                and
                    (B) redact any part so classified that is in a 
                document not so classified before publication and 
                disclosure of the document under subsection (a).
            (2) Availability to congress.--In any case in which the 
        head of an executive agency withholds information under 
        paragraph (1), the head of such executive agency shall make 
        available an unredacted version of the document containing that 
        information to the chairman and ranking member of each of the 
        following committees of Congress:
                    (A) The Committee on Governmental Affairs of the 
                Senate.
                    (B) The Committee on Government Reform of the House 
                of Representatives.
                    (C) Each committee that the head of the executive 
                agency determines has legislative jurisdiction for the 
                operations of such department or agency to which the 
                information relates.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``executive agency'' 
and ``full and open competition'' have the meanings given such terms in 
section 4 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 
403).
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