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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2943 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 816

Sec. 816. Modified restrictions on undefinitized contractual actions

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Section 2326 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: Any undefinitized contract shall be awarded on a fixed-price level of effort basis. ; by redesignating subsections
(f)and
(g)as subsections
(h)and (i), respectively; by inserting after subsection
(e)the following new subsections: No undefinitized contractual action may extend beyond 90-days without a written determination by the Secretary of the military department or head of a Defense Agency that it is in the best interests of the military department or Defense Agency to continue the action. Except as provided in paragraph (2), a contracting officer of the Department of Defense may not enter into an undefinitized contractual action for a foreign military sale unless the contractual action provides for agreement upon contractual terms, specifications, and price by the end of the 180-day period described in subsection (b)(1)(A). The requirement under paragraph
(1)may be waived in accordance with subsection (b)(4). ; and in subsection (i)(1), as redesignated by paragraph (2)— by striking subparagraph (A); and by redesignating subparagraphs (B), (C), and
(D)as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively.
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