Sec. 4. Contracting assistance
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The Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, shall take such actions as may be necessary through competitive processes— to qualify a set of private sector organizations which are capable of providing cybersecurity services to States to secure their election systems and infrastructure from cyber attacks; to establish contract vehicles to enable States to access the services of one or more of such private sector organizations as soon as payments are made under title X of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, as added by section 3; to ensure that such contract vehicles permit individual States to augment Federal funds with funding otherwise available to the States; and to provide a list of qualified organizations to the Election Assistance Commission in order to ensure it is readily available to State election officials.
In this section, the term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands.