Sec. 2875. Limitation on use of funds for preparation for renewal of certain project of the Department of the Air Force
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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 may be used to prepare for the renewal of the HVAC chiller replacement standardization project of the Department of the Air Force until the date on which the Secretary of the Air Force submits to the congressional defense committees the certification described in subsection (b). The certification described in the subsection is a certification that— such Secretary has developed a methodology to compare the cost of initial chiller and ancillary equipment procurement under the class justification and authorization for other than full and open competition to the cost of initial chiller and ancillary equipment procurement with competition; metrics have been established to measure performance under the project described in subsection (a), including training costs, savings from in-house repair, and value per dollar, initial chiller and ancillary equipment procurement costs, overall technician education and training costs, and lifecycle operating costs; and such Secretary has collected data to demonstrate that limiting competition under the project described in subsection
(a)has resulted in total cost of ownership savings.