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GAO-15-253R 1 (2014-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaint0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 December 18, 2014 The Honorable Dianne Feinstein Chairman The Honorable Lamar Alexander Ranking Member Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable Mike Simpson Chairman The Honorable Marcy Kaptur Ranking Member Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Electronic Submissions in Federal Procurement: Implementation by the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation In November 1997, Congress enacted legislation requiring the head of each executive agency to establish, maintain, and use procedures and processes that employ electronic commerce in the conduct and administration of its procurement system. The statute and a related regulation1 allow agencies flexibility in the extent to which procurement activities should be automated, but require, among other things, that the systems and technologies established for electronic commerce be implemented uniformly throughout the agency to the maximum extent practicable, and implemented only after considering the full or partial use of existing infrastructure. More recently, the House Committee on Appropriations report accompanying the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2014 required GAO to review the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) and the Department of the Interior's (Interior) Bureau of Reclamation's (Bureau) implementation of this statutory requirement, as it relates to the use of electronic submissions in federal procurement. Accordingly, our objective was to describe how the Corps and Bureau provide for the use of electronic submissions in their procurement processes and determine whether their approach is consistent with relevant requirements of the statute. To do so, we analyzed documentation 'National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998, Pub. L. No. 105-85, § 850 (Nov. 18, 1997). This statute defines the term 'electronic commerce' as electronic techniques for accomplishing business transactions, including e- mail or messaging, electronic funds transfer, and electronic data interexchange, among others. It is now codified primarily at 41 U.S.C § 2301 and implemented at subpart 4.5 of the FederalAcquisition Regulation (FAR). The FAR also addresses use of electronic commerce for different contracting methods: 48 C.F.R. §§ 13.003(f) (simplified acquisitions), 14.202-8 (sealed bidding), and 15.203(c) (negotiation). GAO-1 5-253R Electronic Contract Submissions Page 1

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