use of competitive selection procedures

use of competitive selection procedures Sec. 501. Section 601 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: “(e) (1) The Congress finds that significantly greater effort must be made in carrying out programs under part I of this Act to award contracts on the basis of competitive selection procedures. All such contracts should be let on the basis of competitive selection procedures except in those limited cases in which the procurement regulations governing the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of this Act allow noncompetitive procedures to be used. “(2) In order to provide the Congress with information to assist it in assessing the efforts of the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of this Act to make the maximum possible use of competitive selection procedures, the Administrator of that agency— “(A) when submitting the congressional presentation materials for developing assistance for fiscal year 1980, shall also submit to the Congress a report identifying and describing each contract92 STAT. 957 in an amount in excess of $100,000 which the agency entered into without competitive selection procedures during the period April 1, 1978, to September 30, 1978, and explaining why each such contract was not the subject of competitive selection procedures; and “(B) when submitting the congressional presentation materials for development assistance for fiscal year 1981, shall also submit to the Congress a report identifying and describing each contract in an amount in excess of $100,000 which the agency entered into without competitive selection procedures during the fiscal year 1979 and explaining why each such contract was not the subject of competitive selection procedures.”.